Viet Nam Human Rights
A Vietnamese woman becomes new Facebook director in Vietnam
22/3/18
Social networking site Facebook has confirmed
the appointment of Le Diep Kieu Trang (Christy Le) as director of Facebook
Vietnam. She will work at the company’s headquarters in Singapore.
According to Kenneth
Bishop, Facebook’s managing director for Southeast Asia, with over 60 million
Facebook users in Vietnam every month, the company is investing heavily in
resources and workforce to better support the community, including local
businesses, partners and marketers. He said with her
extensive experience, Christy Le would help businesses in Vietnam to develop
and succeed.
Born in 1980, Trang won a
scholarship to the UK’s University of Oxford and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) in the United States. After leaving MIT,
Trang worked for strategic consulting firm McKinsey. Later, she and her husband, Sonny Vu, founded
Misfit Wearables, a start-up specialising in healthwear and body-measuring
equipment.
In 2015, Misfit
Wearables was acquired by Fossil Group for 260 million USD, but Trang continued
as the CEO of Fossil Vietnam. She unexpectedly resigned on
March 9 this year, following which she was offered the position of director of
Facebook Vietnam.
Vietnam’s information
authority has appreciated recent cooperation of Facebook in dealing with issues
of Vietnamese Government’s concern. The two sides have worked together in
removing information violating Vietnam’s laws and fake accounts, as well as
preventing illegal trading activities on Facebook, at the proposal of the
Vietnamese Information and Communications Ministry.
Facebook has removed
more than 670 out of nearly 5,000 Facebook accounts that are false or spread
defamation, obscenity and violence, but the remaining ones are causing
concern in many areas. In addition, many harmful and
unlawful video clips that have blocked and removed from Google and Youtube at
the request of the MIC still appear and spread on Facebook.
Vietnam’s authority is
particularly concerned about information that incites anti-government and
anti-Party sentiment, violence, or smear the regime, and called for Facebook’s
collaboration to deal with the problem.
It would be mutual
benefit to have a better cooperation mechanism to ensure a healthy and
law-abiding development of Facebook in Vietnam, along with an effective
coordination mechanism between Vietnam and Facebook to address issues of
Vietnam’s concern.
Noting that 70 percent
of Vietnam’s population use the internet and 53 million Vietnamese use Facebook
and other social networks, Facebook should work together with Vietnam to build
a healthy information society in accordance with Vietnamese legal regulations, as
Vietnam always welcomes Facebook and other social networks. /.
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So proud for Vietnamese women! Facebook has recognized its problems to cooperate with the government to protect people's privacy.
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