Social network ethics code necessary for healthy cyberspace
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) organised a conference to discuss the code of conduct for social networks in Ho Chi Minh City on December 14.
Deputy head of the National Institute of Information and Communications Strategy Do Quy Vu (standing) speaks at the conference in HCM City on December 14 (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) organiseda conference to discuss the code of conduct for social networks in Ho Chi MinhCity on December 14.
With around55 million accounts, Vietnam is the seventh largest Facebook-using nationworldwide. Vietnamese people spend seven hours on the internet per day onaverage, with 2.5 hours spent on social networking.
With 436social networks allowed to operate in the country, the MIC has completed adraft for an associated code of conduct, which is based on internationalstandards and regulations, treating Vietnamese and foreign service suppliersand users alike.
Speaking atthe conference, deputy head of the National Institute of Information andCommunications Strategy Do Quy Vu said that apart from legal and technicalmeasures, Vietnam needs to design and conduct soft solutions to raising publicawareness on internet users’ rights and responsibilities towards cyberspacebehaviour.
Vu HoangLien, Chairman of the Vietnam Internet Association, considered the code ofconduct community-based rules.
Usersshould actively follow ethical behaviour and spread the spirit among theircommunity, while service suppliers should come up with measures to facilitatesuch behaviour, he added.
Accordingto a survey from the Vietnam Program for Internet and Society, hate content onsocial networks in Vietnam mostly attack and defame a person or group concerningtheir ethnic origin, gender identity, disability, or religion, among others.The survey said the main cause behind this is users’ conception of socialnetworks as a virtual environment where individuals hold no responsibility fortheir statements.
A representativefrom Suntory PepsiCo Vietnam, a firm that recently suffered from a false rumourspread about its product quality, said that users should behave withresponsibility and avoid sharing false information on social networks. Websiteoperators, meanwhile, must hold responsibility for the misinformation theyspread and should have representatives in Vietnam to handle related petitions.
Nguyen ThiHau, former deputy head of the HCM City Institute for Development Studies,recommended that to promote advantages and reduce the downsides of theinternet, particularly amongst social networks, synchronous actions should betaken to raise public awareness, building and implementing related regulations,and increasing administrators’ understanding and engagement in globaltechnology trends.–VNA
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Deputy head of the National Institute of Information and Communications Strategy Do Quy Vu (standing) speaks at the conference in HCM City on December 14 (Photo: VNA) 
