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Turning scientific and technological information (S&T) into a knowledge energy source for national development requires a synchronous ecosystem from legal, infrastructure, manpower to shared culture. The seminar The role of scientific and technological information in the cause of socio -economic development according to the statistics of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2025), the National S&T information system currently has 66,827 records of S&T tasks that have been implemented, 412,047 publish science (many of which have full text); 895 research and development organizations (R&D) have been updated in the database. IDC, FPT, and international corporations such as Google, Alibaba. This is an important foundation to enhance large data storage and processing capacity, including S&T data, serving the digital economic development process, but Vietnams science and technology ecosystem is still in the early stage and faces many challenges. The data is currently dispersed, duplicated, and lack of connection; Many databases are built by ministries, branches, research institutes, universities but have not been connected, making the search for information inefficiently. The exploitation capacity is limited, especially for small and medium -sized businesses when they lack a specialized team. Most of the data is still in the raw form, requiring highly qualified human resources to transform into useful knowledge - a process such as from pollen into honey requires diligent bees in data management. The budget for S&T sources only accounts for about 0.4% of the total R&D expenditure, much lower than the European 1.9% (OECD, 2022). This led to the update of international documents, developing value -added data services is limited. Besides, the legal corridor has not kept up with the rapid change of technology. Although Vietnam has enacted the Data Law (2024), the Law on Protection of Personal Data (2023), the Law on Electronic Trading (2023), it still needs to continue to improve to encourage data development, and ensure safety, security and copyright. Many organizations and scientists also consider data as their own property, not ready to publish, making the reuse rate low. The cooperation mechanism between institutes, schools and businesses is not tight, limiting the ability to exploit generally. Compared to internationally, Vietnam still has a great gap in budget expenditure, infrastructure, human resources and open scientific culture, which shows that the construction of S&T information ecosystem in Vietnam does not stop at infrastructure investment and legal perfection, but more importantly, human resource training and creating a sharing environment, so that data has become a real knowledge energy source. This must be considered a national strategic infrastructure, similar to energy, transportation or telecommunications in the period of industrialization and modernization. And technology is not only knowledge, but also an important source of catalysts and catalysts promoting innovation and development of the country. From an application perspective, Assoc.Prof.Dr. Tran Minh Triet, Vice Rector of the University of Natural Sciences, said that it is necessary to strongly promote the application of information and artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) not only within the scope of the specialty but also to many other fields, thereby bringing the value of S&T information to the community. In addition to the library system, it is necessary to diversify channel access to information through AI specialized associations, machine learning and related fields.Ba Huynh Thi My Phuong, Director of HCMC VNU Library emphasizes the importance of information and data for scientific research, innovation, academic communication and decision making process. Ms. Phuong pointed out that the current huge amount of information easily leads to overload, so it is necessary to manage focus to guide, evaluate and ensure data reliability. The overall orientation is considered by many experts to build S&T information ecosystem according to the open - interconnected - safety - high value -added model, comply with the standard Fair (Findable, Accessible, Interopera, Reusable).declare and connect between establishments, ensure intellectual property rights and information security, and become a resource of commercialization of research results, directly contributing to the digital economy. To realize the objectives, a series of proposed solutions. Firstly, complete the legal framework, implement the Sandbox mechanism to test research data sharing models, and promote open data policies as recommended by OECD, UNESCO. Next is to build a national integrated data platform, standardize and connect the existing database, develop the national contents nationwide to help look up easily. The V-compas system also needs to be widely deployed to analyze technological capacity and support policy makers. Artificial intelligence application and new digital technology are also the key. Who can analyze research trends, strategic forecasts, build smart search engines and chatbot to support scientists, businesses and managers. A data system is only sustainable with the participation of many parties. Vietnam needs to develop a team of experts in data management, data science, science and technology statistics at university and postgraduate level, cooperating with large technology corporations to quickly improve their capacity. Businesses also need to set up specialized data management groups, ensuring that data is collected, processed, archived and exploited professionally. The change of numbers in S&T public services should also be promoted. The digitalization of the entire patent registration process, research records, test licensing and integration on the national public service portal not only helps people and businesses more convenient, but also creates transparent data warehouse for national management. In the end, building
