Chương 4 Nghị định 71/2007/NĐ-CP: Biện pháp bảo đảm phát triển công nghiệp công nghệ thông tin

Chapter IV

MEASURESFORENSURING THE DEVELOPMENTS INFORMATION TEOINOLOGYINDUSTRY

Article 23- Development ofhuman resources for the information technology industry

The State shall prioritize the development of human resources for the informattion technology industry in the following forms:

1 .Information technology industry is included in the priority group of state budget-funded scholarship programs for overseas training or cooperation development scholarship programs between the Vietnamese Government and foreign governments or international organizations.

2. Overseas Vietnamese investing or participating in information technology industry activities in Vietnam may buy houses and residential land under favorable conditions as prescribed by the law on land and houses.

3. The State shall create favorable conditions for sending Vietnamese software and digital information laborers to work, practice or study abroad.

4. The Ministry of Post and Telematics shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Education and Training and the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs in, specifying conditions for short-term training and fostering of specialized skills and new technology skills for human resources of the information technology industry, and grant information technology certificates.

5. The Ministry of Education and Training shall assume the primeresponsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Post and Telematics in, reviewing, regularly supplementing and adjusting information technologyiiaining programsin universities and colleges, paying attention to the quick development of new technologies andnew trends in the world in the domain ofinforrnation technology.

Article 24.- Investment in development of the information technology industry

1. Annually, the Ministry of Post and Telematics shall elaborate plans and make cost estimates for the development of the information technology industry.

2. The Ministry of Finance shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Post and Telematics and the Ministry of Planning and Investment in, guiding the financial management of activities to form, the information technology industry.

Article 25.- Investment preferences

1. Research and development, manufacture or business establishments in the information technology industry are entitled to investment preferences under the Government's Decree No. 108/2006/ND-CP of September 22, 2006, detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Investment Law.

2. Information technology parks are entitled to preferences equivalent to those granted to hi-tech parks under the Government's Decree No. 108/20067ND- CP of September 22,2006, detailing and guiding the implementation ofa number of articles of the Investment Law, and legal provisions on policies to encourage investment in hi-tech parks.

3. Investment projects which are particularly important to development of the information technology industry are entitled to additional preferences as decided by the Prime Minister.

Article 26.- Priorities for development of the software industry and content industry

1. The State shall grant the highest preferences to organizations and individuals participating in software industry or content industry activities in accordance with law, including:

a/ Organizations and individuals investing in the manutacture of, or trade in, softwares; orther manufacture of digital information content products are entitled to tax preferences provided for by the tax law and land use preferences;

b/ Software and digital information content products manufactured in Vietnam and software services supplied by organizations andenterprises of all economic sectors operating in Vietnam enjoy the highest preferences in terms ofvalue added tax and export tax.

2. If organizations or enterprises participate in the software industry or content industry and in many other activities, they are only entitled to preferential policies prescribed in this Article for the manufacture and supply ofs oftware products and services or the manufacture of digital information content products.

Article 27.- Building of material and technical facilities for research and development of the software industry and content industry

1. The Ministry of Post and Telematics shall study and formulate policies to encourage domestic and foreign organizations and individuals to set up venture investment funds in the domain of information technology industry in Vietnam.

2. To adopt priority policies to mobilize various capital sources for the building of establishments specialized in software industry and content industry research and development, which will strive forthe following targets:

a/ Playing the role of key software industry and content industry laboratories up to regional and international standards;

b/ Acting as centers for research and development and support of the application of industrial production processes and informaiion technology industry quality and standard assurance processes;

c/ Functioning as nurseries ofnew creative ideas and new products in the domain o fsoftware industry and - content industry,

d/ Serving as abridge linking information technology training and information technology industry manufacture acting as centers to support the development ofhuman resources for the software industry and content industry

Article 28.- Application of software industry and content industry quality assurance processes

1. The Government encourages software enterprises and enterprises manufacturing digital information contents to apply processes to assure their quality uptothe CMM, CMMI standards or other equivalent standards. Software products and services and digital information content products of enterprises which have been accredited to apply processes ofassuring their quality according to the CMM, CMMI standards of level 3 upward or equivalent standards shall be prioritized for use in information technology projects funded with the state budget or capital of state budget origin in accordance with law.

2. The Government shall adopt policies to support enterprises to obtain certificates of assurance of the quality of software products and digital information according to the CMM, CMM1 standards or equivalent standards.

Article 29.- Managementand exploitation of the software intellectual properly depository

1. The Stateiiolds intellectual property rights to software products and digital information contents researched, developed or manufactured by organizations orenterprises with state budget capital or capital of state budget origin so as to create a software intellectual property depository of the State, thereby creating capital sources to support the development of the software industry and content industry.

2. The Ministry of Postand Telematics shall formulate and promulgate a Regulation on management and exploitation of the software intellectual property depository.

Article 30.- Management of information on the infomiation technology industry

1. The Ministry of Post and Telematics shall take responsibility for gathering, analyzing, managing and promulgating information on the development of the information technology industry in the country and overseas.

2. Information on the information technology industry defined in Clause 1 of this Article covers:

a/ The technological level of the production of information technology,

b/ The trends of research and development of information technology,

c/ The trends of development of the information technology industry market;

d/ The present situation of the development of information technology industry enterprises.