Accordingly, the country plans to have about 60 per cent of its large enterprises and 80 per cent of its small- and medium-sized businesses conducting business-to-business (B2B) transactions online, as well as 10 per cent of all local households participating in business-to-customer (B2C) and customer-to-customer (C2C) transactions. The targets in the final government decision are lower than those in the draft, having been adjusted to more feasible goals. The government also decided to only generally develop business-to-government (B2G) facilities, stepping back from the previous target of getting 30 per cent of all B2G transactions online by 2010. Government purchase tenders will have to be posted publicly on the websites of state agencies. Nguyen Thanh Hung, director of the Department of E-commerce under the Ministry of Trade (MoT), said the plan required more responsibility from agencies to post their purchase tenders on their websites. Other legal documents, such as the Law on Tenders, also regulates the information agencies post on their websites.
“There is an indispensable trend to post online information on government purchase tenders, along with the government’s plan to develop e-government and administration reforms,” Hung said.
The plan should involve about 20 ministries and agencies, including the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI), which will take charge of online government purchase tenders, and the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), which will conduct education and training in e-commerce.
Hung said MoT leaders will hold talks with other ministries and agencies late next month to outline a detailed e-commerce plan for each ministry and agency. The MPI may build a website specifically for government purchase tenders. “Co-operation among agencies and ministries is still difficult, while it is easy for enterprises to develop e-commerce,” Hung said.
The plans call for Vietnam to issue the Cyber Law, Commerce Law, Civil Code and legal documents on cyber data by 2006, and to issue other legal documents on disputes, customer protection, intellectual property, crime prevention and tax issues by 2007. Six small programmes on education and training, compiling legal documents, technology development, public service offerings and international cooperation will also be held.
The MoET will add e-commerce as a subject in local education and training systems next year. It will also conduct e-commerce training courses for state staff.
The MoT’s first e-commerce website at www.ecvn.gov.vn was launched a month ago and is said to have lured a large number of local enterprises. In addition to its 300 official member firms, during the past two weeks the number of firms that registered to be free members increased by 100, according to the Department of E-commerce.
“The numbers demonstrate the interest from firms in all sectors,” Hung said. The two largest B2B websites are www.vnemart.com.vn, developed by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and www.vnet.com.vn by Vnet Joint Stock company. Of those, the nemart site has more than 1,300 enterprises from 10 industries.
Quelle: Vietnam Economic Times, 29.09.2005
