At the workshop, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Phuc, Vice Head of the Communication and Information Strategy Institute, said that 95% of ministries, sectors and provinces have their own websites. But most of the websites only provide basic information about the owners.
Online public services are very poor and information sharing among state organs is limited. IT application in the service of citizens includes four stages and at this moment, it is in the first stage.
Surveys of IT application in state agencies conducted in 2006 at 21 provinces, cities and some ministries also testify to this fact.
Up to 99.6% of state organs use computers but only 51% of state employees regularly use computers.
Internet use at state agencies is 76% and 48% regularly surf the Internet. Some 44% of state organisations have specialised IT departments and 21% have IT managers.
Last year two laws on IT were issued, the Law on Electronic Transaction and Law on IT. Many guidance decrees have been promulgated as well. However, the by-law document system on IT is still incomplete.
The lack of a mechanism to supervise and speed up the implementation of IT application projects led to the failure of 13/14 key projects in the 2003-2006 period.
Dr. Phuc reported that under the draft programme on IT application in state organs from 2007-2010, 50% of documents of ministries and provinces must be online; 100% of ministries, government agencies and provinces must have websites; provinces must supply at least three online public services and it is five for cities, and 10 for Hanoi and HCM City.
Do Xuan Tho, Chairman of the Vietnam Information Processing Association, said that the above goals were feasible as state agencies were aware of IT application as part of the road to e-government and IT application must be connected with administrative reform.
Quelle/Source: VietNamNet Bridge, 26.10.2007
