The application for electronic identification on smart phones (VNeID) has offered users great utilities, including the integration of various kinds of personal information and the ability to help citizens change their ID card or other legal papers. However, this app still encounters many problems that need addressing.
There are around 14,000 healthcare institutes, 44,000 educational institutes, nearly 1 million enterprises, 5 million household businesses, 9 million household farms, and 26 million families in Vietnam that are mobilized to participate in the digital transformation process of the country. On the National Digital Transformation Day today, SGGP Newspaper conducted an interview with experts and managers of various fields to collect their opinions on this important matter.
Possessing great economic and technological potentials, Vietnamese telecoms businesses must quickly transform themselves into digital technology ones in order to create a strong foundation for the national digital transformation to take place smoothly.
In the national digital transformation program approved by the Prime Minister, education is one of the 8 prioritized fields. It is essential to establish a national educational platform that allows the sharing and exploitation of databases effectively so that Vietnam can become one globally leading country in this process, said Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha in the recent conference ‘Digital Transformation in Education’.
Statistics from the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) reveal that the revenues of the IT industry last year were around US$100 billion, accounting for a third of the national GDP. Among them, 12,000 businesses earned $11 billion. In Vietnam, there are now 1 million employees in the IT industry, including 250,000 software programmers.
The Government has asked the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to prioritize mastering the ecosystem for Vietnamese cyber security products in order to best serve demands arisen from the process to establish an e-government, smart city, and essential national databases, as well as carrying out the national digital transformation.
The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) yesterday hosted a forum themed ‘Promoting the National Digital Transformation Proccess’.