ICT Development Strategies

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Chapter, 3 ICT Development in South Korea, China and Vietnam:
This chapter presents an analysis of Vietnam, China and South Korea s macroeconomic indicators and the ICT indicators, which will be put together for an overviewed comparison among countries. Vietnam is a developing country in which the ICT is still not so strong exploited like in China and Korea. China is the biggest economy in the world, however because of its giant size the ICT adoption is constrained in some aspect. In other side, Korea has achieved an impressive ICT quality not only in Asia Region but also global perspective.
3.1, Economic Dynamics and ICT Development in Vietnam:
This section starts with the general national background of Vietnam such as history, trade, economic growth and then describes the ICT development in this country with different indicators, ICT industry and political actions.
3.1.1, National Background of Vietnam:
Vietnam is a Southeast Asian country with the population of 87.8 million inhabitants in 2011. It makes Vietnam one of the world s most populous countries (13th). Vietnam suffered war before 1975. In early 1986, the government initiated a series of economic and political reforms. Since 2000 Vietnam had re-established diplomatic relations with most nations and joined the world economy. The joining of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2007 indicated the country has successfully achieved economic reforms. However, Vietnam still has some problems such as relatively high levels of income inequality, high corruption rate and lack of democracy. The socialist Republic of Vietnam is a single-party state, named the Communist Party of Vietnam. Under the Communist Party of Vietnam, all aspects of government, politics and society are strictly controlled. But in foreign relationships, the government has an open policy and has established international relations of different kinds: bilateral, multi-lateral relationships with 172 countries (2007), including

T.L.Hoa Pham has focused in macroeconomics since 5 years in different areas like economic crisis, international trade. Especially in ICT theme she has done papers on effect of ICT on B2B and B2C. This paper of ICT development strategies is one of her works, which is dedicated as one of the best graduation-papers of the year 2013 University Wuppertal. Pro. Welfens, Chairman of this EIIW institute, was also inspired by this subject as well as the research result. T.L.Hoa Pham comes from Asia, studied both Business Administration and Economic Policy in Europe and works now in Online-trading between two regions as intermediate. She believes ICT plays the most important role in achieving any success of economy.