E-Commerce Department
Ministry of Trade
Vietnam
Environment for
Electronic Commerce
(Vietnam)
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ICT infrastructure
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Internet – History marks
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Before 1997: dial-up by early ISP: FPT, Netnam
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Decree 21/1997/ND-CP: legal basis for Internet
service provision
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December 1997: Vietnam officially connect to
Internet
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1 IXP: VNPT
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4 ISP: VNPT, FPT, SPT, Netnam
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2000, internet service provided nation-wide
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Dial-up through telephone line system of VNPT
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Internet – History marks

Number of domain names .vn: 12.611 (80% .com.vn)
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Ratio of domain names / population still low: 0,00017
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Number of IP provided: 607.744
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Increase but still low compared to the other countries
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Number of business with website: 17.500
Development of Internet services
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Characteristics
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Development of value-addes services: VoIP, chat,
forum, online games
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Diversification of users, longer time of using
internet
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Only 5/17 ISP actually operating in market
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Domestic contents development increase:
business, education, news
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Events
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Online Securities
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Legal environment
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E-commerce Ordinance
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Electronic Transaction Law (3/2006 effected)
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ICT Law (drafted 2006)
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Legal environment & Policies
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Related laws
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Commercial Code (amended 2005)
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Civil Code (amended 2005)
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ICT law (drafted)
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IPR law
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Related Govt’s decrees
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E-commerce decree (drafted)
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Digital and CA service decree (drafted)
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E- Financial & e- banking transaction decree (drafted)
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Objectives of using internet are different
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English and foreign language level
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International integration: open of ICT market,
Internet services
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Hacker, virus, spam, fraud of c/c, pornography
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Application of state orgnizations
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E- trading procedures, e-tax, e-customs
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Supporting organizations
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VCCI, VIA
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E-com Department under Ministry of Trade
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Training
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Lack of programmers, all levels
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Education in ICT (most of universities)
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Education in Ecommerce still beginning (a few
universities)
Supporting activities

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Dispute resolutions
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Some idex
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(Information Society Index) ISI: 52/53 (IDC &
World Time)
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Computer, ICT infrastucture, social development
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Network Readiness Index: 68/104 (WEF)
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E-Readiness Index: 61/65 (EIU)
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E-Gov 2004: 112/191 (UNPAN)
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Software Engineering Index: 17/30 (CIO Insight –
Global Outsourcing 2005)
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Copy Right Violation ratio: 92%, 89/89 (BSA)