Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (standing) speaks at the meeting (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested ministries andlocalities to soon address shortcomings in legal environment for building thee-government, while chairing an online meeting on August 26.
Henoted that the rate of online public services remains low, which is unlikely toreach 30 percent at the year’s end without new ways of implementation. Some ministries and provinces could only reach less than 10 percent, an alarming level, headded.
Thedeployment of national database that creates a foundation for the e-government hasbeen slow, especially on land issues, the PM said, adding that it is too late to waituntil 2025 as proposed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.
He urged the Ministry of Information and Communications to map out a trainingproject and a national digitalisation roadmap for localities, as well as complete a draft on the development strategy of the digitalgovernment for 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030, in the third quarter of thisyear.
TheMinistry of Public Security was tasked to speed up the building of a decree onthe protection of personal data, then submit to the Government forconsideration in 2020.
From2021, the Government will consider conducting e-government ranking for the 63 citiesand provinces nationwide, he revealed.
Vietnam ranked 86th out of the 193 countries and territories by the e-government development index (EGDI) in 2020, climbing two places from two years ago, according to the 2020 e-government survey conducted by the United Nations. It ranked sixth in Southeast Asia, behind Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei and the Philippines./.
