Transport is among the priority areas for digital transformation in Quang Ninh province (Photo: VNA)Vice Chairman of the provincial People’sCommittee Pham Van Thanh requested this process be sped up in 2022 whilespeaking at a recent teleconference looking into the plan on comprehensivedigital transformation in Quang Ninh by 2025, with a vision to 2030.
Focuses should be identified fordigital transformation, he stressed, asking departments, sectors, andlocalities to make strong moves in this regard.
Thanh pointed out the need to increasecommunications to change the mindset and actions of the entire political system,as well as local people and businesses. Besides, it is also necessary toinclude digital transformation targets and tasks in the resolutions,strategies, action plans, targets, and tasks on socio-economic development ofall-level administrations and sectors.
In its overall plan on digital transformation,Quang Ninh is set to perform several tasks and solutions to achieve the targetson developing a digital administration, digital economy, and digital society asdirected by the Government, ministries, central agencies, and the provincialParty Committee’s Standing Board.
In particular, it will work to have allthe newly issued administrative procedures available at Level 4 - the highestlevel for online public services, all state agencies providing open data andequipped with sufficient and quality infrastructure for digital transformation,at least 50 percent of the businesses in local industrial parks applyingdigital technologies into their operations, 100 percent of the local residents benefitingfrom electronic identification, and each family having a digital address.
The province is also striving to raisethe digital economy’s proportion in its gross regional domestic product (GRDP)to at least 20 percent.
It looks to complete eight importantdatabases by the end of 2023, namely the ones on land; cadres, civil servants, andpublic employees; health care; education; planning; tourism; public investment;and transport.
Meanwhile, 100 percent of the dossiers,papers, and results of the administrative procedure settlement at theprovincial, district, and communal levels will be digitalised from 2024. Atleast half of state agencies’ monitoring and examination activities will becarried out on the digital environment and their information systems by 2025.
Quang Ninh ranked fourth among the 63provinces and cities nationwide in the 2020 Digital Transformation Indexrankings, released last October, following Da Nang city and the provinces ofThua Thien-Hue and Bac Ninh.
Accordingto Deputy Minister of Information and Telecommunications Nguyen HuyDung, digital transformation sawa remarkable progress lastyear, with awareness of this issue among State agencies, businesses, and peoplesignificantly improving.
Digital transformation has become a trend in thewake of COVID-19,Dung said, adding it is a new engine driving the country’s socio-economicdevelopment and facilitating pandemic response and economic recovery.
Digital technology has found its way into everygovernmental, economic and social activity, he noted.
Chairmanof the Vietnam Software Association Nguyen Van Khoa said the national digitaltransformation and the journey towards a digital economy and digital society still have a long way to go. Everypeople and every business is increasingly aware of how digital technology and ismaking profound changes in all areas, particularly in the delivery of public administrativeand healthcare services.
ThePrime Minister of Vietnam approved the national digital transformationprogramme by 2025, with a vision to 2030 in June 2020.
Thisprogramme targets that by 2025, the digital economy will make up 20 percent ofVietnam’s gross domestic product (GDP) and at least 10 percent of each sector. Vietnamalso hopes to become one of the 50 best performers in the ICT Development Indexand the Global Competitiveness Index, and among the 35 leading countries in theGlobal Innovation Index by that year./.
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