Promote comprehensive digital economic and digital social development in all sectors and fields for comprehensive social development

In that context, the digital economy is becoming an important characteristic and development trend, being researched, applied and developed by many countries. For Vietnam, developing the digital economy is a great opportunity to narrow the development gap. At the same time, developing the digital economy and digital society comprehensively in all sectors and fields to develop a comprehensive society.

In which, developing digital economy and digital society in the direction of digital agriculture is associated with ecological agriculture, circular agriculture, modern countryside, professional and civilized farmers such as building and organizing the implementation of the Action Plan for developing digital economy and digital society in the field of agriculture and rural areas, shifting from agricultural production to digital agricultural economy; launching and attracting a wave of technology enterprises to invest in serving agriculture and rural development; developing digital platforms to serve the needs of farmers; developing crop insurance services, risk prevention for farmers.

High-quality human resources are an important requirement for developing the digital economy in Vietnam_Photo: VNA

Build and deploy a digital agricultural data platform in which state agencies play a leading role, cooperatives and agricultural enterprises play a core role, and farmers actively participate in collecting, standardizing, opening data and providing open data to serve agricultural production and consumption of agricultural products; promptly providing information, consulting, and forecasting the situation for farmers. Build and deploy a digital platform connecting farmers with agricultural experts to collect and label data in the form of community contributions, applying artificial intelligence in supporting analysis, early detection of diseases for crops and livestock to have timely treatment plans.

Build and deploy a platform for tracing agricultural products to allow checking the origin, source, production process, and quality standards of agricultural products. Build and update a set of national criteria for new rural areas, national criteria for hunger eradication and poverty reduction, especially for ethnic minority and mountainous areas with criteria for developing digital government, digital economy, and digital society. Organize and deploy a model of digital transformation villages and digital transformation communes, in which the key task is to link e-commerce development with the national program of one product per commune.

Regarding the development of digital economy and digital society in the direction of digital health , connecting the network of medical examination and treatment facilities from the central to the communal level and with the people, such as building and organizing the implementation of the Action Plan for the development of digital economy and digital society in the health sector, promoting and encouraging large hospitals to be digital technology enterprises in health; launching and attracting a wave of technology enterprises to invest in digital health; popularizing health care services and remote medical examination and treatment consultation. Building and organizing the implementation of a platform to support remote medical examination and treatment consultation connecting hospitals with hospitals, upper-level hospitals with lower-level hospitals, from the central to the grassroots level, helping to reduce the load on medical facilities, timely medical examination and treatment, saving time and costs.

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Develop and implement electronic medical records to move towards not using paper medical records, paying hospital fees without cash; deploy a national electronic prescription management platform at all public and private medical examination and treatment facilities nationwide; develop smart medical management platforms based on digital technology, integrate information and data, and form a national medical database. Develop and implement a unified testing management platform nationwide. Test results in electronic medical records are mutually recognized among medical examination and treatment facilities; develop and implement a commune health station management platform for all communes nationwide.

Developing the digital economy and digital society in the direction of educational and training institutions pioneering the application of digital technology, creating an environment to form a generation of digital citizens and digital entrepreneurs for the future, such as building and organizing the implementation of the Action Plan for developing the digital economy and digital society in the field of education and training; promoting and encouraging large educational and training institutions and large universities to also be digital technology enterprises in education and training; launching and attracting a wave of technology enterprises to invest in the field of digital education and training.

Build and deploy an online teaching and learning platform, connect and provide online services for the entire teaching - learning - examination process for students, teachers, thereby forming an ecosystem for developing digital education, ensuring the quality of online examinations. Search and apply products and services of educational technology enterprises (Edtech) in teaching. Create a pilot mechanism for new breakthrough products and services, supporting fast and effective training.

