Sci-Tech

Politburo Resolution 57 identifies science and technology, innovation and digital transformation as strategic breakthroughs and key drivers for developing modern productive forces, renewing the growth model and improving labour productivity.

Viet Nam is facing growing challenges in ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products, particularly key export fruits such as mangoes and dragon fruit. Increasingly stringent requirements for controlling chemical residues and heavy metals in agricultural exports are compelling producers to adopt advanced technologies to assess product quality, including artificial intelligence (AI).

The Prime Minister has issued Decision No. 1308/QD-TTg approving the National Data Strategy for the 2026–2030 period, with a vision to 2045.

More than 30 scientists, young researchers, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from 12 countries are attending the second Advanced School on Topological Quantum Matters, which opened in Gia Lai province on July 20.

Winners of the Viet Nam AI Innovation Challenge (VAIC 2026) were honoured at a ceremony in Ha Noi on July 17, following a 48‑hour hackathon.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly integrated into everyday life, from education and healthcare to media and public administration, serving as a powerful tool to improve productivity and the quality of services. However, alongside its significant benefits, AI also raises important questions about responsibility, transparency, privacy, fairness, and the ethical boundaries surrounding its development and application.

Speaking at a national conference reviewing 18 months of implementing Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, General Secretary and State President To Lam reaffirmed that science and technology, innovation and digital transformation are the primary drivers of Viet Nam's new development and growth model.

After a year and a half of implementing Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, science and technology, innovation and digital transformation have been placed at the centre of the new growth model. The next stage requires a sharper focus on delivering results, with a decisive shift from building mechanisms to creating products; from completing tasks to generating value; and from preparing conditions to making direct contributions to national development.

Prime Minister Le Minh Hung has issued a directive urging ministries, agencies and localities to accelerate the implementation of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation tasks in 2026 and ensure full disbursement of allocated funding by year-end.

Viet Nam has officially broken into the global Top 50 startup ecosystems for the first time marks a new stage in the country’s innovation journey. Yet the next benchmark will not be sheer numbers of startups, but the capacity to build firms that master core technologies and generate fresh competitive value for the economy.

The National Commission for Standards, Metrology and Quality (STAMEQ), in collaboration with Griffith University (Australia), held an international workshop themed “Expanding market opportunities for Vietnamese agricultural products by applying digital platforms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in certification and traceability” in Ha Noi on July 17, introducing new approaches to enhance the competitiveness of Vietnamese agricultural products.

Over the past 18 months of implementation, the Politburo’s Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, dated December 22, 2024, had catalysed profound shifts in both awareness and action across the entire political system; institutions, mechanisms, and policies have been systematically refined; many bottlenecks and obstacles have been dismantled; and a number of new mechanisms have been established to accelerate the development of science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation.

In the digital age, data has become a strategic resource that underpins the digital economy, a nation’s competitiveness and the stability of society. Unsurprisingly, it has become a prime target for cybercriminals intent on manipulating behaviour, diverting financial flows, undermining public trust and eroding digital sovereignty.

The rapid cross-border growth of e-commerce and the digital economy, together with the increasing number of free trade agreements (FTAs), particularly new-generation FTAs, empowers Vietnamese individuals and organisations to expand their operations into international markets.

Communication in science is an essential intermediary step that transforms academic language into accessible, everyday language, enabling citizens of all backgrounds to engage with research findings, understand them and apply them in practice.

Cultivating a highly skilled workforce in the fields of basic sciences, key engineering disciplines, and strategic technologies has emerged as an urgent national priority.

The Government has issued Resolution No. 66.22/2026/NQ-CP on digital citizen development, officially designating October 15 each year as Viet Nam Digital Citizen Day.

In an era of development driven by science, technology, and innovation, there is an urgent need to build a legal system that truly enables development, in which institutions are no longer bottlenecks but become a driving force for unlocking all resources and inspiring and maximising the creative potential of the Vietnamese people.

Watching films on free websites, downloading e-books or using unlicensed software were once common practices. As science-technology, innovation and the digital economy become drivers of national development, awareness of the value of intellectual property is also changing.

In recent years, numerous major directives and policies from the Party and State have affirmed a fundamental shift from a traditional development model to a sustainable one based on science, technology, innovation and digital transformation. Yet, for these to truly become the central drivers of economic growth, further measures are required to translate directives, policies and laws into practice.