Prime Minister: Urgently promote online public services

On the afternoon of January 18, the Government held a national online conference to deploy the Project on developing applications of population data, identification and electronic authentication to serve national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period, with a vision to 2030.

The conference was broadcast live to 4 levels: Government and ministries, branches; provincial level; district and commune level. Comrade Pham Minh Chinh - Politburo member, Prime Minister, Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation chaired at the main bridge. At the bridge of Nghe An Provincial People's Committee, Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh - Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation chaired the Conference. Photo: VGP

5 UTILITY GROUPS

The conference listened to the implementation of Decision No. 06/QD-TTg dated January 6, 2022 of the Prime Minister on approving the Project on developing population data applications; electronic identification and authentication to serve national digital transformation in the period 2022 - 2025, with a vision to 2030.

The project has identified 7 major guiding viewpoints; general goals and specific goals along with 5 groups of tasks and implementation solutions with a roadmap for each task in 2022 and the 2023 - 2025 period, with a vision to 2030.

Comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired at the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee bridge point. Photo: Thanh Duy

Along with that are 25 essential priority administrative procedures, integrating population data sharing to serve the settlement of administrative procedures such as: Re-issuance, change of citizen identification cards; permanent and temporary residence registration; temporary absence declaration; residence notification; registration, issuance of motorbike and scooter license plates; birth registration; marriage registration; first-time tax registration, registration of changes to tax registration information for taxpayers who are households and individuals;...

The project also issued a list of 52 specific tasks to be performed, with assigned responsibilities and completion timelines.

The overall goal of the Project is to apply the national population database, electronic identification and authentication system, and electronic chip-embedded citizen identification cards in the national digital transformation process by 2025, with a vision to 2030, to serve 5 groups of utilities: Serving administrative procedure settlement and providing online public services; serving socio-economic development; serving digital citizens; perfecting the ecosystem serving connection, exploitation, supplementation and enrichment of population data; serving the direction and administration of leaders at all levels.

Deputy Minister of Public Security Nguyen Duy Ngoc reported a summary of the content of the Project on developing population data applications, electronic identification and authentication to serve national digital transformation in the 2021-2025 period, with a vision to 2030. Photo: VGP

The exploitation and application of national population data, electronic identification and authentication systems are very important in serving socio-economic development and national digital transformation, bringing many immediate and long-term benefits in building e-Government, towards digital Government in the period of 2022 - 2030.

PROVINCES AND CITIES ESTABLISH WORKING GROUPS TO IMPLEMENT THE PROJECT

Speaking at the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that this is an important event that contributes to affirming our country's efforts in the process of promoting national digital transformation.

Regarding the tasks in the coming time, the Prime Minister emphasized that in order to successfully implement the Project, leadership and direction must be given top priority. Accordingly, it is necessary to identify the implementation of the Project as one of the important and breakthrough contents of the Government's digital transformation program in 2022 and the following years.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the conference. Photo: vov.vn

Therefore, the Project Implementation Working Group is required to regularly monitor, supervise and urge the assigned tasks; proactively guide ministries, branches and localities in organizing the implementation; promptly advise and report to competent authorities on difficulties and problems in the implementation process.

The Head of Government requested that provinces and cities establish working groups to implement the Project synchronously from top to bottom, ensuring unified leadership and direction.

Ministries, ministerial-level agencies, government agencies, People's Committees of provinces and centrally run cities, with the core role being the Public Security force, the Ministry of Information and Communications, in coordination with the Government Office; ministries and branches assigned with national databases are responsible for urgently developing programs, plans, roadmaps, timelines, and human resources for implementation, ensuring the Project is successfully implemented, associated with the implementation of the national digital transformation program.

Panorama of the conference at the Nghe An Provincial People's Committee bridge. Photo: Thanh Duy

The Prime Minister also requested that Party secretaries and People's Committee chairmen at all levels pay attention to directing strongly to promote the combined strength of the entire political system; on the basis of their functions, tasks and powers, strengthen inspection and direct supervision to the grassroots level to immediately remove arising obstacles and difficulties; step up propaganda and create consensus and participation of organizations, businesses and people.

Ministries, branches and localities urgently promote online public services, especially 25 essential public services to serve people and businesses identified in the Project.

At the conference, the Project Implementation Working Group consisting of 16 members from 11 ministries and branches led by General To Lam - Politburo member, Minister of Public Security, was introduced and received the task.