The head of the agency or unit must be responsible for the results of information technology application.

On the morning of January 15, under the chairmanship of Mr. Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Provincial Information Technology (IT) Steering Committee met to listen to and give opinions on the situation of IT application in the province and the results of implementing Resolution 17/NQ - CP dated March 7, 2019 of the Government on a number of key tasks and solutions for e-Government development in the 2019-2020 period, with a vision to 2025. Photo: Thanh Le

According to the Steering Committee's assessment over the past year, IT application activities in the province have had important changes in awareness and action. Initially promoting administrative reform and contributing to socio-economic development, national defense, security and Party building.

Specifically, the online public service portal and one-stop shop of Nghe An province, addresshttp://dichvucong.nghean.gov.vn(operational since January 10, 2017), currently has 20 departments, branches, sectors and 21 districts, cities and towns participating. Up to now, the system has provided 1,769 online public services, including 1,138 level 2 public services; 581 level 3 online public services; 50 level 4 public services. In the first 11 months of 2019 alone, the system has received 242,272 records (including 2,649 records received online).

Deploying document management and administration software, connecting to send and receive documents on VNPT - Ioffice software for 20/20 department-level units, 21/21 district-level People's Committees, 480/480 commune-level People's Committees. Connecting from the Provincial People's Committee Office to the Government Office.

Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Communications Phan Nguyen Hao reported on the results of IT application in the province. Photo: Thanh Le

With the domain name mail.nghean.gov.vn deployed in State agencies in the province, there have been 57 domain names, 285 mail groups and 7,852 mail accounts; 100% of State agencies in the province have been provided with official mailboxes for information exchange.

The online video conferencing system has 26 bridges, connecting the Provincial People's Committee with the People's Committees of districts, cities and towns, serving over 30 online meetings from the province to the district each year. In 2019, it served 33 intra-provincial meetings.

Currently, the province has 20 departments, branches, 21 districts, cities, towns, branches, public service units under the departments, Vinh City General Hospital, Nghe An Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital that have been granted certificates by the Government Cipher Committee. The province currently has 2,928 collective and individual digital certificates issued and put into use.

Along with that, in recent years, the province's telecommunications - IT infrastructure has been continuously invested in, expanded and developed; information security is ensured.

Training on IT application for state agencies. Photo: Thanh Le

Promote the responsibility of the leader

Discussing at the conference, delegates discussed the results of IT application in agencies and units; building smart tourism projects in the area; difficulties in human resources, investment in IT application equipment, transmission lines, especially in mountainous communes, remote and isolated areas.

Delegates' opinions reflected the lack of synchronization in software integration; evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of software, especially shared software, email systems; upgrading the province's online public service portal; connecting software to the reporting information system...

Vice Chairman of Nghia Dan District People's Committee Phan Van Binh discussed the results of applying IT in the district. Photo: Thanh Le

Concluding the meeting, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Ngoc Hoa assessed that in recent times, the province has exploited IT application relatively well, gradually building an e-government framework, applying IT towards the digital economy.

Orienting the application and development of IT in 2020, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee will develop and deploy software, select a number of areas to develop smart cities and build a smart operation center associated with the Provincial Public Administration Service Center; apply IT in urban management; update and integrate architecture in the e-Government construction framework; smart cities in accordance with the e-Government Architecture Framework.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Ngoc Hoa concluded the meeting. Photo: Thanh Le

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department of Information and Communications to advise the province to complete and upgrade IT infrastructure and software to deploy the Public Administration Service Center, pilot the smart operation center to complete the e-Government architecture.

At the same time, mobilize resources and cooperate with large corporations in IT and e-commerce to create resources for IT development, e-government and information security in the province. Develop programs and plans for IT application, advise the province on allocating investment funds to build e-Government.

Emphasizing that IT has a great impact on the effectiveness of administrative reform, the annual assessment of the PAR Index will include the IT application index for assessment and consider this as a component index of the Provincial Administrative Reform Index.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee requested that departments, branches and localities pay more attention to IT application; especially the heads of agencies, units and localities must be responsible to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee for the results of their units' IT application./.