The 2025 Digital Transformation Law and its key contents.

New highlights

Stemming from the requirements of the digital transformation task in the spirit of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW on breakthroughs in science, technology development, and national digital transformation, the Law on Digital Transformation, enacted in 2025, comprises 8 chapters and 48 articles to replace the Law on Information Technology of 2006; it also supplements several articles of the Law on Electronic Transactions of 2023, making it quite comprehensive and complete.

One of the new features is that the 2025 Digital Transformation Law incorporates concepts of digital transformation from Resolution 57 into the Law and builds a legal framework to facilitate the implementation of the transformation. Therefore, the 2025 Digital Transformation Law includes the following new contents:

Firstly, regarding the scope of regulation and the subjects to which it applies.Compared to the previous Information Technology Law, the Digital Transformation Law clearly defines the scope of digital transformation, its principles and policies, national coordination, and measures to ensure its success. Furthermore, the Law formally defines the content of digital government, digital economy, and digital society; and the responsibilities of agencies, organizations, and individuals in digital transformation.
Content related to data, electronic transactions, cybersecurity, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, and other specialized fields shall be implemented in accordance with the relevant laws and must ensure consistency with the principles and requirements stipulated in this Law. Domestic and foreign agencies, organizations, and individuals directly participating in or related to digital transformation in Vietnam must comply with the provisions of this Law.

Secondly, the concepts of digital transformation.The Law on Digital Transformation officially defines the concepts of digital transformation, digital infrastructure, public digital infrastructure, digital systems, digital platforms, digital processes, digital environment, digitization, process digitization, and digital data sharing. Alongside the concepts of digital government, digital economy, and digital society, the Law also provides unified definitions of digital services, online public services, and digital citizens to ensure public understanding and application.

Thirdly, prohibited behaviorsAccording to Article 5 of the Law on Digital Transformation, prohibited acts include obstructing or disrupting digital transformation activities, causing interruptions, delays, or insecurity to the digital systems of agencies, organizations, and individuals; illegally accessing, interfering with, falsifying, disabling, or damaging digital systems, digital data, digital platforms, and digital services; collecting, using, sharing, buying, selling, or exploiting digital data in violation of the law; and exploiting digital transformation for fraud, manipulation, profiteering, or infringing upon the legitimate rights and interests of agencies, organizations, and individuals.

In addition to the above regulations, the Law on Digital Transformation also stipulates principles and policies on digital transformation, including: principles of digital system architecture and design; minimum requirements for digital systems; state policies on digital transformation and international cooperation on digital transformation. The content on national coordination of digital transformation includes state management of digital transformation; promulgation of digital transformation strategies, programs, and plans; and a national digital architecture framework...

Fourth, measures to ensure the achievement of digital transformation goals and plans include:Training and developing digital human resources; attracting and utilizing experts in digital transformation; providing incentives for officials and civil servants working on digital transformation; financing for digital transformation...

Points to note when implementing the Law on Digital Transformation in Nghe An

In Nghe An, even before the Central Government issued the Resolution on breakthroughs in scientific development, considering the importance of the digital transformation requirement, the People's Committee of Nghe An province issued Decision No. 3050/QD-UBND dated November 12, 2024, promulgating the Digital Transformation Plan for Nghe An province until 2030. Subsequently, when the Central Government issued Resolution 57-NQ-TW and the Government issued the Action Program to implement Resolution 57, the People's Committee of the province issued the Plan/KH-UBND dated December 31, 2025, on the Digital Transformation Plan for 2026. With this Plan, Nghe An has outlined specific tasks and objectives for departments, agencies, and localities to develop plans and register for implementation.

However, from mid-2025, due to the transition to a two-tiered local government and the Digital Transformation Law of 2025 only coming into effect on July 1, 2026, along with the implementation of the 2026 Digital Transformation Plan, the Provincial People's Committee also directed the amendment of Decision 3050/QD-UBND dated November 12, 2024 on the Nghe An Province Digital Transformation Project until 2026.

Mr. Ho Trung Dong, Head of the Digital Transformation Department of the Department of Science and Technology, stated: Nghe An is one of the provinces that proactively leads in digital transformation. Even before the Central Government issued Resolution 57-NQ-TW on digital transformation, the province already had a Digital Transformation Project until 2030 and proactively issued a Digital Transformation Plan annually. Thanks to the province having issued a Digital Transformation Plan from the beginning of 2026, when the Law on Digital Transformation came into effect, the province focused on implementing Decree No. 224/2026/ND-CP guiding the Law on Digital Transformation.

Thanks to the proactive implementation of Resolution 57-NQ-TW, along with the successful implementation of Project 06 on the population database, Nghe An has achieved many digital transformation goals in various fields.
Specifically, the Department of Justice completed a 30-day campaign, from March 1st to March 31st, 2025, to digitize the electronic civil registry data and simultaneously committed to building a digital platform for disseminating and educating the public on legal matters and conducting online auctions in 2026. The Department of Agriculture and Environment actively implemented the construction of a land database for residential land and then other land types during the 90-day nationwide land data declaration and update campaign; the province has now risen to the top 10 provinces nationwide in this field. The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has built and launched the Culture and Sports Sector Database Portal; the Department of Science and Technology is implementing Project 06 in a new phase to effectively exploit and utilize population databases; the Department of Internal Affairs and the Party Committees of provincial Party agencies are building the digitization of records and data of Party members and officials…

Mr. Vo Trong Phu, Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Science and Technology, added: According to the Law on Digital Transformation and Decree 224/2026/ND-CP guiding its implementation, there are some adjustments, so the Provincial People's Committee is directing the revision of the province's digital transformation plan until 2030. Currently, the draft is being submitted to the Provincial Standing Committee for consideration and comments. While waiting, from now until the end of 2026, Nghe An needs to focus on implementing three key tasks: Focusing on addressing signal gaps and power shortages at public offices to synchronize digital infrastructure from the province down to the commune level according to the two-tiered government system; ensuring data is "correct, complete, clean, active, unified, and shared"; and connecting commune-level intelligent operation centers (IOCs) with the Provincial Intelligent Monitoring and Control Center. If successful, this will be the basis and prerequisite for achieving digital transformation goals in the following years and realizing the goal of leaving no one behind.

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Plan No. 02-KH/BCĐ dated August 2, 2026, of the Steering Committee of Nghe An province (implementing Resolution 57-NQ-TW and Project 06) outlines a 100-day intensive campaign to address 15 key tasks aimed at overcoming bottlenecks in digital transformation at the grassroots level: From July 10 to November 30, 2026, the Provincial People's Committee will urge departments and agencies to implement two main objectives before November 30, 2026. Accordingly, regarding equipment: Funding will be allocated to communes and wards to purchase terminal equipment; ensuring that 100% of Public Administrative Service Centers and administrative procedure processing staff have sufficient standard equipment. Regarding policies and regulations: Ensuring that 100% of people working on digital transformation at the commune level receive support according to Decree 179/2025/NĐ-CP.