PM Pham Minh Chinh at an event on digital transformation (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA)– Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called for raising public awareness ofdigital transformation, with priority given to developingdatabases, promoting online public services, developing infrastructure anddigital platforms, and ensuring cyber security and information safety.
Chairing the 6thmeeting of the National Committee on Digital Transformation and a teleconference ondigital transformation tasks and a project on population database, e-identification and e-authentication for nationaldigital transformation for the 2022-2025period (Project 06) with a visiontowards 2030 in Hanoi on July 12, PM Chinh, who is head of the national committee, hailedpositive progress in digital transformation and Project 06 since early thisyear.
Topush forward the above priorities, he underlined the need to mobilise theinvolvement of the entire political system, people and businesses in a systematic, flexible and drasticmanner.
Ministers,heads of sectors, secretaries of Party Committees and chairpersons of People’s Committees atall levels must give drastic directions and reach consensus on awareness andaction to pool the collective power of the political system in the effort, thePM noted.
Apartfrom fine-tuning policies and mechanisms for national digital transformationand Project 06, ministries, agencies and localities must simplify regulations andadministrative procedures related to investment, business activities, andpeople's lives, ensuring a reduction of at least 20% in the number ofregulations and a decrease of at least 20% in compliance costs, as directed bythe Government, he stressed.
TheGovernment leader also directed continuing to improve the efficiency of onlinepublic services to offer the utmost convenience for citizens and businesses. Urgentrequirements were given to expedite the completion of providing 28 key onlinepublic services on the National Public Service Portal, he said.
PM Chinh urged efforts to have at least 20 million citizens use the e-identification platform VNeID with a minimum of10 applications by the end of this year.
Inconclusion, he requested ensuring the security and safety of information systems, databases, andpersonal data protection; strengthening international cooperation via graduallyconnecting with the citizen information systems of ASEAN countries and someother nations, and fostering social consensus on the digital transformationprocess./.
