Minister Nguyen Manh Hung gave a speech at the meeting.
At the meeting, the Heads of the Digital Transformation Units made a number of proposals and recommendations on organizational structure, personnel, policies and strategic orientations to support the implementation of tasks, remove difficulties and improve the capacity to lead the national digital transformation.
Director of the National Digital Transformation Agency (NDA) Nguyen Thanh Phuc said that the Agency is undertaking a huge amount of work, is the standing unit directing the implementation of Resolution 57-NQ/TW in the Ministry and will soon preside over the drafting of the Digital Transformation Law. In the first 6 months of 2025, the number of documents to the Agency doubled compared to 2024 while the addition of additional human resources is still limited. The Agency proposed to establish a specialized unit to carry out the assigned tasks according to Resolution 57-NQ/TW, creating conditions for the Agency's leaders to focus on institutional building, specifically drafting the Digital Transformation Law in the last 6 months of 2025.
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Pham Duc Long spoke at the meeting.
Responding to the proposal of the National Center for Advanced Technology, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung said that the establishment of such a specialized unit at the Department is necessary, and will also be in charge of science and technology (S&T) and innovation (I&C) issues. The Minister directed Deputy Minister Pham Duc Long to add representatives from the S&T and I&C fields to this specialized unit. Regarding the addition of human resources to the Department, the Minister directed the Department of Organization and Personnel to transfer forces and increase human resources for the Department from other units under the Ministry next week.
Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Hoang Minh speaks at the meeting
The Minister also directed the Heads of Units to not only focus on professional work, but also to comprehensively manage office work, personnel, finance, etc. The Academy of Posts and Telecommunications Technology has now completed designing mini-MBA courses (lasting from 3-5 months) to provide management skills for leaders of units under the Ministry to solve these problems. The Department of Organization and Personnel will soon announce the deadline for Heads of Units to have certificates of completion of mini-MBA courses.
Director of the National Information Technology Administration Nguyen Thanh Phuc proposed a number of key issues of the Administration.
Institutions play an important role in the process of industrialization.
The Minister also affirmed that, in the field of digital transformation, institutional development plays an important role, demonstrating the leading role of the Department in the field of national digital transformation. In the context that many ministries, branches and localities are also building digital transformation institutions, there must be a unit that takes on the role of overall designer, as a general architect for digital transformation institutions in Vietnam. That is the role of the National Digital Transformation Department.
Director of the Department of Digital Economy and Society Tran Minh Tuan spoke at the Conference.
Minister Nguyen Manh Hung also emphasized that, for national digital transformation to be truly effective, the important thing that state management agencies need to do is to establish a mechanism for others to do, specifically businesses.
If we want to have excellent digital transformation, we must pilot it. If the pilot is successful, we will expand it nationwide. If we want to pilot it, we must have financial resources, facilities (labs...), and a sandbox policy...
Director of National Electronic Authentication Center To Thi Thu Huong
The head of the science and technology sector also emphasized the importance of digitalisation, with digitalisation comes data to train AI and, equally important, changing the operating model. We should not follow the AI transformation trend, but consider AI as a data processing tool.
Digital platforms promote digital economy
Responding to comments from the Department of Digital Economy and Society (DECO) and the National Electronic Authentication Center (NEAC), Minister Nguyen Manh Hung emphasized the importance of the digital platform economy. This is the fundamental difference between the digital transformation era and the information technology era. Platforms like Facebook... are easy to use and help all businesses, including one-person businesses, easily participate in the digital economy. Without a digital platform, there is no digital economy.
Deputy Director in charge of the Institute of Digital Technology, National Digital Transformation Chu Minh Hoan
However, the Minister noted that the current institutions for the digital economy are still very limited, there are no standards or regulations for the digital economy, and there are no specific support mechanisms for small and medium enterprises.
Regarding the question of attracting talented and high-quality human resources, the Minister suggested that we should refer to Australia's experience: 10% of the total salary fund should be spent on hiring talented seasonal workers. That is a good and effective experience that we should learn from. Because 80% of state management work is implementation work, we need a team of human resources with a good attitude to serve the people and businesses, and be loyal to the country and the Fatherland.
Concluding the Conference, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung emphasized that digital transformation started in 2018, which has been 7 years. We have done a great job, which is: Making digital transformation an urgent need of society. Currently, the head of the Party and State is the Head of the National Steering Committee for Digital Transformation.
However, we are now facing a new phase. Local ministries and sectors are all building digital transformation institutions, so there is a lack of synchronization, some are redundant, some are lacking, and they are not connected to each other. Therefore, we need a general engineer for national digital institutions to turn Vietnam into a digital nation. The four units in the Digital Transformation Bloc and related units under the Ministry need to continue to make efforts and improve themselves to continue their role as national leaders in digital transformation.
Finally, the head of the Science and Technology sector wished the Digital Transformation Bloc units to have new thinking and new awareness to play the role of leading the country in Digital Transformation, realizing the dream of making Vietnam a powerful and prosperous country, entering the group of high-income countries./.
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