VietNamNet Newspaper introduces the full text of the speech of Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung on National Digital Transformation Day 2024.
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Minister Nguyen Manh Hung: Digital transformation has become the focus of the Party and State's activities, and therefore, there needs to be a strategic breakthrough for digital transformation so that digital transformation can make an important contribution to completing the two centenary goals.

Digital transformation (DX), simply put, includes digitization and transformation. Digitization is comprehensive digitization, which is transferring all activities to the digital environment, converting the entire real world into a digital copy, thereby forming a new living space - digital space, and generating new resources, huge and countless data. Transformation is a total and comprehensive change in the way of operating and operating in the digital space through the use of digital technology (CNS), especially artificial intelligence (AI), and processing data to generate new values. DX is therefore larger than the connotation of an industrial revolution.

Digital transformation is mainly transformation, transformation is 70, technology is 30. Digital transformation is an institutional revolution, more about change than a technological revolution.

National Digital Transformation Day was announced in 2022 and this year is the 3rd year. This day is a digital transformation festival for the people, for all levels of government. National Digital Transformation Day to raise awareness and action of the government and people. So that Vietnamese digital transformation can truly become universal and comprehensive.

This year is the year we will evaluate the results of digital transformation at the final level. Digital transformation is centered on people, so we must see how they benefit from digital transformation.

The Community Digital Technology Team took the idea from the Community COVID Team. Going to every alley, knocking on every door, guiding each subject. This is a creative and effective model, only available in Vietnam. Established since 2022, to date there have been 93,500 Community CNS Teams with 458,000 members. This is a powerful force for Vietnam's digital transformation to truly be a national revolution.

The community digital technology team is a powerful force to transform Vietnam's digital economy into a truly national revolution. Minister Nguyen Manh Hung

In 2024, the Prime Minister directed to summarize successful models of digital transformation at the ministerial level, of public services, of smart operation centers, in order to replicate and popularize them nationwide. Only when they are popularized can we reap the success of digital transformation. And the time has come. If we previously focused on piloting, now we will shift our focus to popularizing what has been successfully piloted.

Vietnam's digital transformation has entered its 5th year. With the speech on digital transformation by General Secretary and President To Lam on the country's founding day, September 2, 2024, Vietnam's digital transformation has truly become the revolutionary cause of the entire Party and people. Only when digital transformation becomes the cause and daily work of the entire Party and people, will the value that digital transformation brings to the country truly be enormous. Only then will digital transformation be the main driving force for development.

The past 4 years can be considered as a start, a pilot, an initial success in a number of areas, and the formation of the theory and method of digital transformation in Vietnam. And in this 5th year, it has truly become a revolutionary cause of the Party, the State and the People. Digital transformation has become the focus of the activities of the Party and the State, and therefore, there needs to be a strategic breakthrough for digital transformation so that digital transformation can make an important contribution to the completion of the 2 centenary goals. That is a breakthrough in digital institutions, digital infrastructure, digital data and digital cadres. Digital cadres are first and foremost leaders, who must directly direct, directly implement and be proficient in using them. The digital transformation results of units are the criteria for evaluating cadres and leaders.

The first digital cadre is the leader, who must directly direct, directly do and be proficient in using it. Minister Nguyen Manh Hung

This year is the third consecutive year that the Prime Minister has directly attended and directed the National Digital Transformation Day. Vietnam's digital transformation has made strong progress since the issuance of the National Digital Transformation Program in 2020 and especially since the establishment of the National Digital Transformation Committee chaired by the Prime Minister in 2021.

This year, the Government had a direct dialogue with those working in the digital transformation field at the end of the line, which are members of the community digital technology group. The Prime Minister gave a speech on digital transformation in the new era, the era of the Vietnamese people's rise.