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According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communications, the city's digital economy development targets for 2025 include an annual GRDP (gross regional product) growth of approximately 8%; the service sector's share of GRDP exceeding 60%; and the digital economy contributing 25% (in 2025) and 40% (in 2030) of GRDP. Therefore, digital data plays a crucial role, and Ho Chi Minh City has a clear strategy regarding this resource.
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| Patients register for medical examinations at Thu Duc City Hospital using electronic medical records. Photo: HOANG HUNG |
As a core asset
In the implementation plan for the "Digital Transformation Program of Ho Chi Minh City" and the "Building Ho Chi Minh City into a Smart City" project in 2023, state agencies are focusing on activities to develop, connect, share, exploit, and analyze data to serve digital transformation, the development of digital government , digital economy, and digital society with various orientations. Specifically, data is shared with many users and a secure data exchange mechanism is being built to support and control data sharing services across the city. Currently, many departments, sectors, districts, and communes have actively implemented the development of digital data resources.
Specifically, the Ho Chi Minh City Social Insurance sector has linked data with medical examination and treatment facilities and handed over the entire database to the Health sector to build electronic health records and medical records; Binh Thanh district has updated the population data of 450,000 people in 120,000 households, serving as a basis for building socio-economic development plans and managing household registration.
In District 1, the digitization of civil registration data was completed in June 2021, and the process of revising and digitizing land and housing records is continuing to speed up and facilitate the handling of land and housing applications for citizens. The standardization of digital data, according to the data governance strategy, not only aims to serve management, the development of socio-economic plans, and simplify administrative procedures for citizens and businesses, but also allows citizens and businesses to access data and open data provided by state agencies (belonging to the data categories as stipulated) to support production and business activities.
According to Mr. Lam Dinh Thang, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communications, Ho Chi Minh City's data governance strategy is built on successful international practices, aligns with government policies, and is linked to the city's development goals. The fundamental principle of data governance is to create, maintain, ensure, and secure all of the city's important data assets. Data is "nourished" by specialized information systems, data repositories, master data centers, and data on people, businesses, land, space, etc., will be developed as core assets.
Complete the data by 2025.
Over the past period, Ho Chi Minh City has implemented numerous solutions to develop a smart city and digital transformation, identifying digital data as a foundation and key to comprehensive digital transformation, digital economic development, digital society building, and digital government building. On February 6, 2023, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City issued Decision No. 328/QD-UBND approving the Data Governance Strategy of Ho Chi Minh City until 2025, with a vision to 2030.
The strategy identifies specific tasks and results to be achieved from now until 2025, including deploying a shared data warehouse, implementing specialized and digitized information systems, effectively utilizing digitized data; providing unified, reliable, secure, and safe data for citizens, businesses, and researchers to exploit and use in order to create added value and contribute to the socio-economic development of the city…
According to Ms. Vo Thi Trung Trinh, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communications, achieving the goals of the data strategy requires the simultaneous implementation of multiple solutions, not just technical ones. Data generated from the activities of state management agencies plays a crucial role not only in improving the quality of public services for citizens and businesses and enhancing the efficiency of state management agencies, but also in promoting the development of the digital economy, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Therefore, state management agencies should aim to provide data to citizens and businesses in the form of open data.
“To achieve the above goals of open data provision, the city needs to continue improving regulations on open data provision, as well as creating more data. The issue of data provision by state management agencies must ensure compliance with industry regulations, protect personal data, and provide valuable, up-to-date data so that users can create added value from this data source. This is a challenge the city is continuing to address to implement the open data policy from state management agencies, contributing to promoting the development of the digital economy and digital society,” Ms. Vo Thi Trung Trinh shared.
Ho Chi Minh City has set specific targets for 2025 to effectively utilize data: 100% of land management, construction permit, and planning information systems will be uniformly established throughout the city; electronic health records of citizens will be created, along with social security data; data on the establishment and operation of businesses and individual business households; data on budget revenue and expenditure, and public investment disbursement; 100% of databases will be stored and managed at the city's Data Center, ensuring information security in accordance with regulations.
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