In his opening remarks at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that Project 06 is being implemented very actively and has achieved important results. 2023 has been chosen as the "National Digital Data Year".
Ministries, sectors, and localities all have their own databases, but they need to be connected and integrated into a common national database. Digital infrastructure is being promoted to develop synchronously, including digital infrastructure and essential infrastructure serving the digital economy and digital society.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh delivered a speech at the conference reviewing the first six months of the national digital transformation and Project 06 on the afternoon of July 12.
According to the report, online public services have been boosted, with nearly 8 million accounts and 20.7 million applications submitted through the National Public Service Portal. 35 out of 53 essential public services have been implemented at levels 3 and 4, saving over 2,500 billion VND annually. The police force has brought 227 public services to the electronic environment (online passport issuance, decentralization of car and motorbike registration to district and commune levels by the Ministry of Public Security...). Two integrated public services – birth registration, permanent residence registration, and health insurance card issuance for children under 6 years old, and death registration, permanent residence removal, and funeral allowance – have been successfully piloted in Hanoi and Ha Nam.
In his concluding remarks, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh highly appreciated the achievements while also pointing out the remaining shortcomings. The Prime Minister emphasized that digital transformation must be recognized as an inevitable trend, an objective necessity, and a crucial political task of the Party and State. He stressed the need for continued acceleration, overcoming obstacles, difficulties, and challenges, and creating further breakthroughs with a comprehensive, holistic, and inclusive approach, ensuring that no one is left behind, but with clear priorities.
The Prime Minister outlined four priorities: data development, building a database that is "accurate, complete, clean, and active" (data is a resource); prioritizing the development of online public services closely linked to people's lives and business activities, with broad coverage; prioritizing the development of platforms (especially national databases); and prioritizing cybersecurity and information security.
At the same time, it is necessary to harmonize the interests of the State, the people, and businesses; mobilize all resources and the participation of the entire political system, the people, and the business community. The establishment of a National Data Center, spearheaded by the Ministry of Public Security, is an important solution to promote the formation, connection, and sharing of national databases in the future.
"The digital economy must be a driving force of the national economy; the digital society must be one of the foundations of our society; and the digital culture must be a constituent culture of an advanced Vietnamese culture rich in national identity," the Prime Minister stated.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also clearly stated his view that "national digital transformation is a very large and strategic undertaking, but it must begin with concrete actions and specific goals, completing each task thoroughly; it cannot be vague." The Ministry of Public Security, in coordination with the Government Office, will soon implement the transformation.
Develop a monitoring, evaluation, and oversight system for the implementation of the national population database, address bottlenecks, and expedite the completion of tasks that have not yet been implemented in the first six months of 2023.
The Ministry of Information and Communications is urgently reviewing, amending, and supplementing relevant documents to promote the use and development of the VNeID electronic identification platform. Accordingly, VNeID electronic identification will be used to create new accounts for mobile subscriber information; and digital signatures will be issued in conjunction with electronic identification...
The Prime Minister also assigned the Ministry of Justice to take the lead and coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate to organize the issuance of criminal record certificates on the VNeID application. The Ministry of Public Security will coordinate to promote the issuance of level 2 and higher identification accounts and accelerate the development of applications on the VNeID platform. The goal is to have at least 20 million people using the VNeID platform with at least 10 applications by the end of 2023, with a growth rate of 3-5% per month.
Enhance information enrichment and integrate essential utilities into the VNeID application by allowing citizens to update and verify their personal data on the system (educational qualifications, family relationships; driver's license, bank account, utilities, telecommunications, civil servant, public employee, party member, etc.).
