Co-chaired the 14th India-Vietnam Joint Commission Meeting on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technological Cooperation at the end of which they signed the agreed minutes.
Reviewed implementation of activities for 2007-10 under bilateral cooperation and agreed to a plan of activities for 2011-13. Focus areas for cooperation include political, defence and security, trade and investment, credit and banking, energy including oil and gas exploration, agriculture, animal husbandry and aquaculture, science and technology, information and communications technology, health, civil aviation, education, human resources development, capacity-building and cultural and media exchanges.
EAM also inaugurated the Vietnam-India Advanced Resource Centre for Information and Communication Technology.
EAM also inaugurated the Vietnam-India Advanced Resource Centre for Information and Communication Technology.
This project, the largest so far under bilateral assistance, has been set up under a US$ 2 million grant by India to Vietnam. The hi-tech Centre will provide a wide range of training in Information & Communication Technology (ICT), application of e-learning technology in education, infrastructure for web portal creation, service infrastructure for GIS application development, turn key support for e-governance applications and digital library infrastructure for use by libraries. It is expected to train more than 2000 government officials and students in various IT related areas.
The Centre will train students and professionals aspiring to make a career in the field of ICT and serve as a hub for the training of the trainers as well as, help teachers to learn fundamentals of IT and IT based teaching tools. It will also offer specially designed training programme to increase IT literacy amongst the officials working in the Government of Vietnam. The project will also provide specialized assistance in identifying e-governance solution for various departments in Government of Vietnam.
The Centre will train students and professionals aspiring to make a career in the field of ICT and serve as a hub for the training of the trainers as well as, help teachers to learn fundamentals of IT and IT based teaching tools. It will also offer specially designed training programme to increase IT literacy amongst the officials working in the Government of Vietnam. The project will also provide specialized assistance in identifying e-governance solution for various departments in Government of Vietnam.
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