Digital transformation and green transformation are currently inevitable global transition trends oriented toward sustainable development.

The term “dual transformation” originates from the European Union and emphasizes two important trends shaping the future economy: green transformation and digital transformation.

Green transformation is driven by the need to achieve climate neutrality and sustainability objectives. This process requires political and social promotion and oversight. Digital transformation, a continuously evolving process enabled by digital technologies, interacts with and complements green transformation. The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam identified green transformation and digital transformation as key factors for achieving the objectives of sustainable development and national strength by 2045.

Digital transformation is developing rapidly, with digital economy growth three to four times higher than GDP growth. Sustainability derives from lower resource consumption, the creation of new resources such as data, and enhanced economic resilience in the digital environment. Challenges arise from digital infrastructure with high energy consumption and issues related to electronic waste. Therefore, the transformation process needs to apply green digital technologies with low energy consumption and make use of renewable energy.

Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW of the Sixth Plenum of the 13th Central Committee identified that “digital transformation is a new breakthrough method to shorten the process of industrialization and modernization.”

Digital transformation creates momentum for enterprises by stimulating innovation and research and development in digital technologies to improve the efficiency of energy and resource use and environmental protection.

At the same time, it opens new development space by integrating physical and digital spaces to build new economic systems.

Digital transformation is being implemented across all sectors and brings significant benefits.

Transformation efforts also focus on shifting industries toward green models, using new resources that are non-consumptive and generate data.

By digitizing and automating production processes, energy and material savings can be achieved and carbon emissions can be reduced.

The application of digital technologies also supports effective energy management, emission reduction, and progress toward net-zero objectives, while fulfilling Viet Nam’s environmental commitments.

Green digital transformation is considered a key factor enabling Viet Nam to develop rapidly and sustainably, meet international environmental commitments, and shorten the process of industrialization and modernization. To succeed in green digital transformation, Viet Nam needs to adopt a specific pathway and approach that leverages the country’s unique advantages.

First, this approach is grounded in Viet Nam’s culture and history, characterized by adaptability to innovation, aspirations for national strength, and the pursuit of prosperity.

Second, it draws on Viet Nam’s geographical and cultural diversity, requiring policies to adjust measures appropriate to the characteristics of each locality.

Third, based on the Party’s leadership system, Viet Nam can mobilize the combined strength of the political system and the population for major tasks such as industrialization and modernization.

To achieve green digital transformation and industrialization–modernization objectives by 2045, GDP growth needs to be maintained at a minimum of 7 percent on a sustained basis. Digital economy growth by 2045 needs to reach 20–25 percent per year or 25–30 percent, which is three to four times higher than GDP growth. Currently, Viet Nam’s digital economy growth rate has remained stable at 20–25 percent per year over the past three years.

In terms of institutional frameworks, it is necessary to break old rules, promote cross-sector integration, and continuously develop new theoretical foundations for digital transformation in order to shorten the industrialization and modernization process.

For digital economy development, each sector and field needs to prioritize the use of shared digital platforms, with the objective that the proportion of sectoral digital economy to core ICT digital economy reaches 70/30 by 2030.

In enterprise digital transformation, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises, the use of shared digital platforms is a key factor. The objective is for 70 percent of enterprises to use digital platforms by 2030.

For state-owned enterprises, they are expected to play a leading role in achieving autonomy in core technologies and guiding the digital transformation ecosystem in Viet Nam. Digital governance, combined with digital government, smart cities, and digital economic governance, will provide high economic resilience and support monitoring, early warning, and forecasting of external impacts. Digital data will play an important role in this process.

It can be observed that green digital transformation is a central driving force enabling Viet Nam to develop rapidly and sustainably, fulfill international environmental commitments, and create breakthroughs to shorten the industrialization and modernization process. The implementation of digital transformation combined with green transformation by enterprises will require support from organizations with experience in this field. STI Viet Nam presents itself as an organization with extensive experience and readiness to support and accompany enterprises in the initial stages of digital and green transformation. Contact with STI Viet Nam can be made via hotline 098.977.0795 to receive consultation and support.