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Vietnam’s government will require its ministries and state agencies to install and become proficient in open source software. There are various stages to the adoption of open source software products like OpenOffice, Mozilla ThunderBird, Mozilla FireFox web browser and the Vietnamese typing software Unikey. By June 30, 2009 all clients of the IT divisions of the agencies are mandated to be using open source software.
The ministries themselves must have and be using 70 percent of open source software by December 31, 2009. Finally by Dec 31, 2010, all staff in these agencies must be able to use open source software in their jobs. By then most information and documents will be exchanged using only open source software. The government is also encouraging computer traders to install open source software on computers rather then “cracked software”. More information is available here