HANOI, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Friday asked the Information and Communication Ministry to map out a master plan on developing a strong country of information technology (IT) and communication.

    Dung made the request at the ministry's conference on implementing tasks in 2010.

    Dung said that priorities will be put on IT human resources development, IT infrastructure development and establishing IT groups competent enough to compete with other foreign ones.

    The Prime Minister called for the improvement of legal framework and policies to facilitate the development of IT and communication. This hence will support the government in propagandizing the government's policies on social economic development.

    At the meeting, the ministry put forth plans to be carried out in 2010 including speeding up the implementation of IT application in the government's management apparatus of all levels and e-government and intensifying IT human resource training.