Nghe An Provincial Party Committee updates knowledge on digital transformation

Delegates attending the conference. Photo: TG

Attending the conference were comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies' Block, comrades in the Standing Committee, Standing Committee of the Party Committee, members of the Party Executive Committee of the Block; comrades secretaries of grassroots Party committees.

The conference was broadcast live to 169 points of 63 grassroots party organizations, with the participation of 5,561 cadres, party members and people throughout the Party Committee.

Comrade Chu Ba Long - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies delivered the opening speech at the conference. Photo: TG

In his opening speech, comrade Chu Ba Long - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of the Provincial Government Office said that recently, digital transformation and the 4.0 industrial revolution are keywords that many people have mentioned, often mentioned and discussed in meetings of the Government, People's Council, People's Committee, and Provincial Party Executive Committee.

Showing interest in this content, the Central Government has issued a number of guidelines and policies on proactively participating in the 4.0 revolution, emphasizing the urgent need to accelerate digital transformation. The Government has issued Decision 749/QD-TTg on national digital transformation by 2025, with a vision to 2030, establishing the National Committee on digital transformation...

The Nghe An Provincial Party Committee also issued Resolution 05 on promoting administrative reform in the province, the Provincial People's Committee issued a plan to implement...

The grassroots Party secretaries attended the conference at the main bridge. Photo: TG

Affirming that digital transformation is an extremely important content, a trend of each country and nation, an inevitable need to make the country and locality develop rapidly, the Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of the Provincial Public Security Bloc also pointed out that in the process of awareness, there are many questions raised about the nature, content and impact on the fields of digital transformation that need to be clarified and updated.

Master Nguyen Phu Tien - Deputy Director of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Information and Communications reported on the topic "Digital transformation - from awareness to action". Photo: TG

At the conference, comrade Nguyen Phu Tien - Deputy Director of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Information and Communications, directly participated in advising and drafting the national digital transformation program, reported on the topic "Digital transformation - from awareness to action".

The topic clearly shows that digital technology is essentially information technology but has developed very rapidly in recent times, converging a number of core technologies of information technology and creating transformations and breakthroughs such as Internet of Things devices, artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, blockchain... Digital transformation is a process of overall and comprehensive change of individuals and organizations in the way of life, working and production methods based on digital technology, which must come from self-needs... In terms of awareness of digital transformation, Vietnam is in step with developed countries in the world.

Scene at the main bridge. The conference was broadcast live to 169 bridges of 63 grassroots party organizations, with more than 5,500 cadres, party members and the masses in the entire Party attending. Photo: TG

At the national level, comrade Nguyen Phu Tien analyzed 5 main tasks: Creating the foundation for digital transformation, developing digital government, developing digital economy, developing digital society and digital transformation in priority areas.

The representative of the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Information and Communications also explained the necessity of digital transformation at the local level, pointed out some mistakes and emphasized the importance and role of the leader in leading and directing the implementation of digital transformation, at the same time, it is necessary to select the content and field of digital transformation, build a roadmap and apply pilot and testing...

Comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies' Block summarized and closed the conference. Photo: TG

Closing the conference, Comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee of the Provincial Public Security Bloc assessed that the Conference has extremely important and urgent significance in the current period when Nghe An province is in the process of drastically implementing and promoting administrative reform; at the same time, together with other provinces in the country, implementing the goal of National Digital Transformation according to the direction of the Central and the Government.

Frankly pointing out some current limitations such as untimely awareness and action, the situation where Party committees and heads of agencies and units are sometimes and in some places not resolute in directing and operating the application and development of information technology, digital skills of cadres and party members are not uniform, human resources in information technology are seriously lacking... Comrade Nguyen Thi Kim Chi emphasized that Party organizations, cadres, party members and the masses in the Provincial Agencies Bloc need to unify the viewpoint: awareness plays a decisive role in digital transformation; institutions and technology are the driving force of digital transformation; ensuring network safety and security is key and the participation of the entire political system, synchronous actions at all levels and the participation of cadres, party members and the masses in the entire Party Committee are factors ensuring the success of digital transformation in provincial agencies.

Therefore, the task in the coming time is that Party committees, Party organizations, and Party members must identify digital transformation as the task of the entire political system, in which the role of the leader is especially important. The grassroots Party committees identify, proactively discuss, and lead agencies and units to deploy information technology application contents, initially digital transformation in each field that the industry is in charge of...