Since the opening to the Internet in 1997, Vietnam has rapidly become one of the world's top-ranked countries in terms of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures development, resulting from the strong national policies of the Government. The technological improvements in industry and all of the socio-economics sectors have conducted to the considerable changes in the education sector. Therefore, ICT is the more and more used to enhance the quality of teaching, management and gouvernance in education generally, and in higher education specifically. For the students, the ICT skills become a basic requirement to achieve digital literacy, which is an undeniable key competence of students and workers in the 21 th century. As they may continously change their professionnal orientation, jobs, functions or fields, mastering the digital tools for work and communication should help them to be successful. In this article, we arm to present an overview of some most important digital literacy models in the world, and then to discuss about the state of the arts and their needs to adopt a new approach in Vietnam. Citation: Nguyen Tan Dai, Marquet P. 2018. Digital literacy in response to the needs of the society: International models and pratical approaches in Vietnam. Review of Social Sciences Ho Chi Minh City, 244(12), 23-39. [Fulltext in Vietnamese]