This morning (July 18), in Hanoi, attending the Vietnam ICT Summit 2018, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc clearly stated his political determination, his opinion of “action. Fast, big results, don’t be sure “,” think big, think overall, but start with the smallest but with great effect “in e-Government construction …

The Prime Minister spoke at the Vietnam Information and Communication Technology High-Level Forum. Photo: VGP / Quang Hieu

With the theme “Towards Digital Government and Digital Economy”, this is the 8th time that Vietnam ICT Summit has been held, with the participation of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and representatives of State agencies at central and local levels. methods as well as leading information technology units in the country.

Agreeing with the idea that this Forum is a forum of action and “we work together to act together successfully”, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc emphasized, first of all, to successfully build the Government. electronics to the digital government in Vietnam, “a topic we have been interested in for a long time, must embark on it now”.

The Prime Minister said that the world is moving from the era of electronics, automation and computerization to the era of digitalization, intelligence and artificial intelligence. “We see business models that are completely different from traditional ones like global media companies that do not own the copyright of any news, global taxi companies but do not own the car. However, the global hotel firm but does not own any hotel rooms… has been contributing to shaping a new economic era, the era of digital economy ”. Therefore, the Forum needs to discuss to create a deeper general awareness of the basic characteristics of the digital economy … from which to choose a suitable direction, to promote Vietnam’s competitive advantages in digital economic development.

The Prime Minister said that Industrial Revolution 4.0 opens up a new era in the development of mankind – the digital age is expected to have a strong impact on all activities of the Government and the whole society. This is a historic but challenging opportunity for national reform and development. According to the Prime Minister, in order not to miss this opportunity, first of all, the Government must reform and transform to become a Government of the 4.0 era, capable of managing national development in the digital age. At the same time, all levels, sectors and the whole society need to change from perception to action to bring into play the advantages brought about by the application of information technology and digital technology and to meet the challenges. formula of the digital economy.

With political determination, unanimous point of view “quick action, big results, don’t be sure”, “think big, think overall, but start with the smallest but with great effect”, the Government has assigned the Government Office to preside over drafting the Government’s Resolution on key tasks and solutions for e-Government development in the 2018-2020 period, with a vision to 2025, clearly defining the objectives and roles, specific responsibilities, roadmap and setting up an index system to monitor the effectiveness of the implementation, avoiding the situation of making a form that does not meet the requirements.

Prime Minister said that there are many opinions that it is necessary to build Vietnam’s digital economy around 3 main pillars. It is digital infrastructure and services, including hard infrastructure and telecommunications networks as the foundation to create soft infrastructure, digital services that help optimize activities of the economy. Next is digital resources including an open knowledge and data ecosystem that is useful for predicting timely and making decisions with high economic efficiency. And the third is the digital transformation policy, including services, policies on transition from e-government to digital government, high-quality training of human resources, digital business investment policy, information security books, digital ownership and intellectual property.

The Prime Minister also said that the building of an e-Government must be associated with the leading role, promoting the application of information technology in administrative reform, ensuring effective implementation. Therefore, Vietnam is establishing the National E-Government Committee directly directed by the Prime Minister; Committee members are Deputy Prime Ministers, Ministers of ministries that are directly involved in the tasks of e-Government development, and also involve representatives from the private sector to promote effective synergies. public-private sector in implementing this task.

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Prepare human resources 4.0 to make the revolution a success

In the immediate period, the Prime Minister has outlined a number of key tasks that need to be focused on. That is to continue to improve and improve the quality of legal institutions, fundamental policies for building e-government, namely investment in information technology application; connect, share data; personal information protection; electronic authentication of individuals and organizations; electronic reporting system; electronic archives …

The Prime Minister said that ensuring success is a human factor, preparing human resources 4.0 is an urgent requirement both in the short term and in the long term. To make a revolution successfully, first of all, a revolutionary force must be built. Smart human resources plus creativity are the driving force for economic development in the 4th industrial revolution.

Besides that is technology development. Focus on implementing e-Government technological solutions to serve the direction and administration of the Government and the Prime Minister such as updating the E-Government Architectural Framework; review and standardize professional processes; to focus on building and perfecting national databases; building a data sharing and integration platform; building and completing the National Public Service Portal, a single centralized electronic information system in ministries and localities; building a national reporting information system; establishing a paperless Government information system and an electronic system for consultation on policies and legal documents; connection between two systems of national digital signature authentication and specialized signatures serving agencies of the political system.

Efforts should be made and diversified of resources to develop e-Government on the basis of identifying central and short-term investment priorities and investing in both financial and human resources in the short and medium term. Further promoting the role of businesses, focusing on improving the capacity of the team of experts.

Given that the culture of sharing and cooperation has not entered into many people’s minds, this is considered one of the great barriers in the rapid development of the digital government, the Prime Minister emphasized that it is necessary to improve work efficiency. communication and awareness about e-government, digital economy, digital infrastructure.

At the Forum, the Prime Minister asked the Vietnam Software and Information Technology Services Association (VINASA) to report to the Prime Minister the Forum’s specific proposals and recommendations; At the same time, VINASA was assigned to assume the prime responsibility for, together with other social organizations, to conduct independent monitoring from the private sector’s perspective to report to the Prime Minister on the implementation of the objectives and tasks of Government construction. e, promoting the digital economy to approach the industrial revolution 4.0 has been set out by the Government in resolutions, decisions and directives of the Government and the Prime Minister.

According to Duc Tuan / Chinhphu.vn