On the morning of July 19, at the Government Headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation chaired the Conference of the Government Standing Committee on Digital Transformation with Ministers, Heads of Sectors, Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities. Also attending were Deputy Prime Ministers Le Minh Khai, Tran Hong Ha and Le Thanh Long; representatives of leaders of ministries, sectors and central agencies. The conference was broadcast live to the headquarters of the People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities.
Speaking at the opening of the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that the 13th National Party Congress identified science, technology and innovation as a major driving force for the country's socio-economic development in this term and the next; identified science, technology and innovation as one of the breakthroughs in development.
For our country, we prioritize growth, so we must renew old growth drivers including consumption, investment and export; in addition, we promote new growth drivers including digital economy, green economy, circular economy, sharing economy, knowledge economy. We also realize that high-quality production forces are science, technology, and innovation. Whoever grasps this field will go faster, make more breakthroughs, and be more effective. We define the ideology in science, technology and innovation as "catching up, progressing together, and surpassing". Digital Transformation is an inevitable trend, mandatory requirement, irreversible process on the international, national, and local levels.
Looking back at the progress in the transformation process in our country over the past time, we can draw lessons, including a major lesson that for digital transformation to be strong, fast and effective, the special and decisive role of leaders at all levels, sectors and localities is required. Therefore, this meeting is very necessary and meaningful to raise awareness, determine the goals and perspectives of digital transformation development, especially tasks and solutions that are close to reality, "correct, on target", feasible, especially the organization of implementation to ensure efficiency, save the most time, save the most cost, but bring the highest efficiency.
This conference is very important for the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries, branches and localities to discuss, clarify and unify thinking, methodology and approach to act together, further promote the national digital transformation process, develop digital government, digital economy and digital society.
The Prime Minister shared some thoughts: from the beginning of his term until now, we have had to face the Covid-19 pandemic, then strategic competition, conflicts, wars, supply chain disruptions, production chains, and logistics difficulties; monetary policies of major countries have changed a lot, causing difficulties for Vietnam in terms of interest rates and exchange rates.
We see that, during the pandemic and after the pandemic, online conferences are well organized, effective, meeting regardless of time, with no limit on the number of participants. This is a great effort, has great effects, and saves costs. Through online conferences, local leaders are conveyed the fastest, earliest, most specific, and clearest information from the commander to the implementers. Then the database issue is focused on.
Next, we have developed Project 06 chaired by the Ministry of Public Security with the spirit of building a database that is “correct, sufficient, clean, and alive”, which is a good policy and brings practical results; we continue to attach importance to digital transformation, establishing a National Steering Committee on digital transformation with the participation of relevant ministries and branches. In fact, we have been and are effectively implementing digital transformation.
Last year, we set out the Year of Database Building; this year, we set the goal of connecting and enhancing the exploitation of databases, focusing on building a national database. Ministers, heads of sectors, and chairmen of provincial and municipal People's Committees quickly and accurately grasp the work they are directing and how it is being carried out. If it is slow, which stage is slow? Who is handling it and how is it being handled? This is a widespread benefit that digital transformation brings. Many ministries and sectors have built smart command centers.
The Prime Minister stated that our Party has deeply mentioned digital transformation, digital economy, and digital society in its development goals and perspectives and has a strategic breakthrough. The Politburo has issued Resolution 52-NQ/TW on a number of guidelines and policies to proactively participate in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, emphasizing the urgent need to accelerate the digital transformation process.
The important task now is to promote economic growth, stabilize the macro economy, ensure major balances of the economy, restructure the economy, promote growth drivers to complete the major goals set for this term. These issues are closely related to digital transformation. The Prime Minister emphasized the spirit of comprehensive, all-people, all-round digital transformation with the active participation and companionship of the entire political system, people, businesses, and the help of international friends.
In recent times, the Government, the Prime Minister, ministries and branches such as the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Ministry of Finance, the State Bank of Vietnam, etc. are important ministries that have been very active in digital transformation, focusing on building and perfecting institutions, mechanisms, policies, promoting the development of digital government, digital society, digital citizens; developing digital infrastructure; training, fostering, and improving the quality of human resources. Experts and large foreign technology corporations have all recommended that Vietnam should focus on developing digital transformation, cloud computing, databases, etc.
