Speaking at the workshop as opening keynote, Dr Nguyen Minh Hong (pictured), Vice Minister, MIC stressed the importance of e-government development in Vietnamese public sector agencies, and highlighted information security as the primary concern.
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More than half of the systems cannot record attacks
Vu Quoc Khanh, Director of VNCERT (the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team) said at a workshop on building up information security policies in developing e-government held on May 25, that the budget for information security solutions just amounts to a small proportion in the agencies’ total budget for the information technology application program.
At FutureGov Forum Vietnam 2012, held last week in Hanoi, senior government IT decision makers shared their different perspectives about the government cloud, and how ready Vietnam was for such centralised infrastrucutre.
Vu Duy Loi, Director of the Information Technology Centre under the Party Central Committee said that it is too soon to apply government cloud in Vietnam, emphasising that it is necessary to re-organise the technical infrastructure first.
All ministries and relevant government agencies and the people’s committees of provinces and cities nationwide have been requested to use email to exchange documents such as invitations, reports, announcements and other official papers.
The PM also asked for the digitisation of archived documents and material to help civil servants search for and deal with information via the internet.
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Government cloud (G-cloud) taking shape
The neighboring governments all have got ready for G-cloud, which had prompted Vietnam to think about this as well. However, there would be a lot of things Vietnamese agencies and service providers need to do to turn this true in Vietnam.
Nantawan Wongkachonkitti, Information Technology Director of the Thai E-government Department, said at FutureGov Vietnam forum held recently that the Thai government has decided to deploy cloud computing applications in a trial basis in order to cut down the expenses on technologies in building e-governmetn.