An overview of the conference (Photo: VNA)Bac Ninh (VNA) – The northern province of Bac Ninh is resolved to promotedigital transformation so as to create breakthrough advancements inadministrative reform, heard a recent conference of the province.
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Anh Tuan said in his openingremarks at the September 6 event that Bac Ninh has quickly responded to the Government’s policy ondigital transformation, with the provincial Party Committee adopting Resolution 52-NQ/TU on March 18, 2022 issuing theprovince’s digital transformation programme to 2025 with orientation to 2030.
He took note of positive results achieved so far in digitaltransformation, which contributed positively to administrative reform,improvement of the local business and investment environment, earning approvalfrom the business community and the people. Bac Ninh has put in place aninformation technology infrastructure, rolled out an digital government andapplied a software for businesses and people to send their opinions toauthorities.
Stressing that digital transformation is an inevitable trend in development,the provincial Party Secretary said digital transformation should start withdigital citizens, so it is necessary to develop a generation of digitalcitizens for sustainable transformation.
He required that digital transformation should be promoted in all fields andfrom provincial down to communal levels. He assigned the provincial Departmentof Information and Communication, which is the standing agency for theprovincial steering committee for digital transformation, to advise the steeringcommittee in rolling out key tasks every month, quarter and year.
The secretary also asked the department to build a digital transformation indexto assess the performance of local departments, agencies and localities.
Presenting a thematic report on digital transformation in BacNinh, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Nguyen Huy Dung said theprovince ranked fourth in the national digital transformation index in 2021, with a value of 0.5276, down one place but up 0.118 interms of value compared to 2020.
For the main indicators,Bac Ninh ranked 16th in digital awareness with a value of 0.8; ranked fourth interms of digital institutions with a value of 0.75; seventh in terms of digitalinfrastructure with a value of 0.6068; 34th in digital human resources with avalue of 0.1976; fifth in network information security with a value of 0.5335; ninthin digital government activities with a value of 0.6167; 21st in digitaleconomic activities with a value of 0.3972 and 10th in digital socialactivities with a value of 0.3725.
The province has performed well regarding public awareness about digitaltransformation, and has joined the national communication channel on digitaltransformation on Zalo platform.
The deputy minister suggested several solutions to help Bac Ninhbuild a digital government, digital economy and digital society, which are thethree pillars of digital transformation. He also gave out advice and warningson issues that the province should pay attention to in the field in the timeahead.
Standing Deputy Chairman of the provincial People’s CommitteeVuong Quoc Tuan highlighted the key contents of Resolution 52-NQ/TU and a plan of actions to carry out the resolution.
A representative from the Ministry of Information andCommunication delivered a report on information safety and measures to help BacNinh ensure cyber security.
The conference is expected to give officials ofdepartments, sectors and localities in Bac Ninh a multi-sided view and deeperawareness about the importance of digital transformation.
As of August 30 this year, a total 3,334,900 documents had been processed online in Bac Ninh, accountingfor more than 90% of the total documents processed by the provincial Stateadministrative system.
Digital transformation has made initial contribution to the province’sdevelopment, creating remarkable changes in administrative reform, bringingabout improvements in the investment and business environment and enhancing thesatisfaction of people and the business community. It has also helped raise BacNinh’s ranking in the Provincial Governance and Public AdministrationPerformance Index (PAPI)./.
