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MOST’s
Vice Minister Nguyen Quan presented emulation flag to DOST’s leaders |
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In 2008, DOST
fulfiled its tasks assigned by MOST and the Province’s People Committee as fast
as in 10 first months of the year and became the first provincial department to
fulfill its tasks and make disbursment fastest in the nation, said Dr Pham Van
Sáng – Director of DOST. In 2009, the department continued innovating S&T
management mechanism, expanding self-governance for its divisions, boosting
investment in 2 main fields namely agriculture and rural-related works and
reforming administrative procedures, confirming IT and biotechnology and human
resource training as its key tasks, Sang said.
In 2008, the
department did inspection tests and transfered results of 26 studies and
projects to application in production and daily life, bringing high economic
efficiency. A number of studies applied technical advances in new seeds,
intensive cultivation, especially applied biotechnology to create new seeds,
clean plants for mass production. Studies in the field of social science focused
dealing with the province’s urgent matters, acting as a good reference for
policy-makers.
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Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Tran Van Vinh
presented certificates of merit to excellent divisions and
individuals |
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In IT field, the
Department’s 60 units inside and outside the province were transfered M-Office
electronic office software. Besides, the successful upgrading of IT facilties
brought DOST to become the only S&T department in the nation to do value-added
service on the internet like webhosting, telehosting. The Department has
installed and operated 40 VSAT-IP stations across the
province to date and become the first provincial department in the country to
successfully bring internet to the countryside by this kind of technology.
The program to
deliver S&T information to the countryside with the motto ‘deliver science door
to door for farmers not to need to go far” has been
conducted and expanded to 56 communes and wards with a big database (nearly
70,000 documents, more than 40,000 scientific Q&As and 3000 scientific films).
Moreover, the department’s studies in IT were high appreciated not only in the
country but also in the area – APEC countries. Such hightlight studies are
“intergrate VSAT IP into phone cable, delivering broadband internet to the
countryside”, a solution receiving the silver prize at the
2008 APICTA (Asia Pacific Information and Communications Technology Awards)
in Jakarta (Indonesia) and “tool to support management of information security”,
a product ranking third out of 9 products in the field of information security,
fewer than the silver prize only 0.001 score.
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Delegates attended the conference |
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Vice Minister of MOST highly
appreciated the increasingly important role of S&T activities which contribute
transferring socio-economic structure in Dong Nai province. Therefore, he noted
that DOST should keep on helping provincial leaders to boost S&T socialization,
strongly invest in S&T and in turn help create numerous products and tools that
can be applied into daily life.
On this occasion, MOST presented
excellent emulation flag to officials and staff of the department. Four
department’s divisions and 18 individuals with good working performance were
also presented certificates of merit conferred by the provincial People’s
Committee.
Reported by T.P, Translated by
Thanh Van