16 ministries, branches and 63/63 provinces and cities have connected to the National Reporting Information System.

Attending the opening ceremony at the Hanoi bridge point was Comrade Nguyen Xuan Phuc - Politburo member, Prime Minister. Also attending were Deputy Prime Ministers, representatives of ministries, branches and 63 bridge points of provinces and cities.

In Nghe An, comrade Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the conference. Also attending were representatives of departments, branches, levels, provincial business associations and People's Committees of districts and cities.

At the opening ceremony, Minister and Head of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung emphasized: Based on the Prime Minister's guiding viewpoint of "Think big, look at the whole picture, act quickly, start from the smallest things", in recent times, ministries, branches and localities have made efforts to create strong changes in awareness and action in building e-Government and have achieved some very positive initial results. After establishing the National Committee on e-Government, the Government Office and ministries and branches immediately started implementing.

Comrade Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee chaired the opening ceremony from Nghe An bridge. Photo: Nguyen Hai

After more than 8 months of operation, the National Public Service Portal has operated and connected with 18 ministries, agencies, 63/63 localities and 8 banks, payment intermediaries, and e-wallet service providers; preparing to integrate and provide the 1,000th public service; with nearly 56.4 million visits; more than 220,000 registered accounts; over 14 million records synchronized status; over 260,000 records processed.

The total social cost saved when implementing public services is estimated at more than 13,000 billion VND/year, of which the National Public Service Portal contributes over 6,700 billion VND/year.

Nghe An has made certain efforts in operating the e-Government system, especially supporting business registration and tax administrative procedure declaration. In the photo: Delegates representing departments, associations and People's Committees of districts and cities follow the event from the Nghe An bridge. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Currently, 16 ministries and agencies have connected to the System; 20 reporting regimes and 61/200 socio-economic indicators serving the direction and administration of the Government and the Prime Minister have been deployed on the System. When digitizing reports and regulations from commune, district, provincial and ministry levels to the Government and the Prime Minister connecting through the System, it is estimated that the State budget will save 460 billion VND/year. Currently, the National Document Interconnection Axis has connected with 100% of ministries, branches, localities and many other agencies and organizations. This is an important system to promote the sending and receiving of information and data on electronic documents, reporting regimes, public services... and processing of work in the network environment. To date, there have been over 2.2 million electronic documents sent and received on the National Document Interconnection Axis. According to preliminary calculations, the Interconnection Axis saves the budget more than 1,200 billion VND/year.

Thanks to the Government Electronic Information Portal and national public services on the system, from now on, instead of having to send and receive paper reports, ministries and agencies will update the System in reporting mode and display in real time. The heads of the Government, ministries and agencies through the System can see the developments of the socio-economic situation or other issues of concern in the fields to manage proactively and promptly.

In particular, some sectors and localities, thanks to investment in the Electronic Information Portal, have made breakthroughs in the field of administrative procedure reform; people and businesses can declare and perform some administrative procedures at home without having to go to the office.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and delegates performed the opening ceremony. Photo: VNA

Speaking at the opening ceremony, a representative of the Government Office said: The opening of the System and the Center is just the first step in the process of innovating working methods and digital transformation in the management activities of state agencies. Therefore, there are still many immediate and long-term tasks that need to be carried out, requiring the drastic and synchronous participation of ministries, branches and localities, especially the updating, connecting and sharing to form and enrich the comprehensive data warehouse on socio-economics to serve management and operation activities. Relevant agencies, units and localities must increase training in information sharing to make it easy for people and businesses to access; convert and build reporting forms to update promptly and fully to the System...

After the official opening ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc directed the direct experience with the People's Committees of some localities and sectors via the National Electronic Information Portal infrastructure./.