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On August 22, in Da Nang, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Veterans Association (VVA) organized a seminar on "Digital transformation in building new rural areas, towards smart new rural areas in the period of 2021-2025" for VVA members from 15 provinces and cities in the Central Highlands region.
At the seminar, Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong, Chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Association, said that digital transformation in rural agriculture is an important solution to help farmers and businesses produce quality agricultural products at low cost but with high profits, contributing to accelerating the proportion of digital agriculture in the production chain, processing, market and digital economy.
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Senior Lieutenant General Be Xuan Truong, Chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Association, spoke at the seminar. Photo: XUAN QUYNH |
According to the Economic Committee (Central Committee of the Vietnam Veterans Association), by 2025, all programs will be built synchronously and uniformly on a digital platform with at least 60% of commune-level work records processed online; at least 97% of communes will meet standard indicator 8.4 of criterion 8 on Information and Communication according to the National Criteria for New Rural Communes. At least 70% of communes will have cooperatives, 70% of districts will have production linkage models associated with the consumption of key agricultural products and 50% of linkage models associated with raw material areas will apply digital technology. Strive for each province and centrally-run city to have at least 1 pilot model of a smart new rural commune in the most prominent field.
Vietnam has great potential for digital transformation; however, to date, the rate of people using online public services is only over 50% and online processing of records is still low at around 10%. The database has not met the progress, network safety and security are still weak. Resources for applying information technology are still limited. The economy of some mountainous areas still faces many difficulties, especially in the Central Highlands.
At the seminar, delegates from 15 provinces and cities in the Central Highlands focused on exchanging and discussing the current status of digital transformation in their localities.
Referring to the rural district in Da Nang, Mr. Le Son Phong, Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Communications of Da Nang City, said that Hoa Vang district has completed 15/20 goals, of which 7 goals exceeded the digital transformation plan... In the coming time, the district needs to strive for each household (poor and near-poor households) to have a smartphone to access digital services provided by the government and businesses. In addition, it is necessary to promote digitalization, build digital data, digital platforms in new rural construction such as building digital maps of agriculture, rural areas, and farmers to share and provide open data; build digital maps of rural tourism to connect, introduce and promote local tourism products; identify OCOP products, unique handicrafts of communes and villages using BlockChain technology; put typical local products on e-commerce platforms to increase product value and expand the market.
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Representatives of the Association of War Veterans from 15 provinces and cities visited the activities of the People's Committee of Hoa Nhon commune (Hoa Vang district, Da Nang city) |
According to Mr. Pham Ngoc Thach, representative of the Lam Dong Provincial Association of War Veterans, all levels of the association need to apply diverse forms and methods of education and propaganda, focusing on combining traditional methods with the application of achievements of information technology. Fight to overcome wrong perceptions and behaviors among association officials such as thinking that the implementation of the National Target Program on new rural construction and digital transformation is only the responsibility of specialized agencies and departments...; improve the quality of activities of the Provincial Association of War Veterans' Information Page and related zalo groups to promptly reflect the association's activities, set good examples...
According to Mr. Le Phuoc Mien, representative of the Association of War Veterans of Quang Tri province, it is necessary to model some war veteran models in the Digital Transformation Program to build new rural areas for study and implementation.
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