A project to popularise IT in Viet Nam
(03/29/2004 -- 16:58GMT+7)
Ha Noi, Mar. 29 (VNA) - Viet Nam's government has okayed a project worth one billion USD to purchase computers and train their users across the country.
The project aims to popularise information technology (IT) for about 20 million of citizens, mostly young people for the current process of national modernisation and industrialsation.
In a meeting held last week, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai said he agreed in principle to assign Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union to carry out the project.
Under the five-year project, the Union would purchase two million computers installed with legal software and then re-sell them at low prices.
Pham Tan Cong, an official from the Union, said a computer which now costs around 500USD but under the project, would sell for 50-60 percent cheaper, adding that the buyers would be offered free access to the Internet with high-speed connection.
The project would play an important role in developing a knowledge-based economy in the country, he said.
The Union plans to hire one million people already skilled in IT to train those who buy the computers on the basis of computer and Internet use.
