According to the latest data from the Department of Tourism on the afternoon of June 13, the number of visitors to Hue by air and rail soared during Hue International Arts Festival Week 2024.

In addition to the ordinary exhibitions, Hue Museum of Fine Art needs to aim to the assistance of digital technology to attract more viewers and provide them with more hands-on experience. What is meant by digital technology is the its focus on digitizing data and exploiting smart remedies for the exhibits.

In the framework of Hue Digital Transformation Week 2023 – “Creating digital data – promoting regional connectivity” held by the Provincial People’s Committee in collaboration with the Vietnam Software & IT Services Association (VINASA), the opening ceremony of the exhibition featuring typical digital technology platforms and solutions took place on the morning of December 14 at Song Huong Theater.

Hue Digital Transformation Week 2023, with the theme “Generating Digital Data - Accelerating Regional Connectivity,” is expected to unveil strategies for a new phase of digital transformation (DT) in Thua Thien Hue. Mr. Nguyen Xuan Son, Director of the Department of Information and Communication (ICT) shared insights on this significant event with Thua Thien Hue Weekly.

“Thua Thien Hue needs a survey about all the Phu De currently left in the province in terms of their locations, values, ages, architecture, conditions, etc. The survey will become a database for researching”. (Phu are princes’ residences and De are princesses’ residences in the past).

This is the topic of an international conference organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) in collaboration with the People's Committee of Thua Thien Hue Province and World Bank (WB) on the morning of June 8 in Hue City.

Recently, the Open Data product of Thua Thien Hue province, the Provincial Center of Information Technology (HueCIT) won the second prize in the field of IT, Electronics and Telecommunications (no first prize) at the Thua Thien Hue Provincial Technical Creation Competition 2022.

The Provincial Development Research Institute and Hue Monument Conservation Center would share data and information on the relics that is under the management and conservation of the center.

“We will propose to the provincial authorities to consider and coordinate with the French Embassy to Vietnam to agree on a draft of cooperation agreement with the French School of the Far East (EFEO) to exchange and cooperate in data searching and managing, establishing an electronic database and data on heritage digitization, that add more sources of original documents to Hue heritage,” shared Mr. Hoang Viet Trung, Director of Hue Monuments Conservation Center (HMCC) after returning from his business trip to France.

On the afternoon of October 6, the Provincial Department of Science and Technology held a conference to accept the results of the provincial-level scientific technological research study entitled "Building a database on Tuồng Hue art", which is carried out by Hue Monuments Conservation Center.