Danang is striving to become the nation’s first e-city by 2020, said Pham Kim Son, director of the Danang Department of Information and Communications.
An e-city is where information and communication technology (ICT) is applied in the city’s operations such as providing public and medical services, and controlling transport.
For Danang to realize its dream it has chosen ICT as a base and penetration measure.
The city has been involved in building a connecting base such as an establishment of e-administration consistent with requirements of modern management, using ICT measures to manage resources, supervising and handling environmental pollution smartly, towards also becoming an environmentally-friendly city by 2020.
Danang is the major city in central Vietnam’s key economic region. The city has gained outstanding socio-economic achievements, in particular, in upgrading and developing urban infrastructure in the last 15 years.
In 2008-2010, Danang was the top performing province in the country’s Provincial Competitiveness Index.
However, Danang has faced many challenges in the process of urbanization. To overcome the challenges, the city has researched and learned from some global advanced models, including a model of developing a sustainable ecological city, called Eco2Cities proposed by the World Bank.
