Prime Minister directs development of digital transformation projects for ministries, branches and localities

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The Directive stated: In recent times, the implementation of the Prime Minister's decisions on the National Digital Transformation Program, the Strategy for e-Government Development towards Digital Government and the National Strategy for Digital Economy and Digital Society Development, and the Data Strategy has achieved many positive results. Basic technical infrastructure meets the needs; national and specialized databases have been promoted to be built and gradually put into operation and use; many public services have been provided online; the digital economy and digital society have both developed positively; the digital skills of civil servants, public employees and people have been improved; the national ranking on e-Government has been improved...

However, the implementation process also revealed many challenges and shortcomings such as: leaders in some ministries, branches and localities have not considered digital conversion, digital economic development is a key task; institutional improvement and administrative procedure reform progress slowly; there are still some areas without national grid electricity, leading to difficulties in deploying digital infrastructure…

Digital transformation is a difficult task, requiring high determination, drastic action and clearly defining key tasks, solutions, and breakthroughs to create momentum for the digital transformation process, developing the digital economy and digital society. The Project on Developing the Application of Population Data, Electronic Identification and Authentication to Serve National Digital Transformation in the 2022-2025 Period, with a Vision to 2030 (Project 06) by Police Presiding over the construction, this is an important and breakthrough project in promoting national digital transformation, creating many utilities and services, bringing practical benefits, serving people and businesses better and more effectively.

The success of Project 06 has helped draw many lessons that need to be learned, promoted and expanded by ministries, branches and localities nationwide, contributing to further promoting the national digital transformation process. In that spirit, to overcome the shortcomings in the recent past, create momentum and breakthroughs for digital transformation and develop the digital economy and digital society, the Prime Minister requested ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies under the Government, People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities, based on the approach and lessons learned from the successful implementation of Project 06, each ministry, sector and locality should study and find their own breakthroughs, develop a digital transformation project similar to Project 06 and ensure connectivity with Project 06, focus on directing the completion and success of the implementation from now until the end of 2025, in line with the National Digital Transformation Program, e-Government development strategies towards Digital Government, the National Strategy for Digital Economy and Digital Society Development, the National Data Strategy, Project 06 and other digital transformation strategies, programs, projects and plans of ministries, sectors and localities.

Principles of building a digital transformation project

The digital transformation project when built must be based on the following principles:

– Select breakthroughs that have a wide range of impact on industries, sectors, and localities under management to be included in the project. Solving these issues will create key driving forces to promote activities and create breakthroughs in digital transformation and digital economic development of ministries, sectors, and localities.

– Breakthroughs can focus on the content of digital economic development with 4 pillars: information technology industry, digital industry economy, digital governance and digital data or developing digital government, digital administration, smart cities based on the principle of taking people and businesses as the center.

– Issues included in the project must be specific, clear, and measurable (priority given to online forms via digital platforms). Tasks must be clearly assigned to people, work, time, responsibilities, and results.

– The project must ensure feasibility and can be implemented immediately based on practical needs and within the current legal framework without having to amend institutions and policies.

– Clearly define the list of tasks of ministries, branches and localities in promoting development and investment and construction, avoiding overlap and waste.

– Ensure synchronization with national, sectoral and field programs and strategies; resolutions, projects and plans of ministries, sectors and localities on digital transformation to avoid duplication and optimize implementation resources.

– Have plans and solutions to ensure network security and network information safety to limit the risk of revealing and losing state secrets, internal information and personal user data in cyberspace.

– The budget for implementing the project is balanced from the budgets of ministries, branches and localities and is implemented practically and effectively. If necessary, it will be reported to the Prime Minister for consideration and decision.

– The development, promulgation and implementation of the project must ensure compliance with the procedures and resources for project implementation as prescribed by law.

The Prime Minister assigned ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities to directly preside over identifying breakthroughs and ensuring that there are breakthrough projects to implement digital transformation in the sectors, fields, and management scope of their ministries, sectors, and localities.

In the process of identifying breakthroughs, ministries, branches and localities must closely follow the reality of digital transformation, ensuring synchronization and connection with the implementation of Project 06 in their ministries, branches and localities.

Ministries, branches and localities related to the draft sub-projects on digital transformation must ensure connection with Project 06 developed by the Ministry of Public Security, transfer to ministries, branches and localities according to the direction of the Government at Point d, Clause 18, Appendix to Resolution No. 82/NQ-CP dated June 05, 6 of the Government, organize research, integrate tasks and solutions into the content of the digital transformation project of their ministries, branches and localities.

Ministries, branches and localities, based on the identified breakthroughs, develop a breakthrough digital transformation project for their sector, field and locality. In cases where ministries, branches and localities already have a Program/Project/Proposal on breakthrough digital transformation of the sector, field and locality under their management, the ministries, branches and localities need to explain and clearly identify the breakthroughs and feasibility to focus on completing the implementation from now until the end of 2025. The completion time is before October 15, 10 (including the case of developing a new project).

Ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, and Chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities are responsible to the Prime Minister for implementing the project in their sectors, fields, and localities. Monthly meetings are held to review and resolve difficulties and problems in the implementation of the project.