Ho Chi Minh City’s digital transformation index jumped from third to second place last year, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications. The result is attributed to the city’s efforts to build a smart city by accelerating digital transformation and enhancing interaction with the people.
Da Kao Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, has about 25,000 people who live in 96 residential groups and 8 residential clusters. Since the ward applied digitization and implemented smart urban management, the headquarters of the Ward People’s Committee has no longer been crowded with people waiting for making administrative procedures or reporting violations of urban order. The number of people coming to the administrative agency has reduced by half.
National digital transformation is a heavy task requiring strong determination, great efforts, and drastic and effective actions, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told a recent meeting.
The PM’s instructions made at the conference reviewing national digital transformation in the first half of 2023 are summed up in a document released by the Government Office on August 1.
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Hanoi has made drastic changes from awareness to action at all levels in implementing digital transformation.
According to the municipal Department of Information and Communications, the capital city has stepped up digital transformation since 2021. The implementation of Resolution No.18-NQ/TU on digital transformation, building a smart Hanoi city by 2025 with a vision to 2030, issued by the municipal Party Committee on December 30, 2022, has created a breakthrough in this work.
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Deputy Defense Minister Senior Lieutenant General Le Huy Vinh, on July 27, chaired a conference to evaluate the development of e-government and digital transformation as well as the implementation of a project on developing the application of population database, e-identification and e-authentication for national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period with a vision to 2030 (Project No.06).
Over the past time, the tasks have been drastically implemented with many fruitful achievements. Troops’ awareness of the development of e-government and digital transformation as well as Project No.06 has been raised, while units in the whole military have actively built plans and issued resolutions to effectively perform these tasks.
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Ho Chi Minh City ranked second out of 63 provinces and cities in the country in terms of the 2022 digital transformation index (DTI), the Information and Communications Ministry has announced.
According to a report of the Ministry of Information and Communications, the digital economy contributed about 18.7% of the city's gross regional domestic product (GRDP) last year.
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