The 2-day event will focus on the deployment plan of ICT application to follow e-Government implementation, overview of ICT application for state financial management including taxation, customs and securities; and technology solutions to finance sector.
He answered questions such as: What should the ministry do to develop information and communications into something that contributes largely to the country’s GDP, and to the formation and development of an intellectual economy?
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The Vietnam on World IT map 2008 report by the Ho Chi Minh City Computer Association last week said the country has made remarkably improvements in United Nations Public Administration Network or the UNPAN’s e-government index.
Vietnam’s 91st ranking in the 2008 e-government index is 16 grades higher than previous years. Of which, the Vietnam’s Web Measure index was 0.4448, higher than 0.2231 of 2005 and its telecommunications infrastructure index was 0.1081 compared to 0.0489 in 2005.
A report shows almost 200 communes throughout the country still don’t have public Internet service spots and more than 600 places still use dial-up systems instead of broadband.
The scheme, considered the replacement for the now discredited Project 112, comprises two phases: 2008 and 2009-2010, the ministry said.
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