USTDA wants to help HCM City in smart city building efforts
The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) is willing to assist Ho Chi Minh City in becoming a smart city, USTDA Country Manager David Ross told Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Tran Vinh Tuyen on March 10.
US businesses want to cooperate with and help the southern economic hub of Vietnam in smart city building, he said, asking Ho Chi Minh City to detail plans on the fields that need assistance from the USTDA so that the two sides can work on them as soon as possible.
Municipal authorities will provide favourable conditions for the USTDA to conduct surveys and seek cooperation opportunities, he added.
Valuing the USTDA’s idea of an emergency communication system, Tuyen asked the agency to work with local authorised sides to carry out this project, thus addressing shortcomings of the existing system which uses many telephone numbers.
Ross said the USTDA wants to introduce experienced businesses to provide solutions for building the communication system.