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e-government and the aging society: a Vietnamese perspective

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Nowadays, the Information Communication Technology (ICT) is changing the way we live, work, communicate, enjoy our live and consume services. ICT helps government in its administration and management, ICT provides a major opportunity to integrate all people with full participation in our knowledge society, especially for old people. ICT also offers reduce the social burden in providing healthcare system at home, housing supports and life innovation. In many nations, changes in the age structure of populations have significant impacts on the socio-economic development. One of such changes in several recent years is the increase of percentage and number of elderly people in the total population. Rapid population aging created various socio-economic, healthcare and social security issues. This research provides an evidence-based analysis of aging society in Viet Nam and finds out the characteristics of the elderly in Viet Nam and also indicates the impact on aging people of the move to deliver more and more public services online -- e-government service in Vietnam.

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    ICEGOV '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
    October 2014
    563 pages
    ISBN:9781605586113
    DOI:10.1145/2691195
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    1. ICT
    2. Viet Nam
    3. aging society
    4. e-government
    5. e-inclusions

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