Every year, the Government reports to the National Assembly on the national digital transformation index.

During the discussion at Group 12 (including the National Assembly delegations of Dong Thap and Quang Ngai provinces) on the afternoon of November 6, there were opinions suggesting that the draft Law on Digital Transformation should attach regulations on statistics, measurement, and monitoring of digital transformation to the mechanism of the Government reporting to the National Assembly annually on the national digital transformation index. The State Audit shall conduct digital audits on investment, exploitation of digital infrastructure and digital data.

The head of the agency is responsible for the results of digital transformation.

National Assembly Deputy Nguyen Hai Anh (Dong Thap) highly appreciated the draft Law on Digital Transformation submitted to the National Assembly at the 10th Session. This is not only a law on technology, but also a law on the country's new development model in the coming period - associated with digital government, digital economy, digital society and digital citizens, while ensuring national digital sovereignty .

Delegate Nguyen Hai Anh commented that while the 2006 Law on Information Technology mainly regulates the application and development of information technology as a tool to support management, production and business activities, the draft Law on Digital Transformation shifts to a new approach: Digital transformation is not just about using more technology, but about comprehensively changing the method of management, service provision, production - business organization and social interaction in the digital environment.

National Assembly Delegate Nguyen Hai Anh ( Dong Thap ) speaks. Photo: H.Ngoc

The draft Law lays the institutional foundation for a "new development space" of the country - not only "digitizing" what exists, but also creating new models and values, delegates emphasized.

The Draft Law is designed to perform three important roles: It is a framework law, coordinating specialized laws with digital elements (electronic transactions, network information security, network security, personal data, digital finance, digital healthcare, digital education, etc.); it is a strong political and legal commitment to the strategic priorities of the Party and State for digital transformation - from human resources, finance, infrastructure to institutions; it is a mechanism to protect people, businesses and national sovereignty in the digital space.

The delegate noted that we currently have many laws and regulations with digital elements. Although the draft Law mentions the differences between the Law on Digital Transformation and other laws, it has not clearly defined which part is the general principles and policies under the Law on Digital Transformation; which part is the detailed regulations, techniques, business conditions, and institutions under specialized laws.

Therefore, the delegate proposed to add a separate article regulating the relationship of the draft Law with related laws. And clearly define: The Law on Digital Transformation is a framework law on policies and principles; specialized laws will provide details. In case of conflict, general principles give priority to the Law on Digital Transformation, techniques and sanctions give priority to specialized laws; regarding preferential policies, the more beneficial option for beneficiaries within the defined scope will be applied.

Discussion scene at Group 12 (including National Assembly delegations from Dong Thap and Quang Ngai provinces). Photo: Ho Long

The draft Law also sets out many strong commitments, but if not associated with specific responsibilities, there is a risk of repeating the situation of " The Law is very correct, but implementation is difficult or not thorough".
Delegate Nguyen Hai Anh proposed to add a regulation that the head of an agency in the political system must be responsible for the results of digital transformation within the scope of management; failure to complete digital transformation targets, failure to open data, and failure to ensure minimum resources for digital transformation are criteria for evaluation, appointment, dismissal, and budget allocation.

Delegate Nguyen Hai Anh proposed to link regulations on statistics, measurement, and monitoring of digital transformation with the mechanism: The Government reports to the National Assembly annually on the national digital transformation index. The State Audit conducts digital audits on investment, exploitation of digital infrastructure, and digital data.

Clearly separate the responsibilities of presiding and coordinating among agencies.

National Assembly Deputy Tran Thi Thu Phuoc (Quang Ngai) commented that the draft Law on Digital Transformation was built as a comprehensive law, comprehensively regulating all four pillars: infrastructure for digital transformation, digital transformation of the activities of agencies in the political system, digital economy and digital society. Thereby, it helps to remove difficulties and obstacles in practice and create a synchronous legal corridor, instead of separate regulations in this very important field.

The Draft Law also affirms the viewpoint, " Comprehensively carry out digital transformation of agencies in the political system; build a digital government that operates effectively, transparently, and takes people and businesses as the center ." At the same time, it proposes many breakthrough policies, correctly solving practical problems arising today, such as: Committing financial resources (Point a, Clause 1, Article 38: " The State ensures to allocate at least 1% of the total annual state budget expenditure for digital transformation ..."); mandatory provision of full-process online public services with eligible administrative procedures on the Electronic Identification Application (VNeID) or the National Public Service Portal, except where otherwise provided by law (Clause 1, Article 16); Strengthening “management and supervision of digital platforms, focusing on large-scale and very large-scale intermediary digital platforms” (Clause 3, Article 21), and “protecting children, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups in the digital environment” (Clause 4, Article 27)…

To complete the content of the draft Law, delegate Tran Thi Thu Phuoc proposed to remove the provision in Article 44 of the draft Law on the legal status of data because this content has been stipulated in the Data Law and detailed regulations and implementation instructions.

In Article 8 of the Data Law, the management and supervision of activities of building, developing, protecting, administering, processing, using data, and ensuring data security and safety are undertaken by the Ministry of Public Security as the focal agency responsible before the Government for performing state management of these activities (except for the scope of state management of the Ministry of National Defense).

Meanwhile, the delegate pointed out that digital transformation activities stipulated in Article 6 of the draft Law include many different activities; at the same time, in Article 47 of the draft Law on state management of digital transformation, the Ministry of Science and Technology is the focal point for state management of digital transformation activities (including management and supervision of digital transformation activities ), which is an overlap and inconsistent with the provisions of the Data Law.

Therefore, delegate Tran Thi Thu Phuoc requested the drafting agency to review, revise, and clearly separate the responsibilities of presiding over and coordinating with relevant agencies in the digital transformation work stipulated in the draft Law to ensure consistency and consistency with the legal system.

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