Appointment of new General Director of Government Portal

Mr. Vi Quang Dao, Deputy General Director of the Government Portal, was appointed General Director to replace Mr. Pham Viet Dung, who retired from June 1, 2015.

On the morning of May 25, Minister and Head of the Government Office Nguyen Van Nen presented the Decision appointing Mr. Vi Quang Dao, Deputy General Director of the Government Portal, Editor-in-Chief of the Government Electronic Newspaper to hold the position of General Director of the Government Portal and Editor-in-Chief of the Government Electronic Newspaper from June 1, 2015.

Minister, Head of the Government Office Nguyen Van Nen highly appreciated the first General Director of the Government Portal - Mr. Pham Viet Dung, who laid the foundation and built the Government Portal to develop more and more in the past 10 years. Mr. Pham Viet Dung has completed his tasks excellently and retired from June 1, 2015.

The Minister expects the new General Director of the Government Portal, Vi Quang Dao, to successfully complete his tasks, continue to build and develop the Government Portal to become stronger and stronger, and fulfill the important responsibilities entrusted to him by the Government, the Prime Minister, and the leaders of the Government Office.

Minister and Head of the Government Office Nguyen Van Nen presented the decision to appoint Mr. Vi Quang Dao as General Director of the Government Portal. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

Minister Nguyen Van Nen emphasized the increasingly high demands of the country's new development period, thereby requiring the new General Director Vi Quang Dao and the Government Portal team to strive even harder to serve more effectively the direction and administration of the Government and the Prime Minister and meet the legitimate information needs of all classes of people and businesses.

"To achieve that, there is no other way, the head of the agency must be the nucleus of unity, gathering and promoting the intellectual strength and capacity of each employee to complete the common task," Minister Nguyen Van Nen emphasized.

The new General Director of the Government Portal, Vi Quang Dao, expressed that this is both an honor and a great responsibility that he personally can only strive to do his best to complete at the highest level; together with the leadership team and cadres, civil servants and public employees of the Government Portal, inherit and promote the achievements of the previous generation of cadres and the agency's collective, unanimously and striving over the past 10 years to build and develop the Government Portal into an important unit performing one of the three pillars of the Government Office, increasingly serving the direction and administration of the Government and the Prime Minister, meeting the requirements of the cause of building, protecting and developing the country.

According to Decision 06/2013/QD-TTg dated January 24, 2013 of the Prime Minister, the Government Portal is an agency integrating electronic administrative information and a multimedia information agency of the Government, under the Government Office, directly managed by the Minister and Head of the Government Office.

The Government Portal has the function of organizing, managing and publishing official information of the Government and the Prime Minister; connecting the Government's electronic administrative information network with ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, People's Councils, People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities and related agencies and organizations; integrating information on online public services of the Government.

The organizational structure of the Government Portal includes: Electronic Administration and Official Gazette Department; Planning and Finance Department; Office; Government Electronic Newspaper (Government Electronic Newspaper has permanent offices in the cities of Ho Chi Minh, Da Nang, Can Tho); Center for Technology and Multimedia Communications; Electronic Data Center./.

According to VOV