Launching ceremony of the movement and platform "Digital Popular Education"

On the afternoon of March 26, at Hanoi University of Science and Technology, the Central Steering Committee for Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation held a ceremony to launch the movement and launch the "Digital Popular Education" platform.

The launching ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Central Propaganda and Education Commission Nguyen Trong Nghia, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics Nguyen Xuan Thang, Minister of Public Security Luong Tam Quang, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Duc Hai, Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son, and representatives of leaders of central ministries, departments and branches.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and other leaders and delegates performed the ceremony to launch the movement and launch the "Digital Popular Education" platform.

Previously, on November 18, 2024, General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Central Steering Committee on Science, Technology, Innovation and Digital Transformation, requested to launch and implement the "Digital Education for All" movement.

At the ceremony, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and other leaders and delegates launched the movement and launched the "Digital Popular Education" platform at https://binhdanhocvuso.gov.vn/. Representatives of the Central Youth Union, localities and universities spoke in response to the movement.

According to the leader of the Ministry of Public Security, as the standing agency of Project 06, the Ministry of Public Security has presided over and closely coordinated with Hanoi University of Science and Technology, along with ministries, branches and localities to organize the construction, completion and operation of the "Digital Popular Education" platform - a national training platform managed and operated by the Ministry of Public Security and Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

In the coming time, the Ministry of Public Security will coordinate with the Ministry of Science and Technology to issue technical standards for connecting with other digital platforms to effectively serve the national digital transformation. With its superior features, the "Digital Popular Education" platform is ready to be put into operation nationwide from April 1, 2025.

Speaking at the event, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh stated that this is an important task to concretize the Party's guidelines and policies in Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW dated December 22, 2024 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation and digital transformation; responding to and implementing the direction of General Secretary To Lam on lifelong learning and implementing the "Digital Education for All" movement.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the event

The Prime Minister commended and highly appreciated the efforts and effective coordination of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission, the Central Party Office, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education and Training and relevant units who have actively prepared well for the implementation of this movement, as well as the information and propaganda work so that the movement can be deployed widely and evenly right after the Launching Ceremony with the spirit of taking people as the center, the subject and leaving no one behind.

"If we perceive science, technology, innovation and digital transformation as objective requirements, strategic choices and top priorities in the current revolutionary period, we cannot fail to mention digital society, digital nation and comprehensive digital citizenship; from there, we cannot fail to have the movement of "Digital Literacy for All", the Prime Minister emphasized.

According to the Prime Minister, the "Digital Literacy for All" movement has important and profound humane significance for the country's development, demonstrating the determination of the Party and State in the cause of developing a digital nation, digital government, digital economy, digital society, digital citizens, and developing rapidly, comprehensively and sustainably.

The Prime Minister recalled that 80 years ago, when the country had just gained independence, more than 95% of the population could not read or write, "ignorance" became one of the three dangerous enemies (along with "famine" and "foreign invaders"), the "Popular Education" movement was born with the urgent goal of eliminating illiteracy and improving the cultural level of the people. President Ho Chi Minh once said: "An ignorant nation is a weak nation"; therefore, improving the people's knowledge is a solid foundation for building an independent, strong and prosperous nation. And in just a short time, millions of Vietnamese people knew how to read and write, making an important contribution to the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.

According to the Prime Minister, the "Digital Popularization" movement was inspired and inherited, promoted from the "Digital Popularization" movement launched by President Ho Chi Minh, as General Secretary To Lam said about the "Digital Popularization" movement with an open spirit: "This is not only an educational initiative, the "Digital Popularization" movement is also a bridge between the past and the future. By promoting historical lessons, striving to build a society that is not only rich in knowledge but also rich in technological strength, ready to integrate and develop" and emphasized: "Knowledge is the key, technology is the door to open a brighter future. To spread the "Digital Popularization" movement, not only policies and support from the Government and social organizations are needed, but above all, people are the main subjects, need to proactively learn, be ready to share, apply digital knowledge, and together build a progressive society in the new era".

Event delegates

"The country is facing a historic opportunity to enter a new era of strong development with the main driving force coming from science, technology, innovation and digital transformation. We must carry out a particularly important and urgent task, which is to popularize knowledge, technology on digital transformation, digital skills for all people, that is, to "eliminate illiteracy" about digital transformation," the Prime Minister stated.

Deploying 3 platforms to implement the "Digital Education for All" movement, including: One Touch mass open online learning platform and MobiEdu mass open online learning platform (having trained more than 1.2 million cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers; providing free digital skills to more than 40 million people); and the "Digital Education for All" platform has so far trained 200,000 cadres, civil servants and armed forces.

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, the Prime Minister acknowledged, highly appreciated and commended the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission, the Central Party Office, the Ministries of Public Security, Science and Technology, Education and Training, enterprises and universities for proactively and actively implementing effectively the tasks and solutions set out, contributing to the extremely important initial achievements. This is the premise and basis for successfully implementing the movement's goals.

The Prime Minister also noted that in the process of implementing the movement, according to their authority, ministries, branches and localities must proactively propose and promptly reward good examples and advanced models. At the same time, they must point out addresses, collectives and individuals who have not completed or paid due attention to this movement to review and handle responsibilities according to regulations of the Party and State.

Regarding viewpoints and guiding ideology, the Prime Minister stated that the "Popular Education Digital" movement is closely linked in name, core values ​​and lessons learned from the previous "Popular Education" movement - one of the most successful movements in the history of the Vietnamese Revolution.

