From smart villages in the West to the end of queuing to submit school applications

On the morning of April 24, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation, chaired the 8th session of the Committee, with a focus on discussing the digital economy. National online connection meeting from Government headquarters to People’s Committee headquarters of provinces and centrally run cities.

Attending the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, Standing Vice Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation (Committee); Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung, Vice Chairman of the Committee; with ministers, leaders of ministries, branches, and members of the Committee; leaders of localities, corporations, and large information technology enterprises.

The meeting focused on assessing the situation digital conversion, developing the digital economy from the beginning of the year until now and discussing key tasks of digital transformation and digital economic development in the coming time.

Research and build 3 virtual assistants

According to calculations by the Ministry of Information and Communications, the proportion of digital economy/GDP in 2021 and 2022 is 11.91%, 14.26% respectively. The proportion of digital economy/GDP in 2023 is estimated to reach 16.5% with a growth rate of 20%, 3 times higher than GDP growth.

Reported by EconomySEA by Google, Temasek and Bain Assessing Vietnam’s digital economic growth rate as the fastest in Southeast Asia for 2 consecutive years (2022 reaching 28%, 2023 reaching 19%), 3.5 times higher than the GDP growth rate.

With the above growth rate, it is forecast that the proportion of digital economy/GDP of Vietnam in 2025 will reach over 20%.

According to Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Pham Duc Long, 2024 is the year “Digital economic development with 4 pillars of IT industry, digitalization of economic sectors, digital management, digital data – An important driving force for rapid and sustainable socio-economic development”.

“The new production factor is digital data, the new production relationship is digital management, the new productive force is digital technology,” said the Deputy Minister of Information and Communications.

To develop the IT industry, the Ministry of Information and Communications will research and propose amendments to Decree 154 on concentrated IT parks to create conditions for the development of concentrated IT parks, especially in localities with good human resources and lower infrastructure. Green, renewable energy and convenient transportation and travel conditions.

Along with that, research and develop the Digital Technology Industry Law so that the IT industry becomes a foundation industry. Promote training in new industry groups (microchips, AI, data) in accordance with the needs and development trends in the world.

Regarding data, the Ministry of Information and Communications proposes that each economic sector, ministry, and locality choose to build 3-5 high-quality data sets. Each economic sector selects and announces 5 scenarios for exploiting and using data to create new momentum for socio-economic development.

Regarding digital governance, the Ministry of Information and Communications is developing 3 virtual assistants.

Among them, virtual legislative assistant to detect conflicts when making legal documents; virtual assistants supporting law enforcement to support officials and civil servants in carrying out their work according to regulations; The virtual legal assistant for people will answer people’s questions related to the law and state regulations.

Hanoi will stop queuing to apply to schools

According to Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son, the industry has completed building a database on education from preschool to high school, collecting information from 100% of schools (nearly 53,000 schools, 1.6 million staff records, 24 million student records), completed the construction of a database on higher education with 470 higher education institutions, over 25,000 training programs, over 153,000 staff records, nearly 3 million records. learner profile.

The education sector database has also enriched the national population database with educational information of more than 24 million citizens.

Notably, the database on higher education has been connected to the national database on insurance, synchronizing data on graduates (employed workers). To date, we have connected and synchronously shared employment data of over 97,000 students graduating in 2022 and nearly 7,400 students graduating in 2023 (the education sector knows the insurance codes of graduates, the How much salary, what field do you work in). Currently, training institutions are continuing to review and update graduate student data to have reliable assessment and analysis reports.

63 Departments of Education and Training are planning and organizing pilot implementation of digital school records. By June 2024, the Ministry will hold a conference to summarize the pilot of digital school records to evaluate and prepare for the application of official digital school records. nationwide from this 2024-2025 school year.

The Minister also informed that from 2022, 100% of students (about 1 million candidates annually) will register to take the online high school graduation exam and nearly 700,000 candidates (annually) will register for online university admission. .

This year, Hanoi is determined that all schools in the area will apply online admission from the 2024-2025 school year, in order to end the situation of parents lining up to submit applications. Any school that violates will not be assigned targets.

The first “smart village” in the country

According to the Provincial People’s Committee Dong Thap, digital transformation is very important for “out of the way” localities like Dong Thap. In parallel with the implementation of the digital agricultural data platform, Dong Thap has invested in 15 smart insect monitoring systems and 4 automatic water level monitoring stations in the area.

