Vice Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Truong Viet Dung chaired the meeting, which was attended by municipal departments and major technology companies operating in Hanoi.
Overview of the meeting.
Reports presented at the conference showed that Hanoi is considered one of the leading localities in creating shared data.
However, challenges remain in building clean, reliable datasets. Given the city's strong demand for digital transformation, there is a pressing need for a large-scale data center.
According to the draft plan on Big Data Development in Hanoi for 2025–2030, the city has identified three key objectives.
In the initial stage, it aims to complete and expand network infrastructure, build city-level data centers, and deploy cloud storage applications to support big data processing with scalability and interoperability.
During this phase, Hanoi plans to pilot a data trading platform, with the goal of engaging at least 50 percent of Vietnam's large enterprises and gradually connecting and sharing data with international organizations and global platforms.
Experts and major companies praised Hanoi's determination but stressed that the first priority should be to adopt unified technical standards for data cleaning.
Overview of the meeting.
They recommended focusing on key datasets and establishing mechanisms to control data quality to ensure accuracy and reliability. On infrastructure, they suggested the city continue investing in its own data centers.
With a constructive approach, Vice Chairman Truong Viet Dung said Hanoi would first classify datasets and then develop detailed plans for big data storage.
Alongside storage solutions, data security remains a top concern.
He noted that the city may organize a security drill in October to give departments practical experience in information protection. Following this session, Hanoi will finalize its development plan for big data.
The city leadership also encouraged technology enterprises present at the meeting to identify their strengths and support Hanoi in building and completing its large-scale data centers.