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Vietnam businesses yet to harness e-commerce: MoT
06/08/2010 - 147 Lượt xem
The ministry said at a news briefing in Hanoi on Monday to discuss Vietnam’s e-trade activities for 2005 that the country had successfully established the e-commerce model and expected strong growth this year.
A recent ministry survey on e-commerce application at 504 enterprises in Vietnam showed that 71.2 percent of them use high-speed Internet access service ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
Almost half, or 46.2 percent of enterprises launched their own websites, of them 28.7 percent update information daily, 17.6 percent weekly, 13.7 percent monthly and 39.9 percent occasionally.
But the bad news from the survey was that 99.6 percent of websites provide only fundamental company information, 32.8 percent have partial functions that support e-commerce, and only a few actually allow customers to actually place orders online.
Footwear, textile and garment exporters were in the majority of enterprises applying e-trade in business, the ministry said, adding 66.3 percent of export businesses had their own websites – 92 percent of which were available in English.
The survey revealed some 30 percent of orders for Vietnamese footwear, textiles and garments were placed via information clients gained through websites.
Speaking at the news conference Monday, Nguyen Thanh Hung, head of the Ministry of Trade’s E-commerce Department said the ministry had begun to address the ownership rights for virtual assets of online gamers.
“In our opinion, the strong development of information technology has changed the concept of property,” Hai said.
“The United States has done extensive research on virtual assets and concluded that virtual property has real value, the ownership rights of which must be protected by law. I think we should take this issue further in Vietnam,” he added.Source: Thanhnien, 1/3/2006