Event scene

Therefore, the "Digital Literacy for All" movement must become a revolutionary, all-people, comprehensive, encompassing, far-reaching movement, leaving no one behind. The Party has directed, the Government has agreed, the National Assembly has agreed, the people have supported, the Fatherland has expected, so we only discuss doing, not retreating. If the movement wants to "live long", it must bring practical results, must harmonize individual interests and common interests, between individual interests and collective interests, the interests of the Fatherland and the country.

This movement must be an important political task, a command of the heart, a smart thinking of the mind, a decisive action of each citizen; must arouse and spread the revolutionary spirit, the tradition of great solidarity, the spirit of self-reliance, self-confidence, self-reliance, self-strengthening and national pride; must definitely be completed according to the set schedule; compete to achieve achievements towards celebrating major holidays in 2025 and welcoming Party Congresses at all levels, towards the 14th National Party Congress.

Each party member, cadre and civil servant must be a pioneer and exemplary in implementing the movement, creating a strong change in awareness and action; transforming the process of learning, training and applying digital knowledge and skills into the personal needs of each person; promoting the reduction of training and coaching costs; aiming for complete free provision for the disadvantaged, remote areas, border areas and islands. The spirit is "going to every alley, to every house, guiding every person" and with the motto "Fast deployment - Wide connection - Smart application".

The Prime Minister proposed focusing on implementing "One goal, two promotion, three guarantees, four key tasks" in implementing the movement.

One goal is to universalize basic digital knowledge and skills for all people in a revolutionary, all-people, comprehensive, inclusive, far-reaching spirit, leaving no one behind.

Two promotion include: Promoting and mobilizing comprehensively and effectively the resources of the state, society, enterprises and the entire people; promoting the cultural tradition, love of learning, spirit of lifelong learning, and aspiration to rise up of the Vietnamese people.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and delegates listen to an introduction to the "Digital Popular Education" platform.

The three guarantees are: Ensuring open and appropriate mechanisms and policies to implement the movement practically and effectively; ensuring smooth infrastructure, synchronization, connectivity, flexibility, no formality, embellishment and targeting the right subjects; ensuring effective use of resources, enhancing transparency, fighting negativity, corruption and waste.

Four key tasks include: The task of building a digital learning ecosystem (developing a digital learning platform for the entire population, applying artificial intelligence and big data); the task of building a mechanism to encourage and motivate learning (introducing digital skills into the labor assessment system, recruiting, giving incentives to vulnerable groups, encouraging businesses to participate); the task of building and improving the capacity of digital lecturers (developing a team of lecturers, digital volunteers, mobilizing union members and association members to participate); the task of building an effective inspection, monitoring and evaluation mechanism (building an evaluation mechanism; promoting information and propaganda; conducting independent monitoring from social organizations, the press and the community to ensure transparency).

To successfully implement the "Digital Literacy for All" movement with the above determination, expectations, viewpoints and goals, the Prime Minister requested that Party committees and authorities at all levels, especially leaders, need to take the lead in improving digital capacity, promoting digital transformation at localities and agencies, considering this a key task, linked with administrative reform and socio-economic development; creating conditions for people to access digital skills, services, digital platforms, taking people and businesses as the center and driving force of digital transformation.

The Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, business community and people need to actively respond to the movement. Technology enterprises play a pioneering role, popularizing digital skills through appropriate platforms, services and solutions; accompanying the government and people in the digital transformation process.

At the same time, accelerate the implementation of the Project to improve digital skills, integrate digital knowledge and artificial intelligence into general education. Invest in digital infrastructure, especially in remote areas and support digital devices for the disadvantaged. Promote community digital technology groups, along with digital family, digital rural and digital urban models to spread digital skills widely.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, delegates and students attend the launching ceremony of the "Digital Education for All" movement

The Prime Minister assigned the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education and Training to coordinate in developing a digital competency framework and appropriate documents for each subject. Officials, civil servants, public employees, and workers need to be updated and improve their digital skills and use digital platforms effectively. Students are equipped with digital knowledge to serve their studies and protect themselves. Workers know how to use smart devices to increase productivity. People know how to use essential digital services and safe online public services.

The Prime Minister requested the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission to preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Education and Training to regularly monitor and urge the implementation of the movement, promptly report to the Central Steering Committee on the implementation results; and guide press agencies to promote information and propaganda about the movement.

The Prime Minister also directed that the movement needs to be closely and organically linked with the movements being implemented, especially the movement "The whole country competes to build a learning society, promoting lifelong learning in the period of 2023-2030". Promoting the role of the massive open online course (MOOC) platform to meet the needs of a large number of people participating in learning and updating on digital transformation and digital skills.

The Prime Minister called on the entire Party, the entire people, the entire army, Party committees, Party organizations, authorities, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, social organizations, professional societies, enterprises, businessmen, educational institutions, scientists, organizations, communities, and everyone to join hands and actively respond to this movement of special importance.

"With high political determination, a spirit of solidarity, creativity and a strong desire for national development, the "Digital Literacy for All" movement will spread widely, creating motivation and inspiration for everyone, bringing benefits to all people and to the nation, all for the goal of building a rich, civilized, prosperous country, with people increasingly prosperous and happy," the Prime Minister believes.

Source: https://moet.gov.vn/tintuc/Pages/tin-tong-hop.aspx?ItemID=10406