Some features of information resource on Vietnam sea and islands

Abstract

In theory and practice of information activities, information resource is an important element of any profession. On state scale, information resource is considered as the measure of country development, of social development criteria and civilisation level of nation. Vietnam is a state having three sides - eastern, southern and south-western sides - opened to the East Sea, with a sea shore being 3,260 km long from Móng Cái to Hà Tiên. The part under sovereignty of Vietnam in the East Sea spreads to the East and South-East, surrounded by continental shelf, islands and big and small archipelagoes. In building the state information resource in general and information resource on the sea and islands in particular to be exploited efficiently in service of building and protecting state sovereignty, the study of features of information resource on sea and islands of a country is very important. This article presents some of these features of Vietnam today.