IBM commits more assistance to city’s development

IBM Corporation will continue to assist HCMC with some pilot programs being implemented in the city, said a senior executive of the company

IBM senior vice president Jon Iwata (L) at a meeting with HCMC vice chairman Nguyen Trung Tin at the City Hall on Tuesday

Jon Iwata, IBM’s senior vice president for marketing, communication and citizenship organization of the company, made the commitment in a meeting with vice chairman of the city Nguyen Trung Tin on Tuesday. IBM will help move the pilot projects forward including projects building e-government, improving food safety, managing heath-care industry and water sources plus infrastructure and high technologies. “We will find a way around the obstacles in the projects through discussion. IBM will help speed up the process, and learn from the pilots to be able to expand the scale of projects that follow,” said Iwata in his first visit to Vietnam to check the implementation of the cooperation projects that started in February. This year, to deploy a global program called “Smarter City”, IBM has sent two groups of consultancy specialists to HCMC. After studying the city’s development needs, IBM’s consultants recommended that the city’s authorities address the needs through three projects on food quality management, healthcare management, and public traffic safety.