Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam needs to foster rapid and sustainable digitaltransformation but at the same time must ensure cyber security and safety,Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung has emphasised.
Digital transformation and cyber security andsafety are two aspects of a development trend, he told a teleconference with localities onMay 14 aimed at bolstering their capacity in managing and implement digitaltransformation and information safety.
The Government issued the National DigitalTransformation Programme in 2020, he said, and 2021 is a year of action toaccelerate the process in all fields.
Digital transformation includes three mainpillars: digital government, digital economy, and digital society.
During the digital transformation process, atthe central level, the Ministry of Information and Communications is thenational coordinating agency performing the functions and tasks of State managementand law enforcement on national digital transformation, e-government anddigital government development.
At the local level, he went on, the Departments ofInformation and Communications are to lead digital transformation in their localities.
It is necessary to determine which informationsystems must have cyber security and safety guaranteed at all costs, Dung stressed,adding that other information systems will be guaranteed in the way of riskmanagement.
Vietnam has some 60,000 digital technology enterprisesand the sector needs to mobilise all to address common problems in digital transformationfacing the country and localities, he added./.
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