Vietnam has recently made great strides in applying IT for public administrative activities. To date, 96.6 percent of ministries and sectors have established their own websites, all 63 provinces and cities have e-portals, and 83.6 percent of information and guidance related to government and central agency policies is posted on the internet.
However, the use of IT in government management should be promoted in the future to better serve the public and develop a proper, more efficient administration.
State management agencies area really the big potential clients for information technology (IT) firms. Therefore, every time when the clients “assign themes,” IT firms would gather their strength to satisfy the requirements of the “VIP clients.”
A special central state authority under Ministry of National Defence, GISC is responsible to secure state confidential information and data in context of national security. It estimated that about VND 250-300 billion (US$12-14.4 million) investment would be needed to supply these digital signatures.
The demand for entrusted electronic signatures (E-Signature)in state bodies has increased in recent years,said Nguyen Dang Dao, deputy head of GISC’s technical department.
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Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan, who is head of the National Steering Committee on Information and Communication Technology, asked relevant bodies to develop a common database from provincial to central levels to serve the State administration. He said this would provide the public with better and more comprehensive information.
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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