Digital Age Innovation Challenge: Many feasible and practical ideas

Digital Innovation Challenge: - Youth Digital Innovation Challenge is part of the program "Digital Capacity Building for Youth - Skill Our Future" in 2025. The program is co-organized by Voice of Vietnam Electronic Newspaper, United Nations Development Program (UNDP - Vietnam), Center for Science , Technology and Young Talent Development (Central Committee of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union).

The contest "Youth Digital Innovation Challenge" with the theme "Narrowing the digital gap" was launched on April 23.

After nearly 2 months of implementation, the "Youth Digital Innovation Challenge" has attracted more than 100 projects and ideas.

The competition attracted many project submissions, including students, programmers and especially disadvantaged people in society but with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and will to rise up. Creative projects focused on digital technology applications, such as AI assistants, education platforms, healthcare, sustainable agricultural development, etc., demonstrating a richness of ideas and determination to solve social challenges.

Ngo Duy Dong (Student of Hanoi Open University) representing the Easy-Comm team, a communication support platform for the deaf community, said that the team brought to the competition a project aimed at supporting communication for the deaf, through recognizing gestures and sign language, then converting them into speech and vice versa. The project members want to create a technology product aimed at the disadvantaged, helping to solve social problems.

Sharing about the origin of the project idea, Ngo Duy Dong said that through reality, he realized that support for deaf people in communication is not effective. The project was carried out with the desire to remove barriers to help deaf people integrate into society more easily, thereby improving the quality of life.

Dong believes that a startup project is not only to make money but also needs to solve problems that exist in social life.

Mr. Bui Ba Chinh, member of the jury, Deputy Director of the National Barcode Center, commented that the projects participating in the contest are in many different fields, including many projects using technology to support disadvantaged groups, aiming at the goal of sustainable development and green development. Many of the projects participating in the contest have great potential, bringing practical value.

Evaluating the projects participating in the contest, journalist Ngo Thieu Phong, Editor-in-Chief of the Voice of Vietnam Electronic Newspaper (Voice of Vietnam Radio) said: “Many projects participating in the program are good, highly applicable, and feasible to put into practice. Some projects include My Vivo with a digital platform to support mental health for the community, especially vulnerable groups in Vietnam and the Asia-Pacific region, or the Easy Comm project - a communication support platform for the deaf community, helping them overcome communication barriers through sign language recognition technology and converting sign language to voice and vice versa via camera and laptop”.

Journalist Ngo Thieu Phong said that, as a key media agency of the Party and State, Voice of Vietnam Electronic Newspaper has coordinated with organizations to implement projects to arouse and promote passion for digital transformation among the press public in general and young people in particular.

“With the Youth Digital Innovation Challenge, we hope to promote passion, encourage entrepreneurship and digital transformation, shorten the gap in digital knowledge among young people in regions across the country, and at the same time reach out to other vulnerable groups in society,” emphasized journalist Ngo Thieu Phong.

Based on the competition rules and the evaluation results of the project proposals of the competing teams, the Jury consisting of experts, scientists and prestigious managers will select the 10 best teams to honor and award prizes, each project will be supported with 5 million VND for implementation.

In particular, the Organizing Committee will award First, Second and Third prizes to 3 projects, each prize will receive a logo, certificate from the Organizing Committee and a cash prize worth 10 million VND, 8 million VND and 5 million VND respectively.

The Organizing Committee hopes that the contest will become an annual event to narrow the digital gap for union members and young people nationwide to promote national digital transformation, based on science and technology; at the same time, participate in building quality human resources in this field, contributing to promoting the strong and sustainable development of Vietnam in the coming time.

Source: https://baohungyen.vn/cuoc-thi-thach-thuc-doi-moi-sang-tao-thoi-dai-so-nhieu-y-tuong-kha-thi-thuc-te-3181966.html