A Vietnamese delegation attended the Vietnam – Laos conference for the development of the industry-trade, energy and mining sectors in the Lao capital of Vientiane from August 16 to 18.
Paperless meetings are one of the steps towards building an e-government, with the move towards electronic documents becoming an obvious trend amidst the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has ordered departments and district-level people’s committees to use electronic signatures when issuing electronic documents starting from June 1.
Cooperation amongst customs agencies and ministries still leaves much
to be desired, said Pham Thanh Binh, a customs expert from USAID's
Governance for Inclusive Growth Programme in Vietnam.
The customs sector should expand the electronic customs procedures to
facilitate import-export and commercial activities, a customs official
has said.
The expansion of electronic customs
procedures should include special preferential businesses and the
application of digital signatures in the exchange of electronic
information, said Nguyen Tran Hieu, deputy head of the Department of
Customs Information Technology and Statistics.
By
2015 the sector will have received information on electronic customs
clearance (e-Declaration), and basic information on declaring goods and
relevant documents to gradually shift to clearing customs before the
arrival of goods (e-Manifest).
Vietnamese firms should make greater
use of information technology to become more efficient and competitive
in the context of the country’s global integration, an industry
official told a conference on e-payment held in HCM City on Jan. 20.
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