Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh delivers his opening speech at the conference. (Photo: VNA) Addressing the hybrid national event,the PM, who is also head of the national committee, said digital transformationis an inevitable trend that is taking place around the world, and Vietnam couldnot be an outsider.
Digital transformation is a new,difficult, and sensitive job requiring resources, time, and other necessaryconditions, he noted, adding that it was identified as one of the focal tasksby the 13th National Party Congress while the Government is also implementingPlan 06 to carry out digital transformation tasks.
The Ministry of Information and Communicationsreported that as of June 2023, three out of 30 ministries, sectors,ministry-level agencies, and governmental agencies along with 36of the 63 provincial-level localities had issued action plans to implement thenational strategy for developing the digital economy and digital society by 2025,with a vision to 2030. Twenty-nine localities had issued plans to promotedigital transformation and cashless payment at educational and healthestablishments. Thirty-one localities had released action plans to encouragesmall- and medium-sized enterprises to conduct digital transformation.
Meanwhile, digital infrastructure hasbeen developed comprehensively. Great strides have also been recorded ininformation safety, cyber security, and the development of digital humanresources, digital skills, digital citizens, digital enterprises, and digitalpayment.
At the event (Photo: VNA) Thegroup also highlighted the Ministry of Public Security’s digitalisation of datafrom the judicial sector and the labour, invalids and social affairs sector toreduce administrative procedures. Online public services have also been steppedup, receiving support from the public and helping to save more than 2.5 trillionVND (105 million USD) for the State each year.
However, the working group alsopointed out certain shortcomings in the implementation of the national digitaltransformation strategy and Plan 06, including the shortage of strong directions fromleaders of grassroots units, many ministries and sectors’ incompletion ofadministrative procedure simplification, unstable operations of the NationalPublic Service Portal at certain points of time, and some localities’ poorperformance in handling administrative procedures for people and businesses./.
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