Highlights the 2025 Make in Vietnam Awards, focusing on showcasing advances in digital technology innovation.

The much-anticipated 2025 Make in Vietnam Awards will open for applications from September 4 to October 22. This marks the sixth year of the awards, and for the first time, they will honour outstanding strategic digital technology products.

The Make in Vietnam Awards, launched in 2020 by the Ministry of Information and Communications (now MoST), are a significant part of Vietnam's digital transformation journey. With ambitious targets and strong aspirations, the programme aims to recognise digital technology solutions developed in Vietnam.

The awards feature eight categories. Seven categories remain from last year, and a new one has been introduced. The new category recognises strategic digital technology products, including applications of AI, digital twins, websites, augmented reality, cloud computing, quantum technology, big data, blockchain, next-generation mobile networks (5G/6G), robotics and automation, and semiconductor chips.

The awards ceremony for the 2025 Make in Vietnam Awards is scheduled for December 2025 as part of the National Forum on Developing Vietnamese Digital Technology Enterprises. The category for outstanding digital technology products for foreign markets is open to domestic enterprises where Vietnamese people hold controlling shares and to overseas enterprises in which Vietnamese citizens own at least 51% of shares.

The category for potential digital technology products applies exclusively to micro and small enterprises or innovative startups established under Vietnamese law. For foreign-invested firms, Vietnamese citizens must hold at least 51% of total shares to be eligible for this category.

The 2025 Make in Vietnam Awards aim to honour high-performing digital technology products developed in Vietnam that address local challenges while reaching international markets. The awards also aim to recognise outstanding digital technology solutions developed in Vietnam.

In 2020, the Make in Vietnam Digital Award was won by AkaBot and FPT.AI developed by FPT Group. The 2024 'Make in Vietnam Digital Technology Products Awards' are introducing new categories to cover every economic sector and outstanding new technologies like AI, big data, the Internet of Things, and semiconductors.

The Make in Vietnam program is led by the Minister of Information and Communications, as expressed in Nguyen Manh Hung's writing about upcoming plans to realize the country's digital orientations at the national forum on the development of Vietnamese digital technology enterprises. The awards are in line with 2020's Directive No. 01/CT-TTg on fostering the growth of domestic digital enterprises.

Enterprises established under Vietnamese law, as well as units and organizations with digital technology products researched, designed, manufactured, and applied in Vietnam, are eligible for the remaining categories of the 2025 Make in Vietnam Awards.

The 2025 Make in Vietnam Awards were announced on September 4, and applications are now open for all eligible enterprises. So, if you have a digital technology product that addresses local challenges and has the potential to reach international markets, don't miss this opportunity to be recognised for your innovation and hard work.