Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)PM Chinh, who is head of the committee, stressed that the 13th National Party Congress’s document defines the national digital transformation as animportant task associated with three main pillars of digital government,digital economy, and digital society.
The Party, State, Government and Prime Minister have paidspecial attention to this work, towards building a digital government, economyand society, and digital citizens, he said.
The leader stated that he had approved the designation of October 10as the National Digital Transformation Day with three main goals of speeding up theimplementation of relevant tasks, improving public awareness of the role,significance and benefits of digital transformation, and boosting theengagement of the entire political system, concerted actions at all level, andthe participation of all people to ensure the success of the process.
Emphasising the heavy missions of the national committee, heasked it to direct and carry out policies and mechanisms to speed up thenational digital transformation in association with administrativereform; build and develop the e-Government, digital government, economy andsociety, and smart cities; and facilitate the implementation of the FourthIndustrial Revolution in Vietnam.
The committee was also tasked with removing obstacles andperfecting institutions for digital transformation; investing more in technologyand infrastructure; mobilising resources, including the public-private partnership;issuing new mechanisms and policies that are suitable to the general ones butalso have priorities to create a driving force for rapid development of digitaltransformation; innovating governance to meet higher requirements; and improvingthe quality of human resources.
Negative phenomena can easily occur as digitaltransformation is associated with investment in and upgrading of infrastructureand technology, PM Chinh noted, asking for regular inspection and supervisionto prevent corruption.
According to a report on the digital transformation situationin the first quarter of this year delivered by Deputy Minister of Informationand Communications Nguyen Huy Dung, as of late March, all the 22 ministries andsectors and the country's 63 provinces and cities had set up their own steering committees ondigital transformation, and 17 ministries and sectors and 57 localities issuedfive-year programmes/plans/projects on this work.
The rate of adults using smart phones was 70.91 percent,while the proportion of households with broadband fiber optic cable was 68.8percent.
The e-invoice system is being carried out nationwide,creating favourable conditions for both people and enterprises. In Q1, the taxationagency received and handled over 77.7 million e-invoices.
Total revenue of the digital economy is estimated at about53 billion USD in Q1, making 10.2 percent of GDP, of which the platformdigital economy has a growth rate of 28 percent with 8 billion USD in revenue./.
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