Creating new value from digital data

SGGP October 10, 2023 07:26

Vietnam has been implementing e-Government since 2000, and by 2020 it had begun to move into the digital transformation phase, marked by the issuance of the National Digital Transformation Program, which clearly identified three pillars: Digital Government, digital economy and digital society.

In order to accelerate the implementation of national digital transformation tasks, effectively implement the National Digital Transformation Program to 2025, with a vision to 2030; raise awareness of the whole society about the role, significance and benefits of digital transformation, October 10 every year is chosen by the Prime Minister as National Digital Transformation Day. In 2023, National Digital Transformation Day has the theme "Exploiting digital data to create value".

The 4th industrial revolution with global digitalization makes data more and more important. A series of new high-tech industries are born on the basis of digital data such as artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), big data, blockchain...

Digital data is considered the most important, valuable and unlimited resource for any country in the current global digital age. In Vietnam, digital data is increasingly recognized more fully. In early 2023, the Ministry of Information and Communications identified the following goals: protecting personal data; publishing and building databases at the ministerial and local levels; opening data for connection and sharing; ensuring data security; building large national data centers; processing digital data to create new value for the economy.

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

Specifically, the rate of ministries, branches and localities issuing a list of databases under their management and specific plans and roadmaps for building and deploying databases in the new list reached 52.3%. Along with that, only 19.7% of ministries, branches and localities issued plans on open data, including a list of open data, plans to publish open data of State agencies under their management and the minimum level to be achieved in each stage of the plan.

According to the synthesis of the National Digital Transformation Agency (Ministry of Information and Communications), of the 8 main indicators on digital data of the national digital data year, up to 5 indicators have not yet reached 50% of the requirements; the rate of ministries and provinces providing data sharing services on the integrated and data sharing platform by August 2023 is only 14%, while the target set for this year is 100%.

Also by August, the rate of ministries, branches and localities deploying the electronic data warehouse function to handle administrative procedures at the ministry and provincial levels so that people and businesses only have to provide information once to state agencies when performing online public services was 60.5%, while the target set for this year is 80%...

According to experts, in addition to promoting the responsibility of ministries, branches and localities in implementing the above goals, it is necessary to develop a national strategy on data. In particular, clearly define the model and role of data development and exploitation of ministries, branches and localities; perfect the policy on data classification, have a mechanism for data exploitation; at the same time, it is necessary to have a list of priority data. That is the basis for relevant parties to implement together when developing and exploiting digital data. Classifying data at the correct level plays an extremely important role in information security, cost savings and effective operation of government agencies. It is necessary to clearly and legally stipulate: which data the State, ministries, branches and localities "hold"; which data must be shared; which data all people have the right to access...

All how to be able to evaluate and make decisions based on data through the effective application of digital technologies and digital data. Data is important, but the effective processing and exploitation of that data is more important. Digital data resources are born, created, need to be shared, exploited to create new, higher, stronger values; to serve people, businesses and the management and administration of the Government. That is really the path and destination of the digital transformation process.

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