Digital transformation to improve the effectiveness of volunteer activities

Support connection for agricultural product consumption

Faced with the serious impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the consumption of agricultural products by farmers at home and abroad has encountered many difficulties. In that situation, the program "Connecting agricultural products - Sharing love - Joining hands to overcome the pandemic" has been synchronously deployed by all levels of the Youth Union across the province. In particular, the Youth Union of the Provincial Agencies has boldly innovated its operating methods and promoted digital transformation to improve the effectiveness of its volunteer activities.

As the leading unit in the Bloc of agencies in the program of connecting and supporting farmers to consume products, the Provincial Market Management Department has become the focal point for consuming nearly 112 tons of lychee for Bac Giang people.

In addition to the retail channel at the agency, the Department also connects with many agencies and businesses inside and outside the province to expand the scale and quantity of agricultural product consumption. In particular, the youth union is the vanguard force, recognized by the agency for its creativity in implementing the assigned tasks.

Nghe An Market Management Department receives and supports lychee consumption for Bac Giang people.

Sharing about this process, Secretary of the Youth Union of the Market Management Department Tran Thi Bao Giang said that from the first days of receiving information about the difficulties that lychee growers in Bac Giang faced in the process of consuming agricultural products, the entire agency unanimously stood up to call for help to help people overcome this difficult period. However, how to make orders, summarize orders and divide orders by region in a scientific way is extremely difficult.

Understanding that, the Standing Committee of the Youth Union has built, launched and guided the Youth Union to use the software to support the consumption of agricultural products through two websites: ketnoinongsan.vn and nongsanthanhnien.nghean.vn. From here, the data is automatically updated and synthesized clearly and scientifically by the software, helping the process of importing and consuming goods to take place smoothly. At the same time, the consumption area is also expanded many times compared to the traditional implementation method.

Thanks to that, in less than 10 days since the program was launched, the agency has recorded thousands of people registering to buy. The amount of lychee consumed increased rapidly and reached nearly 112 tons. With a selling price of 25,000 VND per kg, excluding the costs incurred during the transportation process, the amount of lychee sales support has contributed to helping people overcome difficulties in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic.

In just a short time, the Provincial Market Management Department has supported the consumption of nearly 112 tons of lychee for Bac Giang people.

Looking at the whole province, in recent times, along with the application of digital transformation in the process of supporting people to consume agricultural products, the activities of connecting and consuming agricultural products have been effectively deployed in the grassroots units of the Provincial Agencies' Youth Union. The total amount of agricultural products of all kinds that have supported people to consume is more than 150 tons.

Creating a secure key for community activities

On June 26, the program "Red Journey - Keep the Heart Beating" by the Provincial Red Cross in collaboration with the Provincial Agencies' Union, Nghe An Civil Servants' Union and Nghe An Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center created a great impact. This activity has become more meaningful than ever when blood reserves are in a state of scarcity.

Comrade Chu Ba Long - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of Agencies participated in blood donation. Photo: Minh Cong

At the program, Doctor Nguyen Dinh Khue - Director of Nghe An Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center said that the amount of blood reserved to serve the treatment work at the center is seriously lacking due to the small number of donors for many reasons such as: people outside Vinh city cannot donate because the city is under social isolation; members of the live blood bank - most of whom are students are on summer vacation; many people in Vinh city are also not donating blood due to fear of the epidemic.

Volunteers can register to donate blood online and donate in batches of less than 10 people at a time to ensure safety during the Covid-19 pandemic.

To address concerns about the epidemic, the Standing Committee of the Youth Union of the Bloc has proactively raised the issue and proposed to the Provincial Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center to develop a plan to register for blood donation online, through scanning QR codes on media images or directly on the Website:https://hienmau.tthhtmnghean.vn/. With this method, volunteers do not need to register directly but can do it at home. From that registration information, the Provincial Hematology and Blood Transfusion Center will carry out the donation according to 10 people per hour. By ensuring good principles of disease prevention and control, blood donation will ensure almost absolute safety for volunteers during the blood donation process.

Staff and reporters of Nghe An Newspaper participate in blood donation. Photo: Phuong Thu

Thanks to this method, on the first day of implementation, the program received 40 registered volunteers. Since the program was launched, 125 units of blood have been collected. Some officials from units such as the Provincial Party Committee, Nghe An Newspaper, Provincial Red Cross... have actively participated in donating blood.

Referring to the volunteer activities in this year's Pink Holiday Campaign, comrade Nguyen Cong Minh - Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union of Agencies said: "Recognizing the importance of digital transformation in volunteer activities for the community, especially in the face of increasingly complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Youth Union of Agencies has identified advising and pioneering in innovating activities towards actively applying IT to volunteer programs as a key task".

Chibi model declares information via QR code to control people entering and leaving the headquarters of agencies and units.

From that goal, in recent times, agencies and units in the province have been bold, creative, and coordinated with organizations and individuals to launch products and projects applying IT in activities such as: Model of information declaration via QR code to control people entering and leaving the headquarters of agencies and units or managing personnel participating in meetings and conferences; Guiding Youth Union activities with staged videos instead of documents as before; Propagating and supporting people to use "VssID - Digital Social Insurance" which is an application of Vietnam Social Security on mobile platforms; launching the model "Sending old computers - giving new knowledge" to support children in mountainous and disadvantaged areas to get closer to technology...

All of the above activities have received positive responses, creating a wide spread among union members and youth and bringing positive results. This is the driving force for the Youth Union of Provincial Agencies to continue to contribute effectively to the development of digital government, digital economy, digital society and the application of technology in Party and Union work.