Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Bui Hoang Phuong speaks at the event
Pursuant to Resolution No. 24/2021/QH15 dated July 28, 2021 of the 15th National Assembly and Decision No. 90/QD-TTg dated January 18, 2022 of the Prime Minister approving the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the 2021-2025 period, including the Sub-project on Information Poverty Reduction, the Ministry of Information and Communications has developed communication activities on information poverty reduction.
In particular, the project of the Essential Electronic Book and Newspaper Platform (National Book and Newspaper Platform) was launched to help people, especially the poor, easily access State policies, as well as raise awareness and skills in applying knowledge to life and production. From there, the project effectively promotes poverty reduction programs and projects and meets people's need for information access, especially in remote, isolated and extremely disadvantaged areas.
The national book and newspaper platform with the domain names sachdientu.vn and ebook.gov.vn was built and launched, marking a new step forward in realizing the goal of reducing information poverty and developing a reading culture, promoting national digital transformation.
Launching ceremony of the Essential Electronic Book and Newspaper Platform serving the goal and task of information poverty reduction, under the National Target Program (NTPP) for sustainable poverty reduction, period 2021 - 2025
Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Bui Hoang Phuong affirmed that the National Book and Newspaper Platform, including e-books and e-newspapers, is a modern, friendly and rich solution for accessing knowledge. With Vietnamese and English interfaces, the Platform is not only dedicated to the sustainable poverty reduction program, but also aims to build a diverse publishing and press ecosystem, meeting the needs of many domestic and foreign readers. In addition, the Platform also contributes to the implementation of the Reading Culture Development Strategy, with the goal of achieving 7 books/person by 2030 and the Digital Transformation Strategy of the press and publishing industry, helping the industry develop in a modern and sustainable manner.
The launch of the National Book and Newspaper Platform is also a testament to the efforts of the Ministry of Information and Communications in achieving the goal of constantly bringing knowledge closer to the people; at the same time, it also affirms the commitment of the Ministry of Information and Communications in the process of continuing to accompany ministries, branches and localities to promote digital transformation.
Overview of the ceremony
Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong acknowledged and highly appreciated the contributions of the Information and Communications Publishing House, the Department of Publishing, Printing and Distribution, and the Press Department for their efforts, positivity and responsibility in the process of building and operating the Platform.
Mr. Tran Chi Dat, Editor-in-Chief and Director of the Information and Communications Publishing House, said: The national book and newspaper platform is built on the basis of applying digital technology, with an access portal and reading application on mobile devices to read e-books and e-newspapers.
Currently, the Platform has more than 3,600 publications, including 202 e-books (including multimedia books, audiobooks and regular e-books) and 3,485 e-articles, in the forms of Infographic, Mega Story and visual (video) newspapers.
"The platform has outstanding features such as: Uploading and managing books and e-newspapers to serve readers; there are e-book creation tools that are free to use, decentralized for publishers to design and edit themselves, and press agencies to present e-newspapers according to different types of journalism. In addition, the reading tool has many advanced features to help readers have the best experiences such as bookmarking pages, highlighting text, taking notes, increasing and decreasing font size, and day/night reading mode".
Mr. Tran Chi Dat, Editor-in-Chief, Director of Information and Communications Publishing House
The national book and newspaper platform is built with an Access Portal and a reading App on mobile devices (IOS and Android operating systems, called National Books and Newspapers) to read e-books and e-newspapers.
The access portal is divided into two subsystems to post e-books and e-newspapers separately. E-books are arranged by program/project for readers to easily follow and read. E-newspapers are arranged in order of press agencies.
To protect digital copyright, the Platform has features to prevent downloading, copying of e-book content, and printing of content from e-books...
Publishers, press and television agencies participating in publishing books and newspapers under the National Target Program for Sustainable Poverty Reduction and other programs using the state budget will be decentralized and provided with administrative accounts to create e-books and e-newspapers and proactively post them on the Platform to best serve readers.
The platform is built and operated not only to serve the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the 2021-2025 period, but also to create an ecosystem, becoming a platform for publishing and distributing e-books, providing content and press information for other programs and projects chaired by the Ministry of Information and Communications.
Closing the ceremony, Deputy Minister Bui Hoang Phuong requested that publishing and press agencies and units increase the number of books and publications, diversifying types such as audiobooks and multimedia books; press agencies promote publications with all types of journalism to serve the needs of the people.
Putting the e-book and e-newspaper platform into operation and exploitation will contribute to promoting digital transformation in the field of journalism and publishing, and is an essential information channel for people to access, read and experience e-books and e-newspapers.
In particular, the Platform will become an archive of books and electronic newspapers serving the state management of press and publishing in particular and the information and propaganda activities of the Party and State in general./.
Source: https://mic.gov.vn/ra-mat-nen-tang-sach-bao-dien-tu-thiet-yeu-phuc-vu-muc-tieu-nhiem-vu-giam-ngheo-ve-thong-tin-197241129165328859.htm
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