Synchronously and drastically implement solutions to promote digital transformation, creating momentum for economic growth

On the morning of July 19, the Government Standing Committee held an online conference on digital transformation with ministers, heads of sectors, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities. Comrade Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Prime Minister - Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation (CĐS) chaired the conference.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation, chaired the Government Standing Committee Conference on digital transformation with ministers, heads of sectors, and chairmen of provincial and municipal People's Committees. Photo: Duong Giang - VNA

Comrade Mai Xuan Liem, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Thanh Hoa Provincial Steering Committee for Digital Transformation, and delegates attended the conference at the Thanh Hoa provincial bridge.

Attending the conference at the Thanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee Headquarters were comrade Mai Xuan Liem, member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Thanh Hoa Provincial Steering Committee for Digital Transformation, and representatives of leaders of functional departments and branches.

Delegates attending the conference at Thanh Hoa province bridge.

According to the report of the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), in order to promote and create a legal framework for digital transformation activities, in recent times, the MIC, ministries, branches and localities have made efforts, determined, focused on leadership and direction to perfect institutions to create a legal corridor, creating development in the new space (digital space).

In the process of implementing digital transformation, many new contents and issues that have not existed before have been jointly resolved by ministries, branches and localities, perfecting the legal environment for implementation such as: On full-process online public services; on handling administrative procedures in the electronic environment; on connecting and sharing data in state agencies; on online bidding; on electronic identification and authentication; on electronic storage...

Conference locations (screenshot).

Regarding data sharing and connection, in 2020, the total number of data sharing and connection transactions was 11.5 million transactions via the national data integration and sharing platform. By 2024, the national data integration and sharing platform recorded 95 connection points of agencies and units. The total transactions up to July 16, 2024 were 533 million (equal to 85% of the total number of transactions in 2023); the cumulative number was 2.3 billion transactions.

Regarding digital economic development, Vietnam is considered the country with the fastest digital economic growth rate in Southeast Asia for two consecutive years (28% in 2022 and 19% in 2023), 3.5 times higher than the GDP growth rate.

Regarding the development of digital society, the report of the Ministry of Information and Communications clearly stated: The situation of digital society in the period of 2022 - 2024 has positive changes, in which the proportion of adults with digital signatures or electronic signatures increased from 3% to 13.5% (nearly 4 times higher); the proportion of the population aged 15 and over with payment transaction accounts at banks or other licensed organizations reached 87.08% (an increase of 20% compared to 2020).

Overview of the conference at Thanh Hoa province bridge.

Regarding digital citizen development, by December 2023, the Ministry of Public Security had issued over 84.7 million chip-embedded citizen identification cards. 45.4 million identification accounts had been activated (reaching 67.5% of the total number of applications received). 34 localities had completed the issuance of electronic identification accounts and had the highest electronic identification activation rate in the country. The VNeID application has been integrated with additional utilities such as: electronic health book; driver's license; electronic wallet; declaration, registration, tax payment; social insurance book information and many other utilities...

In addition to the achieved results, the report also pointed out some shortcomings and limitations in the implementation of digital transformation related to online public service activities throughout the ministries, sectors and localities; on digital economic development; the construction of shared databases and platforms...

At the conference, delegates also heard a representative of the Ministry of Public Security briefly report on the results and "bottlenecks" in implementing Project 06 on developing applications of population data, identification and electronic authentication to serve national digital transformation in the period of 2022 - 2025, with a vision to 2030.

Discussing at the meeting, representatives of ministries, branches and localities analyzed and clarified the advantages, difficulties and challenges in digital transformation work. At the same time, they shared experiences, pointed out new and urgent contents, and proposed solutions that ministries, branches and localities need to implement in the coming time.

Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh commended and appreciated the participation and drastic direction of ministries, branches, localities, and the support of the business community and people in implementing the digital transformation policy in recent times.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation, speaks at the conference. Photo: Duong Giang - VNA

The Prime Minister emphasized: Digital transformation has become an inevitable and irreversible trend at the international, regional and national levels. Digital transformation has reached "every alley, every house, every person", the digital economy has permeated all production, business and consumption activities, fundamentally and profoundly changing socio-economic activities. Therefore, ministries, branches and localities need to unify their thinking, methodology and approach to act together, raise awareness, identify goals, viewpoints, tasks and solutions that are correct, accurate and feasible, organize effective implementation, save the most time and costs but achieve the highest efficiency, strongly promote the national digital transformation process, build a digital government, digital society, digital citizens, and develop a digital economy.

The Prime Minister stated: The important tasks now are to promote economic growth, stabilize the macro-economy, control inflation, ensure major balances of the economy, restructure the economy, and strive to complete the goals set for the entire term. These tasks are closely related to industrialization and modernization.

Faced with that requirement and significance, along with the identified shortcomings, limitations, and causes of the shortcomings and limitations, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that Ministers, Heads of sectors, and Chairmen of People's Committees of centrally-run provinces and cities take the lead and set an example in promoting digital transformation with the highest determination to effectively carry out the following tasks: Developing digital human resources, digital citizens, digital skills and digital talents. Prioritizing resources for digital transformation, for the development of digital economy, digital society, digital citizens, and digital government. Developing comprehensive, appropriate, economical, and effective digital infrastructure. Management and operation must be digitalized. Urgently perfecting mechanisms, policies, and institutions for digital transformation in the direction of enhancing decentralization, delegation of authority, and promoting creativity and initiative of all levels and sectors.

The Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities to carry out assigned tasks in the spirit of "5 pushes", "5 guarantees" associated with "5 nos" - Do not say no, do not say difficult; do not say difficult but do not do; do not discuss backward, only discuss; do not leave anyone behind in the national digital transformation process; do not use cash, move towards all transactions through electronic methods to prevent and combat corruption and harassment; do not use paperwork, move towards digitalization and do not let people and businesses waste a lot of time, effort and money.

The Prime Minister emphasized a number of key tasks and solutions that need to be focused on in the coming time and assigned responsibilities to each ministry, sector and locality in improving the effectiveness of digital transformation in the coming time. At the same time, he requested that the Ministers, sector leaders, and Chairmen of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally-run cities continue to make efforts and strive together to successfully carry out the assigned tasks, ensuring the harmony of interests between the State, people and businesses.

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