Prime Minister requests integration of a series of essential utilities onto VNeID

Government leaders requested the integration of a series of essential utilities into the VNeID application by allowing people to update and authenticate personal data.

On the afternoon of July 12, chairing a national online conference on digital transformation, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that personal data that needs to be updated on the VNeID application includes education level, family relationships, driver's license, bank account, electricity, water, telecommunications, civil servants, public employees, party members, etc.

Type 3 urban areas (cities or towns under provinces with inner-city wards, inner-city towns and suburban and suburban communes) are assigned to soon conduct pilot research on integrating social management applications on VNeID such as crime reporting, fire prevention, traffic safety, environmental protection, temporary residence and temporary absence declaration.

Utilities for citizens such as issuing criminal records, electronic health books, birth certificates, marriage, divorce, banking services, and utilities for vulnerable groups (the elderly, children, and meritorious people) also need to be integrated into the application.

The head of the Government requested the Ministry of Public Security to accelerate the issuance of level 2 electronic identification accounts, striving to have 20 million VNeID users with at least 10 applications by the end of this year. The Ministry must also study and propose the construction of a National Data Center by the end of 2024; build a national population database coordination center to process, authenticate, look up, integrate and share data.

The Ministry of Public Security has been assigned to deploy biometric authentication technology on chip-embedded citizen identification cards at hospitals to shorten procedures. Biometric authentication technology will also serve passengers checking in for domestic flights. "The Ministry needs to soon develop and submit to the National Assembly for promulgation the Law on Personal Data Protection," the Prime Minister said.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. Photo: Nhat Bac — Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. Photo: *Nhat Bac*

He assigned the Ministry of Finance to synchronize data, use citizen identification, electronic identification as tax code and identification in electronic transactions. All businesses in the food and beverage sector, restaurants, hotels, entertainment, supermarkets, and shopping centers must connect electronic invoices. Birth registration, permanent residence, health insurance card issuance for children under 6 years old, death registration, cancellation of permanent residence registration, and funeral allowance will be implemented nationwide and interconnected.

"2023 is the year of creating and exploiting data to create new values with the key task of digitizing, building, connecting, and sharing data between ministries, branches, and localities, to better serve people and businesses," said the Prime Minister.

According to a report by the Ministry of Information and Communications, the digital economy accounted for 15.2% of GDP in the first half of 2023. The national population database has connected, shared, authenticated, and cleaned data with 13 ministries and 63 localities with more than one billion searches and exploitations. 41 million bank credit information has been cleaned. Citizen identification cards have initially replaced ATMs with 17,000 uses. Currently, nearly 8 million accounts and 20.7 million applications have been submitted on the National Public Service Portal.

Digital transformation rankings of localities. Photo: VGP — Digital transformation rankings of localities. Photo: *VGP*

At the conference, the Ministry of Information and Communications announced the index and rankings assessing the level of digital transformation in 2022 of localities and ministries.

Accordingly, Da Nang leads the country in all three criteria: digital government, digital economy, and digital society. The Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment take the lead among ministries and ministerial-level agencies in digital transformation.

Viet Tuan

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