Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Duy Dong

Speaking at an event to launch the documents, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Duy Dong said that the yellow pages would provide useful information for businesses to look for and choose appropriate digital transformation solutions to save costs and time for businesses.

"This is the first time this publication has been released. The MPI will continue to coordinate with the Ministry of Information and Communications, relevant ministries, agencies, and associations to continue reviewing and updating useful solutions," said Dong. "This database is also the foundation information for the activities in the next phase of the programme, which will focus on in-depth guidance, provide support to businesses to apply digital transformation solutions with support from the state budget and other legal social resources."

Trevor Hublin, deputy director, USAID in Vietnam's Office of Governance and Economic Growth said, "The Yellow Pages of Digital Transformation Providers is not only a list of solution providers, but they have also committed to accompany the programme, offering the most favourable solutions for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)."

“Therefore, SMEs across the country can easily find out the solution providers matching the requirements of their business. This is a prime example of sustainable solutions that the MPI together with USAID and the private sector support SMEs in their digital transformation journey,” said Hublin.

Launching and matchmaking of Yellow Pages of Digital Transformation Providers

According to the MPI's Agency for Enterprises Development, to build the "Yellow Pages of Digital Transformation Providers," independent experts considered, classified and selected 40 businesses that were providing popular digital transformation solutions, suitable for business activities, especially SMEs, and then conducted a direct appraisal for each solution.

Four professional groups of digital transformation solutions are highlighted in the publication: general solutions for many fields and industries (56 per cent); a production solutions group (14 per cent); group of solutions for infrastructure and information management (10 per cent), and a group of specific solutions (20 per cent) for healthcare, petroleum, transportation and logistics, and traceability.

Under technical support from the USAID through the LinkSME project, the programme has been widely deployed nationwide and has been appreciated by the business community.

There have been more than 2 million visits to technical support on digital readiness assessment, and digital transformation manuals.

Thousands of businesses in nearly 40 provinces and cities have been trained; and more than 200 businesses have received in-depth consulting on the digital transformation roadmap.

After two years implementing the programme, businesses have made clear changes in their awareness of the need for digital transformation. Many businesses have entered the stage of data digitisation, process standardisation, digital technology application and digital transformation on a broader and more synchronous scale.