Ho Chi Minh City Cadre Academy launches "Blended Learning Program" in 2025 with the theme "Building Digital-Ready Institutions For Development"
With a view to updating knowledge for the body of civil servants and public employees on digital governance, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, public policy and necessary skills, which contributes to enhancing their competence to perform public duties, through the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) on the afternoon of April 03, 2025, the Development Learning Center of the Ho Chi Minh City Cadre Academy in collaboration with the KDI School of Public Policy and Management - Korea launched the "Blended Learning Programme 2025" with the theme "Building Digital-Ready Institutions For Development".
The Opening ceremony was attended by Assoc.Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Y - Party Committee Vice Secretary, Vice Rector of the Academy; leaders of departments, faculties, centers; lecturers and staff of the Academy. The thematic reports were broadcast online via the Zoom platform and the cabin translation system at Ho Chi Minh City Cadre Academy.
The program takes place on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from April 3, 2025 to April 24, 2025 with the following thematic contents: (1) Digitalization and Public Policy Problems; (2) Entrepreneurship in Asia in the Digital Age; (3) Utilizing Digital Technologies to Address Welfare Blind Spots; (4) Competition Policy and Regulatory Issues in the Digital Economy; (5) Harnessing Al in Industrial Policy; (6) Balancing between Al Promotion and Privacy; (7) Beyond Technology: Why Organizations Matter in Digital Transformation.
The Global Development Learning Network is a system of the World Bank that links more than 100 training institutes worldwide, carrying out educational tasks in a variety of fields, notably in the field of public management. The predecessor of the Ho Chi Minh City Development Learning Center, a member of the Global Development Learning Network, is the City Distance Learning Center Project, which joined the Global Development Training Network in 2005. On May 24, 2021, Ho Chi Minh City Cadre Academy officially took over the Development Learning Center from the City Department of Culture and Sports under the Decision No. 888/QD-UBND, dated March 15, 2021 by the Chair of the City People's Committee. The development goal of the HCM City Development Learning Center (HDLC) is to become a center of Ho Chi Minh City specializing in training offline and online soft skills, organizing short-term international training courses at home and abroad, providing information, documents and facilities for those interested in international integration, including priority groups as cadres, civil servants, public employees; and entreupreneurs of the City.