Bac Giang province moves to improve young people’s digital skills

In the time ahead, the northern province of Bac Giang will maximise the core role of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) chapters at different levels to promote digital transformation and the implementation of a plan on improving local youths’ digital skills, according to the provincial HCYU Committee.
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Bac Giang (VNA)– In the time ahead, the northern province of Bac Giang will maximise the corerole of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) chapters at differentlevels to promote digital transformation and the implementation of a plan onimproving local youths’ digital skills, according to the provincial HCYUCommittee.

The committee said itsStanding Board identified the improvement of digital skills and the applicationof scientific, technical, and technological advances as an inclusive andconsistent task in HCYU affairs and the youth movement in the 2022 - 2027 tenure.

This is also a key factor helping capitalise on the role of HCYU units in the context of the FourthIndustrial Revolution and Vietnam’s integration into the world, it noted.

In the time ahead, Bac Giangwill step up communications to raise each HCYU cadre, member, and youngster’sawareness of digital transformation. To do that, it will combine the disseminationof knowledge about digital transformation, digital skills, and the HCYU’s rolein digital transformation with activities of the HCYU and the Ho Chi Minh VanguardChildren Union.

HCYU chapters in the provinceare set to bring into play their pioneering role in implementing digitaltransformation solutions, reform their working methodology, improve theorganisation capacity, and associate their activities with the performance oflocal socio-economic development tasks.

The province will continue boostingHCYU members and youngsters’ engagement in giving advice, conductingcommunications, implementing digital transformation tasks, and assisting localresidents to access digital services and online public services, the HCYUCommittee noted.

In the time ahead, Bac Giangwill increase assistance for selling agricultural products, especially its typicalones, through e-commerce platforms. It will also conduct a survey of local farmproduce, products of the “One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme, andfarming households so as to work with relevant agencies to put products up forsale on e-commerce platforms.

The committee went on to saythat communications will also be enhanced to encourage cashless payment among the HCYU members, youngsters, and residents.

Digital technology will befurther applied at historical and cultural relic sites as well as touristattractions so that the application will be completed at three special nationalhistorical relic sites in the province this year, the committee noted.

In the first half of 2022,the Standing Board of the provincial HCYU Committee coordinated with theprovincial Department of Information and Communications and district-levelPeople’s Committees to set up community-based digital technology groups withthe participation of young people. It also opened training courses on digitalskills for members and youngsters.

So far, 209 groups at the communal level and1,891 others in villages have been formed with 9,950 members. The establishmentof those groups was inspired by the community-based anti-COVID-19 groups, accordingto Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Information andCommunications Nguyen Gia Phong.

In addition, the StandingBoard signed a cooperation agreement with the Bac Giang branch of the MilitaryCommercial Joint Stock Bank to promote cashless payment. It also inked a planwith the HCYU Committee of the Vietnam Post Corporation to facilitate the saleof lychee and other agricultural specialties on the firm’s e-commerceplatform.

The provincial HCYU Committeeworked with the province’s centre for employment services to organise twoonline job fairs for young people, especially those made jobless by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, nearly 1,000 youngsters were connected withemployers at those fairs.

In particular, the committee finishedthe digitalisation of the special national relic sites of Vinh Nghiem Pagodaand the Xuong Giang Victory venue to help popularise local tourism online./.
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