Minister-Chairman of the Government's Office Mai Tien Dung (front, right) and World Bank Country Director in Vietnam Ousmane Dione exchange the signed cooperation agreement on e-government building at the meeting (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The nationale-government committee made debut at its first meeting in Hanoi on September 20under the chair of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.
The committee is headed by thePM, while Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam serves as its Vice Chairman andMinister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung is permanent memberand General Secretary.
Building an e-government is oneof the important contents of administrative reform towards realising theGovernment’s vision of a facilitating and action-oriented Government ofintegrity.
In 2018, Vietnam has moved up oneplace in the UN rankings on e-government to the 88th position among193 countries and territories and the 6th among 11 countries inSoutheast Asia compared to 2016. Since the Ministry of Information andCommunication (MoIC) issued the Vietnam E-Government Architecture Framework(version 1.0) in 2015, more than 50 ministries, agencies and local administrationshave started researching and building e-government architecture.
Among the base platforms for ane-government, the national business registration database has been put intooperation, while those on population, land, finance and insurance are underconstruction.
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All ministries, sectors andlocalities have established their own websites or portals and updated themregularly, basically meeting the requirements of management and the needs tolook for information by people and businesses. Ministries and sectors have sofar provided 1,551 online services at the two highest levels of 3 and 4, whilelocal administrations have supplied 45,374 services.
Addressing the meeting, PM Phucsaid Vietnam is still at the average level in e-government rankings bothglobally and regionally, so the country needs stronger resolve in the work.
He noted that the presence offour major IT companies in the national e-government committee demonstrates thepublic-private partnership in the field, and the participation of the PM and a DeputyPM in the committee reflects the high political determination to build ane-government.
The PM required that the MoIC buildthe version 2.0 of the Vietnam E-Government Architecture Framework in October,in line with the world trend of e-government and the fourth industrial revolution,to submit to the PM for consideration and issuance.
He also urged accelerating thebuilding of national databases on population, insurance, finance and land, withfirst priority given to the population database.
During the meeting, thecommittee’s members focused attention on solutions to remove obstacles in e-governmentbuilding, specific targets for each period, and the committee’s working plan at the end of this year.
On the occasion, the PM witnessed the signingof cooperation agreements on e-government building between the GovernmentOffice and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the WorldBank in Vietnam, along with regulations for coordination between the GovernmentOffice and the MoIC and the Government Information Security Commission.-VNA
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