Gov’t chief tasks Ha Noi to lead digital transformation

The Government chief made the request at a recent meeting that reviewed Ha Noi's implementation of Plan No. 06 on developing resident data applications and electronic identification and authentication to serve national digital transformation in the 2022 - 2025 period during the first half of 2024 on June 28, according to the Government Office’s July 15 announcement of his conclusion made at the meeting.

Specific tasks

It needs to view people and enterprises as the center, key players, and momentum for the implementation of Plan No. 06 while promoting people and enterprises' engagement so that they can directly benefit from this plan's achievements, according to the Government Office's July 15 announcement of his conclusion made at the meeting.

At the same time, the city should maintain discipline; boost the decentralization of power; resolutely prevent corruption, other negative phenomena, and group interests; and step up policy communication to help strengthen public consensus and confidence.

He requested that with its particularly important role as the national political - administrative center and an economic, cultural, scientific and educational locomotive of the entire country, Hanoi strive to lead in making reforms and developing digital economy, digital society, and digital citizens to secure a civilized and modern society.

In particular, the city was urged to foster restructuring to provide quality and efficient online public services integrated into the National Public Service Portal. It also needs to build and upgrade local information and database systems which must operate stably and be connected with the National Public Service Portal, along with the national and specialized information and database systems to serve the sharing and exploitation of online information for handling administrative procedures and public services for people and enterprises.

The Prime Minister urged the city to ensure 100 percent of dossiers for processing administrative procedures are harmonized with the National Public Service Portal, 100 percent of the administrative procedure settlement results returned online, at least 80 percent of the administrative procedure settlement dossiers and results digitalized, and at least 50 percent of the digitalized information and data utilized.

In addition, the capital was ordered to effectively implement electronic health records with all residents granted personal records, strongly pilot digital school records, grant personal digital signatures to 100 percent of the teachers and school staff members, enrich information, supply convenience for locals via e-identification app VNeID, and provide Level-2 identification accounts for 100 percent of the local population.

It is necessary for the city to boost cashless payment as well as digital transformation in tax, fee, and charge management, and drastically carry out e-invoice solutions, especially retail invoices handed to consumers.

He also asked for developing digital infrastructure, researching and effectively applying digital transformation tools such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data and virtual assistant, and guaranteeing cyber security and information safety.

Prime Minister Pham also asked the Capital to boost communications to update local residents on results and applications of Plan No. 06 so that they know, discuss, engage in, examine, monitor, and benefit from the work./.