The Prime Minister stated that digital transformation has “gone to every alley, knocked on every door, and reached every person”. The digital economy is permeating all production, business, and consumption activities, fundamentally changing the economic, cultural, and social life of the country. We need to thoroughly grasp this spirit to continue to effectively implement digital transformation because we have done a lot but there is still much to do. This conference needs to discuss, unify perceptions, share experiences, good models, good practices, unify thoughts, actions, and visions to be determined to invest, “catch up, move forward, and overcome” in this volatile world, especially the digital economy.
In that spirit, the Prime Minister suggested that the conference frankly, clearly and objectively assess what has been done and what has not been done, clearly point out where the problems are, and what lessons have been learned in the recent past in ministries, branches and localities? Good experiences, valuable lessons, innovative models in digital transformation that bring real efficiency such as investment in infrastructure development, provision of online public services, database development, information sharing connection, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing... Frankly point out the work to be done in the near future that needs to focus on rural areas to save the most time, invest the most modestly but bring the highest efficiency, suitable for the current conditions and circumstances of our country. How do we assess the world in the future to have appropriate and effective solutions, bringing practical benefits to the people, the country, and the development of digital transformation.
* According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, in terms of the results of Vietnam's 4-year digital transformation, according to the assessment of international organizations, Vietnam ranked 86/193; online public services ranked 76/193 (up 5 places). However, Vietnam's e-Government ranked 6/11 in ASEAN (after Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei and Indonesia); Vietnam's online public services ranked 5/11 in ASEAN (after Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia). Vietnam's digital economic growth rate has increased gradually over the years: in 2020, Vietnam ranked only 6th in the ASEAN region in terms of digital economic growth rate, then in 2021 it ranked 3rd and in the following 2 years 2022, 2023 it ranked 1st. In terms of global cybersecurity and safety rankings: Vietnam ranked 25th/194 ranked countries and territories.
According to Vietnam's assessment, in terms of institutions: from 2020 to now, we have built and issued 3 Laws, 2 Resolutions and 19 Decrees directly affecting and regulating digital transformation activities, promoting digital transformation. The Prime Minister issued 21 Decisions and Directives. Regarding the general assessment of national digital transformation indexes: The national digital transformation index DTI has increased steadily over the years, reaching 0.71 points by 2022; component indexes on digital government, digital economy and digital society still maintain a high growth rate of 45-55%.
Regarding administrative procedure settlement and online public service provision for people and businesses: in 2019, it only reached nearly 11%; from 2020 to now, there has been a breakthrough growth, reaching 55% to date, 5 times higher than the entire period before 2020; the rate of online records in 2019 was only about 5%, at present, this rate has reached 43% (an increase of more than 8 times).
Regarding platforms and systems serving management and operation: Accordingly, the platform for processing work records in state agencies: in 2020, work records at the ministerial level were processed on the network environment at 65.8%, up to now, this rate has reached 89.35%. Regarding data connection and sharing: in 2020, the total number of connection and data sharing transactions was 11.5 million, and in the first 6 months of 2024, it was 533 million transactions via the national data integration and sharing platform.
Regarding digital economic development: Google's report assessed that Vietnam's digital economic growth rate is the fastest in Southeast Asia for two consecutive years (28% in 2022 and 19% in 2023), 3.5 times higher than the GDP growth rate. The Ministry of Information and Communications estimates that the proportion of the digital economy in Vietnam's GDP will reach 16.5% in 2023 and 18.5% by June 2024. Regarding the digital economy in each industry: online tourism increased by 82%, digital payments increased by 19%, making Vietnam the fastest growing country in digital payments in Southeast Asia; e-commerce has a growth rate of about 25% per year in the period from 2019 to 2023, especially in the first 6 months of 2024, e-commerce increased by 80% over the same period in 2023; Digital technology industry: the number of operating information technology enterprises is estimated at about 45,500, of which more than 1,500 digital technology enterprises have revenue from foreign markets with total revenue from foreign markets estimated at 7.5 billion USD.
Regarding digital society development: the proportion of adults with digital or electronic signatures will increase from 3% in 2022 to 13.5% in June 2024; the proportion of the population aged 15 and over with payment transaction accounts at banks or other licensed organizations will increase from 67% in 2020 to 87.08% in 2023. Regarding digital citizen development, by December 2023, the Ministry of Public Security has issued over 84.7 million chip-based citizen identification cards; activated 45.4 million identification accounts. 34 localities have completed the issuance of electronic identification accounts. The VNeID application is increasingly being improved, integrating additional utilities to serve people such as: electronic health numbers; driver's licenses; e-wallets, declaration, registration, tax payment; social insurance number information and many other utilities...
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