Removing institutional and policy obstacles for digital transformation

The issuance of the Decree amending and supplementing Decree No. 73/2019/ND-CP demonstrates the Government 's attention, close direction, and determination in removing institutional and policy obstacles for digital transformation implementation.

With Decree 82, investment, procurement, and rental of software services necessary for the needs of ministries, central agencies, sectors, and localities have been strongly and clearly institutionalized.

Accordingly, specialized ministries are responsible for reviewing, developing, and announcing the list and basic functions and technical features of popular software in industries, sectors, and fields; the Ministry of Information and Communications is responsible for reviewing, developing, and announcing the list and basic functions and technical features of popular national software; organizations and individuals providing popular software are responsible for publicly announcing popular software products that they have built and developed that meet those basic functions and technical features.

The Decree has been amended and removed the provisions on funding limits; allowing the competent authority to decide on investment to decide on the design plan of investment projects on information systems, hardware, software, and databases to ensure effective project management and implementation, applicable to both investment projects applying information technology using development investment funds and activities of investment and procurement of information systems, hardware, software, and databases using regular expenditure funds.

The Decree supplements the concept of "information technology equipment", including hardware, software and databases, thereby resolving difficulties in transferring State budget sources for purchasing goods and information technology equipment; at the same time, affirming that the construction, development, upgrading and expansion of internal software are activities of purchasing information technology equipment.

In particular, Decree No. 82/2024/ND-CP not only does not create additional administrative procedures between State agencies in investment, procurement, and leasing of information technology services, but also reduces and simplifies 2 more internal administrative procedures. Currently, the administrative procedures in Decree No. 73/2019/ND-CP and Decree No. 82/2024/ND-CP are the minimum necessary procedures related to the submission, appraisal, and approval of information technology investment projects and information technology application activities.

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