Vinh Phuc province is determined to advance digital government, economy, and society to attract investors and support businesses and citizens. As part of this effort, the local digital transformation is being implemented strongly, with an investment budget exceeding VND1,283 billion for 2014-2024.
FPT Corporation partners with the Vinh Phuc Provincial People's Committee to develop policies that promote digital transformation in the province
Consistent mechanisms and policies
Mr. Bui Hong Do, Director of the Vinh Phuc Investment Promotion and Business Support Center, said: In the past time, the province has issued several key directives on IT development and e-government construction towards a digital government, including Directive 23 from the Standing Board of the Provincial Party Committee on strengthening Party leadership in digital transformation, Directive 05 from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee on advancing IT application in government agencies, and Directive 04 from the Chairman on promoting digital transformation.
Vinh Phuc is the first locality to assign targets and tasks to agency leaders while seriously adopting processes, standards, regulations and assessment criteria according to central regulations and instructions. The province launched the Vinh Phuc E-government Architecture, the Vinh Phuc Smart City ICT Architecture, criteria for assessing and ranking information technology application and e-government construction in operations of governmental agencies, and indicators for assessing digital transformation in Vinh Phuc province.
Moreover, Vinh Phuc has issued legal documents on IT application and digital transformation, developed regulations on network security, and implemented document management software, official emails, and digital signatures. The province also manages the Provincial Public Service Portal, establishing guidelines for information safety, security, and software usage responsibilities. Additionally, electronic identification codes have been applied to Party and government agencies to guide technical activities, enhance IT integration, streamline administrative procedures, and improve data sharing and electronic document exchanges within the province.
Concurrently developing three pillars: digital government, digital economy and digital society
Vinh Phuc has seriously developed the three pillars of digital government, digital economy and digital society, which are considered the driving force to promote local socioeconomic development, improve government operations, add value to the economy and serve people and businesses
On digital government, the province's administrative procedure settlement information system currently provides 1,865 public services, including 954 full online public services, 645 partial online public services and 266 public information services. All qualified administrative procedures are provided fully online. 1,217 online public services have been integrated onto the National Public Service Portal, including 701 full online administrative procedures and 516 partially online administrative procedures. Furthermore, 479 administrative procedures currently require financial obligations, including 419 procedures integrated with the online payment utility on the National Public Service Portal. In the first six months of 2024, the Vinh Phuc Administrative Procedure Settlement Information System reported to receive 53% of records submitted partially and fully online while the rest were handled in person. As many as 371 official accounts at single-window divisions were regularly used to access the national population database, with 54,503 accesses to citizen information from the national population database for settling administrative procedures and performing professional tasks.
The document management and administration software is currently installed at all administrative agencies at all levels, connected with the Government Office and central agencies through the so-called national document interconnection axis; and integrated with specialized Government digital signatures to send and receive electronic documents. In the first six months of 2024, it served 493,356 incoming documents, 150,811 outgoing documents and 150,360 outgoing documents with digital signatures. 99.7% of documents on the software were digitally signed. The province issued 2,562 specialized Government digital certificates to 515 agencies and units and registered to issue 104 PKI SIMs to leaders of 22 agencies and units.
To boost the province's economic development in line with Technology 4.0 development trends, government agencies at all levels, people and businesses have endeavored to join and synchronize digital transformation solutions to increase the added value to some sectors in connection with the digital economy, estimated at 21% of its total GRDP. Over 10,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are using digital platforms in their management, operation, production and business.
All local companies have registered and submitted tax declarations online; all active companies have registered to pay taxes electronically and over 99% of payment slips and tax value have been settled electronically; and all companies have completed registering to use electronic invoices.
Being clearly aware that digital transformation brings conveniences to the daily life and activities of each citizen, the province is eagerly investing in developing the pillar of digital society. The network infrastructure and telecommunications services in the province are invested synchronously and modernly. Vinh Phuc has five telephone service providers and five internet service providers. They have focused on investing in service quality with 3,000 base transceiver stations (BTS) to ensure 3G and 4G mobile coverage in the entire province and operated two Viettel 5G stations. The province currently has 1.35 million mobile phone subscribers, 286,000 landline broadband internet subscribers and 1.05 million mobile broadband internet subscribers. 90% of households have subscribed to broadband internet services.
In the coming time, Vinh Phuc will continue to develop digital transformation to bring practical benefits associated with local socioeconomic development by attracting giant tech firms to develop the digital industry and manufacture electronic products, internet of things (IOT) products and artificial intelligence (IA).
At the working session with FPT Corporation in early November, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Tran Duy Dong emphasized that Vinh Phuc aims to become an industrial hub by 2030, focusing on leveraging its high-quality human resources to develop the high-tech and semiconductor industries. He hoped FPT Corporation will accelerate the progress of the Data Center Project at Thanh Long Vinh Phuc Industrial Park and assist in training skilled human resources for the region's development.
Agreeing on the education complex investment plan in the province, Chairman Dong assigned relevant agencies and localities to coordinate with FPT Corporation to promptly advise the provincial government to complete legal procedures and project procedures to start the FPT Education Complex Project in Vinh Phuc as soon as possible, early enough to welcome the 18th Provincial Party Congress. He also delegated the Vinh Phuc Investment Promotion and Business Support Center to work with FPT Corporation to this effect.
By Hien Hung, Vietnam Business Forum
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