The proposal from southern-based authorities to the Posts and Telematics Ministry at a conference Friday to review the project in the south came after the program failed to make much progress.
As a result, hundreds of billions of dong went down the drain in its first five-year phase up to 2005.
At the conference, the southern departments also asked the ministry for more powers in managing the project, saying they had none at the moment.
Nguyen Thanh Hung, deputy minister, said his ministry hoped to address the shortcomings and that it planned to take the project away from people’s councils and assign it to the post and telematics departments.
The project is aimed at computerizing and standardizing administrative procedures across the nation by using common software.
When it is completed all provinces and cities would have a uniform socio-economic information system, administrative documents management, and a content management system.
Autor/Author: Reported by Mai Phuong – Translated by Ha Viet
Quelle/Source: Thanh Nien Daily,, 13.05.2006
