Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs the 9th meeting of the National Committee on Digital Transformation

On the afternoon of July 10, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation, chaired the 9th meeting of the Committee and the Working Group implementing Project 06 of the Government to review activities in the first 6 months of 2024, deploy tasks for the last 6 months of the year and in the coming time.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs the 6-month review conference of the National Committee on Digital Transformation and Project 06. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA

The conference was held in a combination of direct and online formats at the Government Headquarters and with the ministries, branches and 63 provinces and centrally-run cities. Attending the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Committee; Ministers, Heads of ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies; leaders of ministries and branches who are members of the Committee; leaders of localities, corporations and large enterprises in information technology. Opening the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that digital transformation has become an inevitable trend, an objective requirement and a strategic choice of many countries. In Vietnam, digital transformation has reached "every alley, every house, every person". The important tasks currently being carried out are promoting growth, restructuring the economy, promoting old growth drivers, exploring new growth drivers, emerging industries... all of which are closely related to digital transformation. According to the Prime Minister, Project 06 is identified as a key and important task and one of the "bright spots" and "good models" of national digital transformation. In recent times, the Government and the Prime Minister have resolutely directed and synchronously deployed solutions to increasingly effectively and practically implement the national digital transformation; promote digital transformation in most areas; focus on building and perfecting institutions, policies and mechanisms to promote the development of digital government, digital economy, digital society, and digital citizens. Along with that, people and businesses agree with, support, and highly appreciate the resolute implementation of Project 06 from the central to grassroots levels; contributing to changing management methods and improving the quality and efficiency of citizen management; saving time and effort; creating an important foundation for deploying online public services. The Prime Minister said that in order to complete the goals of the National Digital Transformation Program and Project 06, there is still a lot of work to do. There are still some tasks that have been proposed but are behind schedule; there are tasks that we see as "at risk" of being difficult to complete without strong, persistent, consistent, and synchronous direction from the Central to the grassroots levels. The Prime Minister asked delegates to discuss, analyze, evaluate, frankly, clearly, objectively, and demonstrate with specific data the implementation of the 2024 Action Plan and the results achieved in the first 6 months of the year. At the same time, it is necessary to identify existing problems, limitations, weaknesses, obstacles, barriers, and bottlenecks, especially in terms of institutions, mechanisms, and policies; clearly point out the contents that are behind schedule; determine the causes, draw lessons; share good experiences, valuable lessons, and creative ways of leading, directing, and organizing implementation in digital infrastructure development; provide online public services; develop national databases, connect and share information, and form big data; train and develop human resources; good models and practices of some ministries, branches and localities...

In particular, the Prime Minister requested the conference to clearly identify key tasks and breakthrough solutions for the last months of the year and the coming time. In particular, focusing on solutions to promote digital economic development to boost economic growth, contributing to the successful implementation of socio-economic development goals in general; promoting the construction, connection, integration, and sharing of digital platforms and databases; ensuring security and safety in the network environment; increasing the efficiency of people's use of online public services; promoting the reduction of administrative procedures and compliance costs...

Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Duc Long reports on the first 6 months of 2024 on national digital transformation. Photo: Duong Giang/VNA