The Party Executive Committee of Nghe An province approved the draft Resolution on digital transformation.
(Baonghean.vn) - Digital transformation in Nghe An focuses on developing digital databases, creating a foundation for developing digital government, digital economy, and moving towards a digital society; linking the digital transformation process with administrative reform to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of State management and the quality of public service provision by governments at all levels.
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Panorama of the 9th Conference of the Provincial Party Executive Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Digital transformation is inevitable
The conference discussed the draft Resolution of the Provincial Party Executive Committee on digital transformation of Nghe An province by 2025, with a vision to 2030.
According to the draft Resolution, digital transformation in the area focuses on developing digital databases, creating a foundation for developing digital government, digital economy, and moving towards a digital society; linking the digital transformation process with administrative reform to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of State management and the quality of public service provision by governments at all levels.
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Comrade Le Ba Hung - Director of the Department of Information and Communications presented the draft Resolution of the Provincial Party Executive Committee on digital transformation of Nghe An province by 2025, with a vision to 2030. Photo: Thanh Duy |
At the meeting, the discussion opinions basically agreed with the content of the draft Resolution setting out general and specific goals for 2025 and 2030 for digital infrastructure, digital government, digital economy, digital society, and smart cities in the province.
Speaking at the discussion, comrade Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council commented: Digital transformation is an inevitable requirement; thereby highly agreeing with the viewpoints set out in the draft Resolution, especially emphasizing the role of the leader in the digital transformation process.
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Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nhu Khoi said that digital transformation must first start with administrative reform. Photo: Thanh Duy |
The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council also agreed with the idea of taking businesses and people as the center of digital transformation; but suggested studying political, administrative, and public service agencies to promote digital transformation; because digital transformation first of all needs to come from the capacity to apply information technology and the service responsibility of the staff and civil servants.
To successfully implement the digital transformation process, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council Nguyen Nhu Khoi also suggested that in the implementation solution, it is necessary to pay attention to a separate mechanism on information technology service prices; as well as to issue criteria for evaluating agencies, administrative and public service units in the digital transformation process.
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Comrade Thai Van Thanh - Director of the Department of Education and Training suggested that there should be a policy on monitoring and evaluating management capacity and administrative reform when implementing digital transformation. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Sharing the same view, comrade Thai Van Thanh - Director of the Department of Education and Training proposed that the draft Resolution supplement the viewpoint of building and promulgating policy mechanisms not only on investment; but also monitoring and evaluating management capacity and administrative reform, thereby creating conditions to promote digital transformation.
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Comrade Duong Dinh Chinh - Director of Nghe An Department of Health suggested that attention should be paid to policies, including the policy of renting digital infrastructure. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Director of the Department of Health Duong Dinh Chinh analyzed that to successfully transform digitally, three important factors are: "digital infrastructure, people, and policy mechanisms". In particular, for Nghe An, the Director of the Department of Health said that it is necessary to pay attention to policies, including the policy of hiring digital infrastructure for implementation because this is currently the most difficult point from the practical experience of the health sector in achieving the goal of becoming one of the five localities in the country to build "smart health".
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Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee spoke at the discussion on the draft Resolution of the Provincial Party Executive Committee on digital transformation of Nghe An province by 2025, with a vision to 2030. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Speaking at the discussion on the draft Resolution, comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee basically agreed with the structure and content; as well as highly agreed with the viewpoints set forth in the draft Resolution.
Regarding the general goal, through analyzing the factors and potentials of the province, the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee said that Nghe An needs to strive to be in the top 20-25 provinces and cities with high indexes on Digital Government, instead of the goal of keeping a position in the top 30 as in the draft.
Will issue a set of criteria for evaluating digital transformation
Concluding this content, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy emphasized that digital transformation requires comprehensive changes from individuals and organizations; to be successful, leaders must really take drastic and responsible action and have an organizational and staff system that can meet the requirements of digital transformation management.
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Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy delivered a concluding speech on digital transformation. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Agreeing with the key tasks and solutions set out in the draft Resolution, the Provincial Party Secretary requested to review and simplify administrative procedures and conditions to ensure digital transformation integration; clearly assign responsibilities to agencies and units to implement indicators to improve the efficiency of providing online public services; urgently develop a set of criteria to evaluate digital transformation for agencies and units.
The Provincial Party Secretary also requested to create maximum favorable conditions for people to easily access and use online public services such as: connecting and sharing data between agencies and units.
Along with that, focus on raising awareness and skills for officials, people and businesses to serve the digital transformation process. Accordingly, the Provincial Party Secretary suggested building a platform to provide online courses to guide people and businesses to approach digital transformation and officials to improve digital transformation skills.
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| Delegates attending the 9th Conference of the 19th Nghe An Provincial Party Executive Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Through the implementation experience of some localities, the head of the Provincial Party Committee also requested calculations to deploy models such as: "community digital technology team" to help people, businesses, and officials with digital transformation skills; reduce fees for essential service groups when performing online public services; or only receive and process online records; assign online settlement records targets to departments, branches, districts, cities, towns, including at the commune level.
Regarding the contents with many discussed opinions, based on the opinions, the Provincial Party Secretary concluded: Nghe An needs to strive to be in the top 25-30 provinces and cities with high indexes on Digital Government; at the same time, "100% of State agencies at provincial and district levels have specialized information technology staff".