HCMC plans free smartphones for poor people

A man uses a smartphone to scan a QR code for health declaration when HCMC imposes social distancing measures to curb Covid-19 in August, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran

Poor residents who cannot afford smartphones should be given one, the HCMC Department of Information and Communications has proposed.

It has argued that the goal of digital transformation can be achieved only when the administration, the economy and the society transform at the same time.

To enable digitalization of the society as a whole, all citizens must be part of the transformation, Lam Dinh Thang, the department director, said in a proposal sent to the municipal administration.

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