Creating new value from digital data.

SGGP 10/10/2023 07:26

Vietnam began implementing e-government in 2000, and by 2020 started transitioning to digital transformation, marked by the promulgation of the National Digital Transformation Program, which clearly defines three pillars: digital government, digital economy , and digital society.

To accelerate the implementation of national digital transformation tasks, effectively carry out the National Digital Transformation Program until 2025, with a vision to 2030; and raise awareness among the entire society about the role, significance, and benefits of digital transformation, October 10th each year has been chosen by the Prime Minister as National Digital Transformation Day. In 2023, the theme of National Digital Transformation Day was "Leveraging Digital Data to Create Value".

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, with its global digitalization, has made data increasingly important. A host of new, high-tech industries have emerged based on digital data, such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and blockchain.

Digital data is considered the most important, valuable, and unlimited resource for any country in today's era of global digitalization. In Vietnam, the full understanding of digital data is growing. At the beginning of 2023, the Ministry of Information and Communications set the following goals: protecting personal data; publishing and building databases at the ministerial and local levels; opening data for connectivity and sharing; ensuring data security; building large national data centers; and processing digital data to create new value for the economy.

According to Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung, creating data and exploiting that data to create new value is the fundamental difference of digital transformation today. However, the Ministry of Information and Communications has just warned of the risk that ministries, sectors, and localities may not complete the tasks on developing, exploiting, and using digital data assigned by the Prime Minister, Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation, in the 2023 action plan - "the year of national data".

Specifically, the percentage of ministries, sectors, and localities that have issued lists of databases under their management and specific plans and roadmaps for building and deploying the databases in the list has only reached 52.3%. In addition, only 19.7% of ministries, sectors, and localities have issued plans on open data, including lists of open data, plans for publishing open data of state agencies under their management, and the minimum levels to be achieved in each stage of the plan.

According to a summary by the National Digital Transformation Agency (Ministry of Information and Communications), out of the eight key indicators for the national digital data year, five indicators have yet to reach 50% of the set requirements; the percentage of ministries and provinces providing data sharing services on integrated data sharing platforms was only 14% by August 2023, while the target for this year was 100%.

Also by August, the percentage of ministries, sectors, and localities implementing the electronic data warehouse function to handle administrative procedures at the ministerial and provincial levels, so that citizens and businesses only have to provide information once to state agencies when using online public services, was 60.5%, while the target set for this year was 80%...

According to experts, in addition to promoting the responsibility of ministries, sectors, and localities in achieving the above goals, a national data strategy needs to be developed. This strategy should clearly define the model and role of ministries, sectors, and localities in building and exploiting data; refine policies on data classification and establish mechanisms for data exploitation; and create a list of priority data. This will serve as a basis for all stakeholders to work together when developing and exploiting digital data. Accurate data classification is crucial for information security, cost savings, and the efficient operation of government agencies. Clear, legally binding regulations are needed: which data should be kept exclusively by the State, ministries, and localities; which data must be shared; and which data should be accessible to all citizens.

The key is how to evaluate and make data-driven decisions through the effective application of digital technologies and data. Data is important, but processing and utilizing that data effectively is even more crucial. Digital data resources, once created, need to be shared and exploited to generate new, higher, and more powerful values; to serve the people, businesses, and the government's management and administration. That is truly the path and destination of the digital transformation process.

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