Guidelines for developing a Digital Transformation Plan with the key task of developing the digital economy and digital society

In guiding ministries, branches and localities to develop digital transformation plans for 2025, the Ministry of Information and Communications once again emphasized the viewpoint of taking people and businesses as the center, subject and goal of digital transformation, especially the development of digital economy and digital society, thereby promoting the implementation of tasks and solutions such as universalizing digital identification; electronic payment; electronic invoices; digital signatures and digital signature authentication,... in sectors, fields of life, and socio-economic activities.

Guidelines for developing a Digital Transformation Plan with the key task of developing the digital economy and digital society (illustrative photo)

Developing digital technology enterprises, promoting the application of digital transformation in enterprises with the development of concentrated information technology zones, especially in localities with good information technology human resources, green and renewable energy infrastructure and convenient traffic and tourism conditions; supporting businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, to transform digitally. Developing the digital economy in the field of e-commerce by transforming the operating models of retail stores, grocery stores and traditional markets; handicraft villages based on digital technology and digital data; forming links, digitalized supply chains throughout the process from goods distribution, warehouse management to business administration, and commerce on digital channels; Promoting tax management, continuing to provide electronic tax services to support electronic tax declaration and payment, deploying electronic invoice solutions for e-commerce activities, and livestreaming sales on digital technology platforms. Build a risk management model for organizations and individuals doing e-commerce and livestream sales; promote the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to process big data, give warnings in cases of tax risks; Thoroughly deploy electronic invoice solutions initiated from cash registers for food and beverage services, prevent tax and budget losses; Prioritize the development and promotion of the use of digital transformation platforms in the wholesale and retail sectors.

Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visits the digital transformation technology display of several banks at the Banking Industry Digital Transformation Conference_Photo: VNA (illustrative photo)

For digital economic development in the agricultural sector, focusing on smart agriculture, precision agriculture, increasing the proportion of digital agriculture in the economy, deploying and applying technological solutions for cultivation, livestock and aquaculture to bring high productivity and economic value. Strengthening the connection of digital technology applications between cooperatives with agricultural growing areas, production and processing facilities and digital channels for consuming agricultural products to form a complete digital agricultural production chain from production to distribution and consumption of products; Forming an agricultural supply chain and tracing the origin of agricultural products from farming to reaching consumers; Organizing the construction of agricultural sector data sets and data usage scenarios. Regarding the development of digital economy in the field of culture and tourism, such as developing the digital tourism economy in the direction of applying technology to optimize the management, operation, exploitation and business activities of accommodation establishments, scenic spots, tourist areas, entertainment areas, cultural heritage conservation areas imbued with national identity; Through a shared tourism management and business platform, solving tourism management and business problems at the local and national level, each locality has accurate, real-time statistics on the number of tourists arriving and staying in their province; Organizing the collection, digitization, formation of data warehouses and digital libraries for national culture and arts, cultural heritages, national relics, special national relics... Building big data warehouses and scenarios for using data on tourists and tourist consumption behavior; Big data on tourism programs, tours, accommodation establishments, tourism service businesses serving the common exploitation and use for tourism development. Developing the digital economy in the logistics sector such as developing the digital economy in the logistics sector in the direction of applying technology to optimize logistics costs throughout the entire process of transporting goods from seaports, border gates, warehouses, yards, ports to consumers and vice versa; Expanding the service of collecting fees, prices and other service fees related to road vehicle traffic activities through traffic accounts to promote cashless payments in the transport sector. For the development of digital economy in the field of manufacturing and processing industry such as the development of digital economy in the field of processing and manufacturing industry in the direction of applying advanced and modern digital technology platforms to convert factories into smart factories, using clean energy, renewable energy, minimizing emissions to the environment, in line with the green development trend in the world. Piloting the smart factory model in a number of processing and manufacturing industrial factories where Vietnam has advantages such as: textiles, agricultural processing; automating stages of the production and business process, from the stage of checking raw materials, processing, production, assembly to the stage of quality control and packaging. Developing a digital economy linked to finance and banking includes applying data to improve financial risk prevention capacity, promoting digital financial development, promoting effective sharing and circulation of financial credit data, public credit data and commercial credit data on the basis of legal compliance and safety, supporting the sharing of risk control data between financial institutions and integrating multi-dimensional financial data analysis such as markets, credit assets and risk verification to fully promote the promoting role of financial technology and data elements to support and improve the anti-fraud and anti-money laundering capabilities of financial institutions and improve the level of risk warning and prevention. Regarding the development of a digital economy linked to resources, environment, green, sustainable in which organizations implement digitalization, develop big data warehouses and data usage scenarios in the field of environmental resources, including: national geographic background; national land; remote sensing; hydrometeorology; climate change; environment; waste sources; biodiversity; water resources; geology, minerals; marine and island resources and environment; resource and environmental monitoring.

Kim Oanh