Lang Son : Achievements come from innovation efforts

Director of Lang Son Department of Information and Communications Mr. Nguyen Trong Hung said that Lang Son Department of Information and Communications advised the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee to issue Resolution No. 49-NQ/TU on digital transformation of Lang Son province by 2025, with a vision to 2030. The Resolution has 5 pillars: digital transformation in Party agencies, digital government, digital economy, digital society and digital border gates.

On that basis, the Department of Information and Communications of Lang Son has advised the Provincial People's Committee to issue programs and plans to implement and advise on tasks and projects on information technology application, digital transformation in all fields such as education , health, natural resources and environment, construction, transportation, ... to support businesses, government activities at all levels, border gate economy. In which, the above fields all apply digital signatures, administrative procedure documents with virtual assistants, reducing paper procedures.

In addition, the Department of Information and Communications of Lang Son is presiding over the pilot implementation of a virtual assistant to support cadres, civil servants and public employees in their work called "Lang Son Digital Civil Service Platform" at the Department of Information and Communications, Department of Construction, Department of Health, and People's Committee of Chi Lang district. Initially, positive results have been achieved, effectively supporting leaders and civil servants of agencies and units in performing their tasks.

In addition, the digital inspection platform is being piloted at 5 agencies such as the Provincial Inspectorate, Department of Planning and Investment, Department of Information and Communications, Cao Loc District People's Committee and Lang Son City People's Committee.

Up to now, Lang Son province has had a strong change in digital transformation and has achieved a number of achievements. The tasks on the 5 pillars of digital transformation have been completed relatively synchronously, completely, and clearly showing the digital transformation model of Lang Son province.

With efforts in digital transformation, Lang Son province has completed 22/30 targets of Resolution No. 49-NQ/TU on digital transformation of Lang Son province by 2025, with a vision to 2030, and was evaluated and ranked by the Ministry of Information and Communications in the digital transformation index - DTI in 2022, ranked 6th out of 63 provinces and cities. The readiness index for development and application of information and communication technology (ICT-INDEX) in 2022 ranked 18th out of 63 provinces and cities.

In particular, Lang Son was honored as one of the top 5 provinces and cities in terms of ICT diffusion in other sectors and economic activities.

The Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations has scored and voted Lang Son province to win the "Top Industry 4.0 Vietnam 2024" award. The Vietnam Digital Communications Association has scored and voted Lang Son to win the Vietnam Digital Transformation Award 2024 (VietNam Digital Awards-VDA). This is the third consecutive year that Lang Son has been voted by the Digital Communications Association as an excellent digital transformation locality.

The passion and responsibility of a leader

Lang Son Department of Information and Communications is the standing agency of the Provincial Steering Committee for Digital Transformation, therefore, the responsibility of the head of the Department of Information and Communications must be even higher. And Mr. Nguyen Trong Hung always considers digital transformation as a daily task, through the use of digital tools to discover the needs for innovation and continuously set new requirements for the province's digital transformation.

The Director of the Department of Information and Communications of Lang Son is also aware that in the era of rapid technological development, colleagues, civil servants and public employees may know more than themselves, so they need to listen more and learn more. When there is a new idea or when a superior assigns a task, the first thing to do is to hold a meeting to deploy and disseminate plans and tasks to be implemented. At the same time, organize meetings so that everyone can freely express their opinions and then find solutions, and filter good ideas from everyone.

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Mr. Nguyen Trong Hung received the award "Community Digital Technology Team Model in Lang Son Province" and the "Digital Transformation in Education and Training Sector of Lang Son" solution award from the Vietnam Digital Communications Association. Photo: Department of Information and Communications of Lang Son

With such enthusiasm, after many years of work, the Department of Information and Communications of Lang Son, including Mr. Nguyen Trong Hung, has received many certificates of merit from the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Information and Communications, the People's Committee of Lang Son province and other agencies and units.

Notably, in 2023, Mr. Nguyen Trong Hung was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Prime Minister for Outstanding Digital Transformation at the National Conference to commend and honor outstanding examples.

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Mr. Nguyen Trong Hung received the award from the Vietnam Digital Communications Association. Photo: Lang Son Department of Information and Communications

The head of the Department of Information and Communications of Lang Son said, "In the coming time, the Department of Information and Communications of Lang Son, with the responsibility of being the standing agency for digital transformation of the province, will strive to promote its leading role in digital transformation for all sectors and fields in the whole province. Continue to advise the Provincial People's Committee to synchronously and strongly implement to improve the quality of indicators, so that digital transformation brings the most substantial values ​​to people and businesses, actively contributing to the work of socio-economic development, national defense and security in the province".

Pham Cong