Replace meeting invitations with paper, save 20 billion each year

Meeting invitations sent by email, online meetings... are one of the reforms of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Office that saves more than 20 billion VND and travel time each year - Photo: TU TRUNG

This amount includes paper money, packaging, printing, express delivery and salaries for employees who write, type, and seal envelopes... according to Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Tran Vinh Tuyen.

Mr. Tuyen said this in the program.Multidimensional perspectiveOrganized by VTV9 channel of Vietnam Television on the topic of building smart cities.

According to Mr. Tuyen, not only does it save costs, sending meeting invitations via email is also faster, more convenient and more effective, especially in cases of unexpected meetings, and saves costs for both parties.people and government agencies, according to Mr. Tuyen.

Vice Chairman Tran Vinh Tuyen said that the "bottlenecks" that Ho Chi Minh City is facing such as flooding, traffic jams, etc. are expected to be resolved when implementing the construction of smart cities.

In the immediate future, Mr. Tuyen said the city will prioritize building a shared data warehouse and developing an open data ecosystem, which is considered to beprerequisite for successful implementation of smart city operations center.

This center is where all the city's daily information and data sources in all areas are exploited, helping to handle situations and helping leaders at all levels to operate their work.

Along with that, banother center includesThe center for simulation research and forecasting to build socio-economic development strategies, the smart operations center and the information security center will also be built in 2018.