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Building Digital Resilience: Lessons from Vietnam

To foster knowledge-sharing, discussion, and collaboration in understanding the digital economy, TFGI Brownbag offers a platform for exploring research, gathering feedback, and engaging diverse perspectives.

In this Brownbag session, Quynh Nguyen, Chief Research Officer at ChongLuaDong (CLD), will share her insights on tackling cybersecurity threats through community-led initiatives at scale. Drawing from CLD’s pioneering work in Vietnam and its crowdsourced intelligence platform, Quynh’s presentation will demonstrate how a grassroots approach can fortify national and regional digital safety frameworks across Southeast Asia.

This session will highlight key strategies and insights emerging from CLD’s successful model, including:

- How to effectively translate crowdsourced scam intelligence into actionable insights for regional policymakers and practitioners.
- The integration of community-driven solutions to support and enhance national cybersecurity strategies.
- How safeguarding digital spaces contributes to broader sustainable development goals, including economic security and digital inclusion.

Building on this work, the presentation will emphasise the critical need to integrate community-led solutions into national cybersecurity strategies. Attendees will gain a nuanced understanding of the challenges and opportunities in harnessing collective intelligence, and how Vietnam’s pioneering experience can serve as a blueprint for creating a safer digital future for the region.

Details:

Date: 7 August 2025
Time: 10:00 am – 11:00 am (GMT+7) / 11:00 am – 12:00 pm (GMT +8)
Registration link here

Note: Please register before 6 August 2025.

About the speaker:

Quynh is Chief Research Officer at ChongLuaDao (CLD), a nonprofit platform focused on protecting the public from online scams, frauds, and misinformation in Vietnam. She leads research exploring how digital deception takes shape in everyday life, how bad actors exploit information ecosystems, how citizens become vulnerable, and how platforms and institutions can respond. Her work draws on behavioral insights, media studies, and public education to inform practical interventions. She has co-authored three books on cyber fraud, online safety, and digital literacy, which were later selected by the Vietnamese government as official references for combating information poverty.

About TFGI Brownbags:

To foster knowledge-sharing, discussion, and collaboration in understanding the digital economy, the TFGI Brownbag Session offers a platform for exploring research, gathering feedback, and engaging diverse perspectives.

Interested to partner with us on this? Write to us at @info@techforgoodinstitute.org.