What is a digital platform and how to understand Make in Vietnam?

'Make in Viet Nam Digital Technology Products' is a prestigious national award in the field of digital technology. Photo: mic.gov.vn

What is a digital platform?

Digital platform is the next step of information system development, which is the factor that creates the fundamental difference between information technology application and digital transformation. Digital platform has the ability to immediately meet the needs of users as a service, like electricity service, like water service and the more users, the cheaper the cost.

Example of a commune-level digital transformation platform. Instead of developing 11,000 software for 11,000 communes nationwide, using a common platform for 11,000 communes will shorten deployment time and optimize costs.

How to use the platform for digital transformation?

Using digital platforms is identified as a breakthrough solution to promote faster digital transformation, reduce costs, and increase efficiency. The platforms are created by excellent digital technology businesses, allowing agencies, organizations, and individuals to use them immediately as services instead of having to invest and operate them themselves.

For example, Vietnam has thousands of newspapers and magazines. If each of these agencies had to invest in a digital platform like the New York Times mentioned above, it would be very costly. Many agencies do not have enough resources, both financial and human, to invest. But if there is a platform available for press agencies to go on, reach readers, and access advertising, thousands of press agencies can switch to a digital environment very quickly.

Similarly, if MISA, a digital technology company specializing in accounting software, invests in developing a platform so that professional accountants can provide accounting services to businesses, to provide accounting services to micro-enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, the digital transformation of accounting for businesses will take place very quickly. At the same time, it also stimulates business households to switch to enterprises, because they do not have to hire accountants, which is very difficult, especially in rural, remote and isolated areas.

How to understand Make in Vietnam?

Make in Vietnam means designing in Vietnam, making products in Vietnam. Calling for a shift from assembly and processing to making Vietnamese products. Without making products, Vietnam cannot be strong and prosperous.

Vietnam has Vietnamese 5G devices, Vietnamese social networks, Vietnamese cybersecurity and safety products, and a lot of Vietnamese software.

To promote Make in Vietnam, everyone from the government to businesses and people should bring the problems and issues of the country and society to the Vietnamese digital technology business community so that they can participate in solving them.