Ministry works to create modern national digital infrastructure

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) will exert efforts to create a modern and safe national digital infrastructure, and a new space for digital economic growth, and developing e-government towards the building of a digital government.
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Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) willexert efforts to create a modern and safe national digital infrastructure, anda new space for digital economic growth, and developing e-government towardsthe building of a digital government.

The goal is set in the ministry’s action plan for the implementationof the National Strategy on the fourth Industrial Revolution by 2030.

Under the plan, by 2025, Vietnam's e-government indexaccording to the United Nations' ranking will be in the group of four leadingcountries in Southeast Asia. Vietnam will rank among the top 40 countries interms of the Global Cybersecurity Index of the International TelecommunicationUnion (ITU). The proportion of the digital economy will reach 20% of GDP, and theproportion of the digital economy in each industry or field will reach at least10%. By the year, over 50% of the population will have at least one electronicpayment account, and the country will deploy 5G services in at least threesmart cities in three key northern, central and southern economic regions.

By 2030, Vietnam will complete the building of a digitalgovernment. It will enter Top 30 countries in the world in terms of the ITU GlobalCybersecurity Index and the proportion of the digital economy will reach 30% ofGDP.

To that end, the ministry will focus on improvinginstitutional quality and policy-making capacity, developing database building,exploitation and connection infrastructure, developing human resources,building e-government towards digital government, investing in research anddevelopment of priority technologies, expanding international cooperation andintegration in science and intensify disseminations to raise awareness and responsibilitieson cybersecurity./.
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