On the afternoon of May 30, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung chaired the May State Management Conference between agencies and units within the Ministry.

Minister Nguyen Manh Hung chaired the May state management conference of the Ministry of Information and Communications. (Photo: Le Anh Dung)

Most of the time of this Conference was led by the head of the Information and Communications sector to discuss how the heads of agencies and units in the Ministry will choose a goal for themselves in the next 3 years.

Suggesting that each unit and each field think about and take on a specific task, creating value to contribute to the development of the industry and the country, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung stated that this is also an opportunity for unit leaders to make their mark in their journey of operation, "doing something to help the industry, the country, life and themselves".

Deputy Director in charge of the ICT Industry Department Nguyen Thien Nghia. (Photo: Le Anh Dung)

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Nguyen Thien Nghia, Deputy Director in charge of the Department of Information Technology and Communications (ICT), set himself a goal of how to participate in promoting the production of about 500,000 more IT engineers and bachelors each year in the next 3 years, contributing to the development of high-quality IT human resources in Vietnam.

Regarding the Department of External Information, Director Pham Anh Tuan shared his desire to create a platform serving more than 100 million Vietnamese people to promote the image of Vietnam to 8 billion people in the world. This system will be a place to gather communications of the political system, localities, the press, businesses and people, first of all the Vietnamese people and then the people of the world, to bring the image of Vietnam to the world. According to Mr. Pham Anh Tuan, if the media communicates the prosperity of Vietnam on cyberspace, the position of the Department of External Information will also be raised.

Director of the Department of External Information Pham Anh Tuan shared his desire to create a platform to serve more than 100 million Vietnamese people to promote the country's image to the world. (Photo: Le Anh Dung)

After listening to the opinions expressed by the heads of the units under the Ministry of Information and Communications , Minister Nguyen Manh Hung suggested a number of important and meaningful tasks that units and fields can choose to do. For example, if the National Digital Transformation Agency can do the job of having a virtual assistant for each civil servant, it will help change Vietnam. The Information Security Agency can focus on monitoring the safety of hardware systems as well as information content, or set a goal that every smartphone of Vietnamese people has a security lock.

Similarly, with the Press Department, the Minister suggested considering promoting the formation of State press corporations with great influence and bringing the activities of press agencies to digital platforms. Or with the ICT Industry Department, in addition to developing human resources, the head of the Information and Communications sector suggested setting a specific figure for the total revenue target of Vietnamese digital technology enterprises from foreign markets by 2025.

According to Minister Nguyen Manh Hung, assigning the task of making an impression to unit leaders is a good approach to make them use technology to optimize their work. (Photo: Le Anh Dung)

In particular, in the conclusion of the Conference, the head of the Information and Communications industry mentioned the spirit of innovation, the decision to go to the most modern places, learn and dare to commit, and take risks to choose to go straight into modern technology of "Uncle Ba Than" in the innovation period of the Vietnamese telecommunications industry.

At that time, analog technology accounted for 98% of the world market share while digital technology only accounted for 2%. However, former Director General of the General Department of Posts Dang Van Than and the General Department's leadership team made a bold and courageous decision to abandon analog switchboards, choose digital technology, and go straight to modernization. This decision created a revolution in the Postal industry.

Affirming that Vietnam cannot develop without entering the 2% zone, the head of the Information and Communications sector suggested to the heads of units : "Go back to the time of Uncle Ba Than, do what was done then." "This industry and this field can achieve what they have today because nearly 40 years ago we entered the 2% zone," Minister Nguyen Manh Hung commented.

Former Director General of the General Department of Posts Dang Van Than, Hero of Labor in the renovation period, who made important contributions, making the Postal sector a pioneer in the country's renovation, passed away on May 24, 2023, in Ho Chi Minh City at the age of 92.

Telecom innovation

The first telecommunications innovation was more than 35 years ago. It was the conversion of telecommunications equipment and infrastructure from the old, outdated analog generation to the digital generation. The first innovation built a modern Vietnamese telecommunications infrastructure, solving the problem of information and communication for the entire population. The soul and leading nucleus of the first innovation was General Director Dang Van Than - Former member of the Party Central Committee, former National Assembly Delegate, Hero of Labor in the innovation period. People in the industry affectionately call him Mr. Ba Than, Uncle Ba Than.

The second telecommunications innovation is to transform telecommunications infrastructure into digital infrastructure - the infrastructure of the digital economy. This second innovation can be considered the largest-scale transformation, changing the nature of the telecommunications industry, opening up a huge new space for the telecommunications industry, much larger than the information and communication space. The significance of the telecommunications industry for the country's socio-economic development is therefore much greater. The opportunities are also much greater. The market is also much larger. The responsibility is also much greater. The telecommunications industry takes on a new mission: Building a modern digital infrastructure, including telecommunications infrastructure and data infrastructure, super-large capacity, super-wide bandwidth, universal, sustainable, green, open, smart and secure.

The lessons of the first innovation of the generation of General Director Dang Van Than will still be valuable for this second time, that is: Infrastructure must go first and go fast, go straight to modern technology, be in the top group of the world, master technology, make wise and far-sighted decisions, mobilize all resources, manage decisively and through this challenge, form a generation of good cadres for the industry and for the country.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung

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