In 2024, the province will continue to invest in expanding equipment infrastructure for digital transformation of the agricultural sector: Smart insect monitoring systems (23 systems), flood monitoring and warning stations (36 stations), Camera system to monitor crop growth cycle (36 systems), automatic soil temperature and humidity measurement system (100 points) to build an automatic, fast, and accurate monitoring network High.

Dong Thap is also the first locality in the country to pilot the implementation of the “Smart Village” model in Tan Thuan Tay commune, Cao Lanh city. Up to now, the model has been basically completed with a number of highlights: Automatic smart irrigation system using solar energy; soil, water and air environmental monitoring system; smart public lighting system; social security surveillance cameras; Build electronic information portal and application database system. The “smart village” model has begun to be replicated in localities in the province, initially in newly improved rural communes.

Provincial leaders Binh Duong said that the province is comprehensively digitally transforming industrial zones/clusters and manufacturing plants (revenue growth is from 5-25%) depending on the level of investment in digital transformation. Currently, the province has 6 industrial parks applying Becamex’s smart management and operation platform and is converting 3 factories into smart production (Orion, Takako, Vinamilk).

The province continues to promote the digital transformation of industrial parks, converting each traditional manufacturing factory to smart production, applying automation technology solutions, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things ( IoT), 5G network for industry, data analytics to collect real-time data and automate processes to optimize resources, while saving costs and time for businesses to operate. Smart operations, gradually converting existing production infrastructure, gradually forming smart industrial parks.

According to the Provincial People’s Committee Binh Thuan, The province’s smart tourism information portal has updated data of over 500 businesses. Deploy virtual reality technology to introduce famous tourist attractions of Binh Thuan, thereby creating an impression and attracting tourists to visit in reality. The province also uses QR codes to provide complete information to introduce famous tourist attractions of the province.

In 2023, the number of tourists coming to Binh Thuan will reach 8.35 million, an increase of 45.98% compared to 2022; Tourism revenue reached 22,300 billion VND, an increase of about 63%.

“In addition to infrastructure advantages, especially after the province officially put into operation the two expressways Phan Thiet-Dau Giay and Vinh Hao-Phan Thiet connecting Binh Thuan with Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces, the Changing numbers, promoting communication about tourism on digital platforms, providing utilities and information for tourists have also contributed to increasing the number of tourists coming to Binh Thuan in recent times”, Vice Chairman of Ninh Thuan province. Doan Anh Dung said.

2 billion transactions on the national data platform

According to the National Committee’s report, the national population database has connected with 18 ministries, branches, 63 provinces, cities and 4 businesses; Successfully synchronized over 268 million people’s information; receiving more than 1.5 billion requests for information verification (an increase of 213 million compared to 2023).

The national data sharing and integration platform has connected with 388 systems and databases of 95 agencies and units participating in the connection. On average, there are about 2.8 million transactions per day. The total number of transactions to date is about 2 billion transactions.

To date, the total number of databases in different industries and fields is 2,398, an increase of 311 (14.5%) compared to 2023. Vietnam Social Insurance and 43 localities issued lists and plans. providing open data, reaching a rate of 64%, an increase of 7% compared to 2023.

State agencies continue to exploit and effectively operate national databases in socio-economic management and administration. Connecting and sharing data continues to be promoted by ministries, branches and localities, exploiting the maximum value of data.

A typical example of success is the electronic data warehouse of individuals and organizations in Da Nang developed on the Digital Citizen platform, allowing each citizen to use online public services without having to re-declare or pay. Add documents if available on the Electronic Data Warehouse. To date, 94% of the city’s administrative procedures have been provided with full public services.

Regarding digital society, the Ministry of Public Security has issued over 86 million citizen identification cards with chips; Received over 74.85 million electronic identification records, activated over 53.62 million electronic identification accounts for people (reaching 71.63% of received records). The VNeID application has been integrated with 8 utility services and has had 29.3 million visits.

100% of medical examination and treatment facilities have non-cash payment services; 100% of medical training facilities pay tuition fees non-cash; About 64% of people receive social insurance and unemployment benefits in urban areas through personal accounts.

77% of adults have a payment account at a bank; Mobile money service has more than 8.2 million customers, an increase of 2.2 times over the same period in 2023 (5.8 million customers in rural, mountainous, remote and remote areas; accounting for 72% of customers using mobile money). use); 251,798 units accept the service.

(According to Ha Van – baochinhphu.vn)