April 05, 2017 | 22:48 (GMT+7)
VNPT assists Binh Duong in building smart city
PANO - The Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) and the Binh Duong provincial People’s Committee on April 4 signed a cooperation agreement on building the province into a smart city.
Under the agreement, the VNPT will work with the province’s relevant units to carry out the approved architectural plan, which should ensure the flexible application of domestic and international technological units’ measures for a smart city. The group will also contribute some measures to further improve the plan. Meanwhile, the locality will instruct local agencies to create favorable conditions for the VNPT to effectively fulfill its task.
Addressing the signing ceremony, the group’s General Director Pham Duc Long expressed the honor to be part of the plan and promised that the business would boost the construction of infrastructure to turn the province into a real smart city.
Until now, the group has reached cooperation agreements on telecommunications and information technology with 55 out of 63 provinces and cities across the country to strengthen the sector in general and localities’ in particular.
The same day, the group and Thu Dau Mot University inked a cooperation agreement in training, manpower supply, scientific research, and application of telecoms and information technology services.
Translated by Tran Hoai