After one year of implementing the resolution, science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation have achieved a number of important initial results. In the spirit of the resolution, the National Assembly and the Government have acted in a coordinated, urgent, and decisive manner. The National Assembly promulgated Resolution No. 193/2025/QH15, while the Government issued Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW to concretise the action programme for implementing Resolution No. 57, thereby establishing a comprehensive and coherent legal framework and ensuring feasibility in implementation. The Government submitted 27 related draft laws to the National Assembly, along with numerous decrees and circulars guiding implementation.
Alongside institutional improvements, the system of leadership and administration from the central to local levels has been fully and uniformly established. Leadership, direction, and administration by the Central Steering Committee for the Development of Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation have been carried out resolutely, continuously, and with clear priorities. The figure of 1,298 tasks assigned by the Government to ministries, sectors, and localities demonstrates the scale, scope, and breadth of direction across multiple fields and levels.
Digital transformation in Viet Nam has truly accelerated, with clear results reflected in global rankings: telecommunications infrastructure ranked 67th, internet speed ranked 18th, e-government ranked 71st, and information security ranked 17th. The digital economy grew by 8.6%, while revenue in the ICT industry increased by 26%. Viet Nam’s Human Development Index (HDI) in 2025 reached 0.766, ranking 93rd out of 193 countries.
Digital transformation in Viet Nam has truly accelerated, with clear results reflected in global rankings: telecommunications infrastructure ranked 67th, internet speed ranked 18th, e-government ranked 71st, and information security ranked 17th. The digital economy grew by 8.6%, while revenue in the ICT industry increased by 26%. Viet Nam’s Human Development Index (HDI) in 2025 reached 0.766, ranking 93rd out of 193 countries.
Viet Nam’s innovation standing continued to improve, ranking 44th out of 139 countries and leading the group of lower-middle-income economies. Nationwide, there are around 4,000 innovative start-ups, including two technology unicorns. Digital transformation and innovation have genuinely spread widely across ministries, sectors, and localities.
Alongside these positive results, shortcomings and limitations remain, such as institutional gaps during the transition period, uneven progress and quality of implementation, insufficient proactiveness in some places, and limitations in administrative procedures and data interoperability. From practice, many lessons have been drawn, notably the pivotal role of unified and decisive leadership and direction by the Party and the State; placing people and enterprises at the centre; synchronised implementation from institutions to infrastructure, data, and human resources; linking responsibility to heads of agencies; and ensuring the principle of “six clarities” — clear persons, clear tasks, clear timelines, clear responsibilities, clear outputs, and clear authority — in implementation.
One of the key factors determining the success of the resolution is the dissemination of development aspirations, transforming aspirations into awareness and action by every individual and organisation. The aspiration for a digital nation must not remain confined to the public sector but must permeate deeply into the private sector, fostering a sense of national responsibility within each enterprise.
Resolution No. 57 has unlocked the flow of intellectual resources, digital trust has been established, and the shape of a digital nation has begun to take form. However, for Viet Nam to achieve a true breakthrough, it must continue to be steadfast in adhering to its strategic objectives, strengthen collective efforts, and act with even greater determination. When the aspiration for breakthrough becomes a shared driving force, and when every citizen truly experiences the value of digital transformation in daily life, Viet Nam will undoubtedly create a new miracle.
