Vietnamese mobile application a DMA conference surprise

Nov 10, 2011 at 04:54 pm by Staff


Not all the publishing innovations being discussed at the Digital Media Asia conference later this month are high profile. One of note is Vietnam News Agency's VietnamPlus mobile news service.

The WAN-Ifra conference in Hong Kong (November 23-25) will feature some of the best known digital publishing innovations, among them developments at Schibsted and Fairfax.

But the organisation says the most interesting developments sometimes come where they are least expected.

An example is the VietnamPlus fast mobile news services available in four languages. The project will be presented by editor-in-chief Le Quoc Minh, the person behind VNA’s new media technologies development, including a unique news application that runs on 500 different mobile phones, and many other projects that aim to make the most use of social media and user-generated content.

Dedicated to journalism training, Minh runs a personal eight-year-old website – Vietnam Journalism – which is the most popular Vietnamese language website on journalism training, and gives personal annual scholarships to journalism students at Hanoi University.

Organisers say the Digital Media Asia conference, to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hong Kong, is “three conferences in one”, with each day devoted to a different topic: online and social media, tablet publishing and mobile.

Registration details are at www.wan-ifra.org/dma

During the conference, this year’s Asian Digital Media Awards will be presented, honouring how individuals and organisations in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East have embraced new technology, innovative thinking and creativity in digital media.

Other Digital Media Asia speakers include:

- Greg Hywood, the CEO of Australia's Fairfax Media, whose major titles include The Sydney Morning Herald and The Melbourne Age. Hywood is the first former journalist to be chief executive of Fairfax in two decades.

- Michael Yung, Chief Technology Officer-Digital Platforms at Next Media Group, the publisher of Apple Daily and Sharp Daily.

- Khun Torboon Puangmaha, Chief Executive Officer of Sanook Online, Thailand's number one website and a leader in its market, ahead of Google, Yahoo and other international players.

- Gregor Waller, Founder and CEO of Germany-based Digital Age Consulting and former head of strategy for Axel Springer's Welt Group, one of the most respected and innovative publishers in Europe.

- Hiroko Hoshino, Regional Online Director and Corporate Representative in Japan for The Financial Times, where she heads the FT office and oversees FT.com advertising sales and online business activities across Asia.

- Kalle Jungkvist, Senior Adviser at Norway-based Schibsted, who contributes to the online and mobile strategy of one of Europe's digital innovators and largest publishers.

Sponsors and partners include: Adobe, Atex, the Wall Street Journal Asia, the Financial Times, the South China Morning Post, Ming Pao Daily News, International Herald Tribune, CCI, One Vision, Alfa Media, the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong, GXpress Magazine, the Society of Publishers in Asia, Best Web Design Agencies, topseos, Visibility magazine, the Asia Digital Marketing Association, Media Partners Asia and Web Wednesday Asia.

Sections: Newsmedia industry

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