According to a report by VietnamNet [english. vietnamnet. vn/ tech/2009/01/822425], Vietnam's minister of information and communications has issued an instruction for IT wQJkers of government agencies to switch to open source software. As per the report, " ... by June 30, 2009,100 per cent of the clients of the IT divisions of government agencies must be installed with open source software; 100 per cent of staff members at these IT divisions must be trained in the use of these software products and at least 50 per cent use them proficientli.

Some of the software specifically suggested in the news report are OpenOffice.org as the office suite, Thunderbird for e-mailing, Firefox for Web browsing, and a Vietnamese typing software called Unikey.

In addition, the state agencies have been asked to "increase the number of
documents and information exchanged among them that are processed by the above software:' with a directive that all staff at these agencies must be able to use FOSS at work by December 31, 2010. The minister has even instructed the PC vendors to install open source software, rather than 'cracked' software, on the systems they sell.