The Law on Digital Transformation has come into effect.

The Law on Digital Transformation, effective from July 1st, sets out regulations on digital transformation, promoting digital government, digital economy, and digital society in Vietnam.

The Law on Digital Transformation, effective from July 1st, sets out regulations on digital transformation, promoting digital government, digital economy , and digital society in Vietnam. The law was passed by the National Assembly in December 2025, comprising 8 chapters and 48 articles. This is also the first time Vietnam has had a Law on Digital Transformation, replacing the 2006 Law on Information Technology. The law includes principles and policies on digital transformation; national coordination on digital transformation; measures to ensure digital transformation; digital government; digital economy and digital society; and the responsibilities of agencies, organizations, and individuals in digital transformation. According to the law, digital transformation is defined as "the process of transforming operating methods, governance, and service provision based on digital technology , digital data, digital systems, digital platforms, and digital processes to create new, efficient, and transparent value." This also marks the first time that many concepts such as digital infrastructure, digital citizens, digital capabilities, digital society, and digital economy have been uniformly defined in a single legal document. One of the key points in the law is its user-centric approach. "Promoting innovation, putting users at the center, improving service quality, and creating new value for agencies, organizations, businesses, and citizens," the principles section states. The law also emphasizes the principle of "one-time declaration is the default." Accordingly, state agencies need to strengthen data connectivity, sharing, and reuse to limit the need for citizens and businesses to repeatedly provide the same information when carrying out administrative procedures.

Citizens complete procedures at the Hai Phong City Public Administrative Service Center, taking numbers from the task allocation machine, May 12. Photo: Le Tan Luat. The law also introduces many policies to support businesses, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, cooperatives, and business households in the digital transformation process. The State encourages the development of shared digital platforms and domestic digital technology products, promotes innovation, and provides a controlled testing mechanism for new technologies and business models. For citizens, the law outlines rights in the digital environment, including the right to protection of personal data, access to basic digital skills, fair and safe access to digital services, and the right to protection when legitimate rights are violated in the digital environment. The State simultaneously has a policy to narrow the digital divide, ensuring the allocation of resources "higher than the national average" for ethnic minority areas, mountainous regions, border areas, islands, and areas with difficult or extremely difficult socio-economic conditions. According to the law, to ensure resources for implementation, the state budget allocated to digital transformation annually must be at least 1% of the total budget expenditure, while also encouraging the mobilization of social resources for this activity. Along with the law, Government Decree No. 224 dated June 24th, detailing some provisions and measures for implementing the Law on Digital Transformation, will also take effect from July 1st. The Decree sets out regulations for implementing the law, such as: strategies, programs, and plans for digital transformation; providing online information and public services; principles of architecture, design, and minimum requirements for digital systems; The tasks include allocating state budget funds and decentralizing expenditure responsibilities between the central and local budgets for digital transformation... In particular, online public services are provided in a unified, centralized model from the central to local levels on the National Public Service Portal. Online public services, when provided in the digital environment, are standardized and synchronized in terms of service codes and names according to regulations on administrative procedure codes and names, interconnected administrative procedures, and groups of administrative procedures as stipulated by the law on administrative procedure control; electronic forms are provided; and instructions on usage are given to organizations and individuals.

Source: https://khcn.nghean.gov.vn/tin-hoat-dong-khcn/luat-chuyen-doi-so-co-hieu-luc-1029156