Ho Chi Minh City's efforts
The 2024 DTI Index is implemented in two assessment groups: group of 63 provinces and cities (before the merger) and group of 34 provinces and cities (after the merger). This method both reflects changes in administrative scale and ensures close monitoring of local digital transformation developments.
Ho Chi Minh City leads the group of 63 provinces and cities and is ranked fourth in the group of 34 merged provinces and cities, clearly demonstrating the comprehensive development and expansion of the scale of the "super urban area" after the merger. The city is at the top in the criteria of digital awareness and digital institutions, along with a high position in the fields of digital society, digital infrastructure and digital economy.
This result continues to affirm Ho Chi Minh City's position in the group of leading localities in the country, and at the same time recognizes efforts in the first year of applying the new administrative model after the merger.
The 2024 DTI Index is a comprehensive measure, built on 7 main indicators and 47 component indicators, assessing the level of digital transformation development of localities on three core pillars: Digital government, digital economy and digital society. With a maximum score of 1000, the results announced show that both before and after the merger, the city was in the leading group in all three pillars.
This result shows Ho Chi Minh City's great efforts in synchronizing the data system and operating digital government effectively in the context of major changes in scale and administrative boundaries.
Notable figures
Ho Chi Minh City's outstanding achievements are comprehensively expressed on all three pillars. Regarding digital government, the city has put into operation unified shared digital platforms, providing 1,996 online public services, of which up to 1,778 services have reached the perfect level, towards a model of created, serving and efficient government based on data.
Meanwhile, the digital economy contributed 22% to the City's GRDP in 2024 and is expected to increase to 25% in 2025, showing a pioneering role in promoting new business models.
In the digital society, 100% of people have digital identities and electronic identification accounts, creating a solid foundation for using public services and digital utilities. Ho Chi Minh City is also ranked 30th in the world in Blockchain, one of the strategic technologies that is being focused on developing.
Ho Chi Minh City aims for the digital economy to account for 30-40% of GRDP and become an international standard innovation center by 2030. To realize this vision, the city will focus on key solutions such as: perfecting data-based governance; speeding up the progress of key projects; breakthroughs in policy mechanisms to attract strategic investors, typically the AI Super Data Center project with an investment capital of nearly 2 billion USD from the G42 Group (UAE); and especially developing high-quality digital human resources.
