Digital society and society 5.0: Urgent issues for digital social transformation in Vietnam

Abstract

Society has been undergoing a complex transformation from a traditional society to a modern, post-modern society with a new state of social history - “digital society”, “society 5.0” based on the development of digital technology to help connect things and unprecedentedly change our life. This article uses a qualitative method by collecting, reviewing many Vietnamese and international scientific documents to focus on analyzing three contents: (1) history, concept, and nature of “digital society”, “society 5.0”, (2) proposing an overall model of a digital society suitable to the reality of Vietnam from the overall “digital society” model of some countries in the Asia-Pacific region and “society 5.0”, (3) urgent issues in the process of implementing the goal of building a “digital society” in Vietnam by 2030. These issues discussed are also valuable for reference for countries whose context, culture, and development level are similar to Vietnam’s to adapt to digital social transformation. The important result of the study is the proposal of the overall model to build the digital society with four specific criteria: digital economy, digital government, digital culture, and digital society for Vietnamese practice and implications for countries at the same level of development.

Social development management in the Southeast region (Vietnam) in digital transformation

“…The Fourth Industrial Revolution that has emerged since the beginning of this decade (Bao et al 2020:24-25) has provided digital technology platforms such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and other digital applications, which, along with the robust development of the Internet, mobile devices, telecommunications, etc., have profoundly and comprehensively changed all fields and operational aspects of social life, including management and politics to facilitate and promote a comprehensive transformation to a digital society, society 5.0 (Nguyen & Tran 2022). Meanwhile, the characteristics of the community are total and comprehensive change, bringing the activities of the government, economy and society to the digital environment, the virtual space next to the real space, the physical world associated with the use of digital technologies (Ministry of Information and Communications 2021b:22).…”

“…SDM has been studied a lot recently. However, association of SDM with the context of digital transformation as a context and effect and also as an research object, the content of "SDM in the context of digital transformation", still has research gap (Petry 2018, Wagner 2018, Grab & Ilie 2019, Abad-Segura et al 2020, Nguyen & Tran 2022. In addition, quantitative methods have not become the main method to study this topic (Lupton 2014, Anikeeva et al 2019, Meshcheryakova & Rogotneva 2021.…”

“…Therefore, social development management should pay attention to perfecting the legal system, technical tools, human resources, etc., to be able to manage and ensure security and safety for interactions and relationships. Social systems in digital space, personal data security, financial safety, culture in digital space, high-tech crime, misleading information on social networks, etc., all need to be addressed (Milanovic 2015, Nguyen & Tran 2022.…”

Masyarakat Digital dan Problematika Kesejahteraan: Analisis Isi Wacana

“…Laporan khusus "Masyarakat digital di Asia" (GSMA, 2020) mengenalkan model dan komponen masyarakat digital di beberapa negara Asia-Pasifik. Laporan ini didasarkan pada inisiatif sosial digital dan/atau aspirasi ekonomi dari 11 negara termasuk Bangladesh, Indonesia, Australia, India, Malaysia, Jepang, Thailand, Pakistan, Korea Selatan, Singapura, dan Vietnam untuk membentuk model masyarakat digital secara (GSMA, 2020;Nguyen, H. H., & Tran, 2022) Pilar 1 kategori Digital citizenship, dicirikan dengan Interaksi antara pemerintah, warga, dan perusahaan melalui layanan publik dilakukan dengan saluran digital. Pilar ini juga fokus pada memperluas layanan online dan transaksi elektronik (e-wallet, pembayaran pajak, voting online, penandatanganan kontrak online, kontrol informasi pribadi, keamanan, konsultasi medis online, dll.).…”

Digital Society and Pandemics: An Overview

“…Today's civilization is regarded as a digital society since it is reliant on digital technologies in everyday life (Che Noh et.al., 2017;Hintz, et.al., 2017;Katzenbach and Bachle, 2019;Nguye and Tran, 2022). The advancement of more sophisticated information and communication technology culminated in the birth of the digital society.…”