(VOVworld) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called on social media users in Vietnam to be more "responsible," pledging government support to boost Internet access across the country. Dung said in a statement recently posted on the government’s news website that the goal is to increase the country's Internet usage rate to above 90% of the population, on par with the current rates in developed countries. No timeframe has been given in the statement, which marked 18 years after Vietnam was first connected to the Internet. At the end of 2014, Vietnam had nearly 45 million Internet users, or more than 49% of the population, which was higher than the global rate of 40.4% and the 32.4 % rate of the Asia-Pacific region.