High determination, great effort, continue to effectively implement Project 06

On the afternoon of December 21, the Government held a conference to evaluate the two-year implementation of the Project on developing applications of population data, electronic identification and authentication to serve national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period, with a vision to 2030 (Project 06).

Comrades: Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh - Chairman of the National Committee for Digital Transformation; Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang - Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Committee for Digital Transformation; Minister of Public Security General To Lam co-chaired the conference.

At Nghe An province, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired. Attending were leaders of relevant departments, branches and sectors.

MANY PRACTICAL RESULTS AFTER 2 YEARS OF IMPLEMENTING PROJECT 06

Over the past 2 years, with determined and drastic direction, creativity and courage in organization and implementation, the basic goals of Project 06 have been basically achieved. Notably, the awareness and actions of all levels, sectors and people regarding digital transformation in general and the implementation of Project 06 in particular have changed positively.

Many utilities from population data, citizen identification, electronic identification have been provided, people and society have enjoyed better and better, such as: 38/53 essential public services related to people have been provided on the National Public Service Portal. The rate of people participating in online public services in localities reached 58.2%. The implementation of essential public services has saved the State 2,505 billion VND annually.

Socio-economic development solutions continue to be promoted, directly contributing to economic development and improving the effectiveness of social governance, such as: completing the solution of using electronic invoices with codes from tax authorities; promoting non-cash payments in the fields of health, education, finance, etc.

For State agencies, Project 06 has contributed to changing the method of citizen management from manual, using documents to modern management methods, applying information technology. Improving the quality, efficiency, and accuracy in managing basic information of citizens between ministries, branches, and localities. Thereby, contributing to saving time, effort, and facilities in building and operating specialized databases.

The project has created and increasingly improved, connected, and shared databases serving national digital transformation, aiming to build a National Data Center. The National Population Database with more than 105 million data is supplemented and updated regularly to ensure "correct, sufficient, clean, and alive", connected with 15 ministries, branches, 1 state-owned enterprise, 3 telecommunications enterprises, and 63 localities.

The Ministry of Public Security has issued over 70.2 million electronic identification accounts to citizens; completed the issuance of over 84.7 million Citizen Identification Cards. From the original population data, it has promoted data cleaning and authentication, supported the creation of data for sectors, contributing to saving over 500 billion VND for ministries, sectors and localities.

Although many positive results have been achieved, there are still 26 tasks behind schedule according to the roadmap of Project 06 and the roadmap of directives, resolutions, and dispatches of the Government. The process for building, creating data, and using the budget to complete the technology infrastructure has not been completed; 15 essential public services have not been completed and provided on the National Public Service Portal...

At the conference, localities, enterprises, ministries and branches reported on the results of implementing Project 06 in the past 2 years; shared good experiences, valuable lessons, and creative ways of doing things; pointed out the slow progress, difficulties and problems in institutions, mechanisms, policies and the implementation process; and proposed some key solutions in the coming time.

FOCUS ON SPEEDING UP SLOW-PROGRESSING TASKS

Concluding the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assessed that after 2 years of implementing Project 06, many results have been achieved, demonstrating 6 contents: Leadership and direction work has been organized drastically and closely, awareness of the whole society has been increasingly raised; The work of perfecting institutions, mechanisms and policies has been actively and effectively deployed.

On the other hand, the implementation of online public services has been promoted, bringing about practical results; promoting connection and data sharing has achieved many results; creating an important foundation for digital citizenship; ensuring system security and safety has received attention. This shows that the implementation of Project 06 is completely correct, suitable for actual conditions, bringing many practical results to the socio-economic situation of our country.

Emphasizing and pointing out 6 shortcomings and limitations after 2 years of implementing Project 06, the Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and localities to propose solutions and focus on overcoming and removing them in the coming time. At the same time, he raised 3 lessons: The ideology must be clear, the determination must be high, the action must be drastic; the initiative and positivity of leaders are decisive; close coordination between ministries, branches, localities, people and businesses is very necessary.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the upcoming tasks are difficult and complicated, but they must still be done and we are determined to do them. Therefore, we request that the heads of ministries, branches and localities focus and be determined to work with the police force to effectively implement the tasks in Project 06.

From now until Lunar New Year 2023, the remaining 12 localities are required to promptly implement cashless social security payments; issue criminal records on the VNeID application in Thua Thien Hue province; and guide medical facilities and people to use electronic health book information on the VNeID application.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also requested localities to focus on resolving slow-progressing tasks; deploy tasks according to the roadmap, develop a plan to implement Project 06 in 2024; strengthen human resource training, improve the efficiency of online public services; strengthen database integration and sharing; promote propaganda work...

On this occasion, the Prime Minister awarded Certificates of Merit to 9 groups of the Ministry of Public Security and 17 groups of ministries, branches and localities for their achievements in implementing Project 06 of the Government.