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A high level steering committee led by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has been finalised to ensure the realisation of the government’s ambitious plan to modernise government administrative procedures and processes.

Other members of the steering committee include Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang, Minister of Justice Ha Hung Cuong, and Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son.

Read more: Vietnam to speed up path to e-government

"e-Services has become an inevitable trend in Vietnam and it will be continuously developed in the next ten years to solve administrative problems, improving service quality of state agencies and enterprises" said Tran Thanh Bao, Deputy General Director of FPT e-Customs Services (FCS), a member of FPT Information System.

In April, FPT IS unified three of its electronic services including Certificate Authority, e-Tax declaration and e-Customs declaration into one single package.

Read more: VN: FPT Corporation : 'e-Services will boom in the next 10 years'

Ministry of Justice (MOJ), Vietnam has recently revealed the project to digitise basic information of all citizens and include them in the national database on population and in national ID cards by late 2020.

This plan is a part of an overall scheme to simplify the government’s administrative procedures, personal papers and database related to population management during the 2013-2020 period, recently approved by the PM.

Read more: Vietnam to digitise national database

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung affirmed this in his opening speech at the 2013 Vietnam ICT Summit, which took place on June 20 in Hanoi.

The biggest event of the Vietnam information and communication industry this year attracted not only operators in this field, but also many officials and experts from other sectors. They came here to search for information, solutions and to get a better understanding of the ability to improve competitiveness for all sectors and all areas by information technology.

Read more: VN: IT is the shortest path to develop the country: PM

Da Nang City in Vietnam has recently launched 400 free public Wi-Fi hotspots across the city, started the pilot programme on digitising city maps, and deployed an electronic assessment system for civil servants. Reading a lot about these projects caused me to ponder….

As a Saigonese — as what Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh City are called, I cannot help but to compare the ICT developments between Da Nang — Vietnam’s fourth biggest city, and my home town, Ho Chi Minh City — the biggest city in terms of economic contribution.

Well, why does a more advanced city like Ho Chi Minh City decided not to cover its territory with free Wi-Fi, like Da Nang City? What could be causing this discrepancy, is it size, budget, or vision?

Read more: VN: Does size matter?

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