Digital transformation has come to 'every alley, every house, every person'

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial Steering Committee for Digital Transformation, Deputy Head of the Provincial Working Group for Project 06 implementation - Pham Tan Hoa chaired at Long An bridge point

The conference was held in a combination of in-person and online formats nationwide. At the Long An bridge, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial Digital Transformation Steering Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial Working Group for Project 06 implementation - Pham Tan Hoa chaired.

In recent times, the Government and the Prime Minister have resolutely directed and synchronously deployed solutions to increasingly effectively and practically implement the national digital transformation; promote digital transformation in most areas; focus on building and perfecting institutions, mechanisms and policies to promote the development of digital government, digital economy, digital society and digital citizens. At the same time, Project 06 has been vigorously implemented from the central to grassroots levels, which has been approved, supported and highly appreciated by people and businesses; contributing to changing management methods and improving the quality and efficiency of citizen management; saving time and effort; creating an important foundation for deploying online public services.

At the conference, delegates listened to the leaders of the Ministry of Information and Communications report on the results of national digital transformation in the first 6 months of 2024 by the National Committee on Digital Transformation; the leaders of the Ministry of Public Security reported on the preliminary summary of the first 6 months of 2024 implementing Project 06.

Accordingly, national digital transformation in the first 6 months of the year has achieved many outstanding results: Online public services, the rate of online records (out of the total number of administrative procedure records) nationwide reached 42% (17% by the end of 2023); ministries and branches reached 61% (38% by the end of 2023); localities reached 17% (9% by the end of 2023).

63/63 localities (an increase of 14 localities compared to the end of 2023) have issued policies to reduce, exempt, and charge fees for using online public services; 15/63 localities (an increase of 2 localities compared to the end of 2023) have issued policies to reduce time to encourage people to use online public services.

The digital economy in the first 6 months of the year is estimated to grow by 22.4% and the proportion of the digital economy in GDP is estimated at 18.3%. Revenue from the information technology sector (digital economy ICT) is estimated at 1,928,311 billion VND, up 26% over the same period in 2023;...

Delegates discuss at the conference

Also at the conference, leaders of ministries, branches and localities discussed, analyzed and objectively assessed the existing problems, limitations, weaknesses, obstacles, barriers and bottlenecks, especially in terms of institutions, mechanisms and policies; pointed out the contents that are still behind schedule, identified the causes and drew lessons. At the same time, leaders of ministries, branches and localities also shared good experiences, valuable lessons, creative ways of leading, directing, organizing and implementing and clearly identified key tasks and breakthrough solutions in the coming time.

Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister and Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation - Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that digital transformation has become an inevitable trend, an objective requirement and a strategic choice for many countries. In Vietnam, digital transformation has reached "every alley, every house, every person".

Currently, important tasks such as promoting growth, restructuring the economy, promoting old growth drivers, exploring new growth drivers, emerging industries, etc. are all closely related to digital transformation. In particular, Project 06 is identified as a key, important task and one of the "bright spots" and "good models" of national digital transformation.

However, to complete the goals of the National Digital Transformation Program and Project 06, there is still a lot of work to do; there are still some tasks that have been proposed but are behind schedule; there are tasks that are difficult to complete without strong, persistent, consistent, and synchronous direction from the Central to the grassroots levels.

To continue effectively implementing the national digital transformation task and implementing Project 06, in the coming time, the Prime Minister requested that ministries, branches and localities focus on promoting the development of the digital economy to boost economic growth, contributing to the successful implementation of socio-economic development goals; promote the construction, connection, integration and sharing of digital platforms and databases; ensure security and safety in the network environment; improve the efficiency of people's use of online public services; promote the reduction of administrative procedures;.../.

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