Vietnam Web Services Portal(Radar.vn) BarCamp Saigon

HCMC, Nov 15th, 2008

Huyen Chipwww.huyenchip.comchip@huyenchip.com+84 942 190990

Content

• Web services in VN

• Demand

• Asia is moving together

• Community’s contribution

Vietnam Web Services BoomProducts

$$$$$$

Market

Internet Users• 20 millions• Ranks 17th world wide

Mobile Users• 40 millions• one of the most fastest

telecommunications developing country

Ready for a

Boooomm?????

1st Problem: Totally strange to Web services

WHY?????

Because...

• They don’t know about those sites.“Is there anything called Facebook?”

• They don’t know the values of those sites.“What is Facebook for?”

• They can’t find their communities.“None of my friends is using Facebook, then why should I use it?”

How to solve?

Solutions

• Educate users. Introduce new sites and their values.

. Guide them how to make use of web services

• Help users build their communities

2nd Problem: Most tech news today comes from the US

News Source

The US• Newspaper: LifeHacker,

InfoWorld, MacWorld, etc.• Blogs: TechCrunch,

ReadWriteWeb, Smashup, Jeremiah Owyang, Robert Scobleizer, etc.

• Wikis

Developing countries• Only few blogs

People don’t know what is happening in Vietnam and other developing countries…

..and it’s not good ‘cos

• Vietnam vs the US: Different cultural and economical backgrounds Users’ behaviours are different.

• Vietnam can learn from India, Cambodia, China, etc. and vice versa. .

• Investors, overseas Vietnameses want to know about Vietnamese market.

3rd Problem: Ideas are wasted

3rd Problem: Ideas are wasted

Are you creative?

3rd Problem: Ideas are wasted

• 90% start-ups fail!• IDGVV recieves no less than 40-50 projects

each week (please confirm)

How to solve?

Start ups need

• Counsellors

• A dream team to work with

• Funding

4th Problem: There is no benchmark for Web services in VN

• Don’t know where I am

• Don’t know what I should do next

• Am I right?

Radar Model

Radar Model

• Web Services Magazine

• Databases

• Services for Start-ups

• Investment Brokerage

We need your help!!!!

What we need?

• Content team: Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, India, China, etc.

• Translate team

• Finance Team

• Data- collecting and Data-mining team

• Funding

What we have?

Property• Design

• Domain Name

• Host

• Determination

• Enthusiasm

• Passion for web and community

People• Nguyễn Thế Tân - Deputy General

Director from VC Corp

• Nguyễn Anh Tuấn – CEO ePi

• Sơn Trần (SonnyMotives)- HCMC Representative of Vega Corp

• Nguyễn Đức Ban (Ducban.com) – Co-Founder ASALEO

• Mai Quang Duy – CEO Net-com Vietnam

But why wait? We can start right now!

• Start a website (http://radar.vn)

• Start writing

• Start translating

• Start collecting data

• Start everything

Please contact me if you have any idea!