In developing the digital economy and digital society, it is necessary to accelerate the implementation of electronic transactions in the fields of labor, employment and social security; create and maintain a complete and timely updated database of workers and policy beneficiaries nationwide, such as developing and organizing the implementation of an action plan for developing the digital economy and digital society in the fields of labor, employment and social security; promote and encourage forms of electronic transactions, electronic certificates, online or direct social security payments to beneficiaries, and eliminate unnecessary intermediaries.

Build and deploy a digital data platform on labor, employment and social security in which state agencies play a leading role, employers play a core role and employees and citizens actively participate in collecting, standardizing, opening data and providing open data to serve analysis, forecasting, publishing labor market information and implementing social security policies. Form an electronic labor contract platform and promote employees and employers to sign electronic labor contracts. Build and deploy electronic labor books for employees.

Especially in the development of digital economy and digital society in commerce towards streamlining and increasing the efficiency of the supply chain, contributing to modernizing the business cycle and enhancing the competitiveness of enterprises, promoting the development of domestic and export markets such as managing and monitoring the activities of e-commerce platforms; combating counterfeit goods and protecting consumers in online e-commerce transactions; building a healthy, competitive and sustainable e-commerce market. Building and organizing the implementation of the e-commerce promotion program in rural areas with development potential: convenient logistics infrastructure, many unique agricultural products, handicrafts and fine arts; strengthening e-commerce linkages between regions;

Developing e-commerce platforms through value chains, connecting large manufacturers, small and medium-sized distributors, wholesalers and retail channels, e-commerce companies together to form the supply chain, promoting e-commerce applications to support key export industries, expanding consumption of domestic goods and promoting e-commerce development in localities, strengthening the construction of infrastructure systems and services to support e-commerce development.

Developing digital economy and digital society in industry and energy in the direction of establishing a suitable environment for innovation, strengthening strategic direction and flexibly exploiting financial resources for digital transformation support activities such as building and organizing the implementation of a mechanism to coordinate digital transformation support activities for industrial manufacturing enterprises; implementing representative and feasible sample digital transformation projects, thereby leading the digital transformation and innovation movement of manufacturing enterprises.

Build and deploy a digital platform connecting manufacturing enterprises with technology experts and professional solution providers to support businesses in digital transformation; strengthen business linkages according to advanced cooperation models between manufacturing enterprises and domestic and international partners to create new values, share service networks and data and information resources;

Building and forming research centers/institutes on technology serving production, focusing on digital transformation of source technologies and core technologies of the manufacturing and processing industries to improve efficiency, productivity and quality of the manufacturing and processing industries, contributing to improving the competitiveness of enterprises and industrial products manufactured by domestic enterprises;

For tourism in the development of digital economy and digital society in the direction of providing full information and online experiences to tourists before and during the trip in real time, at the same time building and organizing the implementation of the Action Plan for developing digital economy and digital society in the tourism sector, each tourism enterprise is a digital technology application enterprise; launching and attracting a wave of technology enterprises to invest in tourism services; developing digital platforms connecting supply and demand for tourism.

Building and organizing the implementation of a tourism management and business platform, serving digital transformation for tourism businesses, connecting businesses providing domestic tourism products and services with distributors, online travel agents and large online travel trading floors, supporting tourism businesses to connect, innovate in tourism business activities, creating attractive tourism packages for each tourist segment. Developing a smart tourism ecosystem; applying digital technology to connect to support and enhance the experience for tourists; expanding the capacity to provide services combining real and digital channels; maximizing the use of electronic transactions in tourism activities; applying modern technology to develop software and smart utilities to support the management and service of tourists.

In the field of natural resources and environment, developing green economy, circular economy, using renewable and low-carbon energy, environmentally friendly construction and implementation of digital infrastructure, digital data platform for natural resources and environment, prioritizing the construction of national land data platform, open national digital map to ensure the provision and sharing of data, information, forming new services and business models, effectively exploiting the digital ecosystem of natural resources and environment, contributing digital platforms to the development of digital economy and digital society./.

Cong Dao