Viet Nam’s Hanel DTT Technology Joint Stock Company signed a
cooperation agreement with Sundrew Myanmar Company to build an open
e-government platform (OEP) based on open source technologies in
Myanmar.
The ceremony for the signing of the agreement was held at a Viet
Nam-Myanmar business matching session in Yangon, Myanmar, on Wednesday.
The two sides have agreed to share their resources to implement
e-government projects in Southeast Asia, and work in
government-to-government (G2G) systems on the projects.
They will also exchange information, experience, technology and
experts to build OEP communities in order to expand OEP functions and
carry out projects of the two countries.
The agreement marks an advance in bringing Vietnamese technology into the world.
OEP has been carried out in Da Nang City, Ha Noi City and in the
fourth level of public healthcare services of the Ministry of Health.
The OEP 1.1 version is expected to be released at the end of 2014, with
basic functions meeting the demands of authorities for managing citizens
and exchanging data with other cities and ministries.
The OEP 2.0 version will be launched in 2015 with improved functions
to support technologies such as cloud computing, mobility and big data.
DTT has been providing solutions for e-government and enterprise
integration for enterprises and organisations in Viet Nam. Its parent
firm, Hanel Limited Company, which was established in 1984, focuses on
different fields including electronics, computers and telecom; real
estate and financial management; and building infrastructure for hi-tech
parks.
Earlier, VNPT International, a member company of the Viet Nam Posts
and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), inaugurated its first
representative office in Yangon on Tuesday.
At the opening ceremony, member companies of VNPT signed memorandums
of understanding (MoUs) with Burmese telecom enterprises. According to
the MoUs, VNPT-I will continue to cooperate with its partner, the A1
Construction Company Ltd, to implement telecom and software products and
IT solutions.
VINASAT centre, under the management of VNPT’s subsidiary Viet Nam
Telecom International (VTI), will provide satellite bands for the
Myanmar Ministry of Defence.
VNPT and the Elite Telecom Public Company Limited will also survey
the market and set up a plan to establish a joint venture to provide
Internet services there.
In a meeting with Viet Nam’s Minister of Information and
Communications Nguyen Bac Son on Monday in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
President Thein Sein said that Viet Nam and Myanmar had signed an
agreement to cooperate with each other in 12 fields, including telecom
and IT. He added that Myanmar would focus on investing in the two
above-mentioned sectors in the near future, and affirmed that the
country would help Vietnamese enterprises in all fields, especially in
telecom and IT, to learn about the Burmese market to enhance
co-operation.
Myanmar is considered to be an emerging telecom market. At the end of
2012, only 5.4 million of its 60 million people, equivalent to nine per
cent, owned mobile phones, compared to 70 per cent in Cambodia, 87 per
cent in Laos and 100 per cent in Thailand. The government of Myanmar
aims to increase the number of mobile phone users to 75 to 80 per cent
by 2016.
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