Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has emphasised the Government's stance that people and enterprises are the key players in the success of the country's digital transformation.
PM Chinh delivered remarks at an event marking the National Digital Transformation Day in Ha Noi on Monday.
The date of October 10 was designated National Digital Transformation Day by the PM last April.
PM Chinh, chairman of the National Committee for Digital Transformation, said together with green transition, digital transformation is an inevitable and objective trend.
Digital transformation could strengthen the country by creating breakthroughs in regulations, infrastructure, and human resources while promoting economic growth and allowing for better overall governance.
Viet Nam has reaped encouraging outcomes in digital transformation. Still, there remains much to be done, PM Chinh pointed out, noting that digital transformation must enable people and enterprises to benefit from public services and social utilities in a more convenient, fast, and effective manner.
In a National Digital Transformation Day message, the Government leader demanded attention be paid to perfecting mechanisms and policies to implement the transformation strategy across human and digital resources effectively.
He also ordered more administrative procedures to be handled online, improving the quality of online public services and pressing on with the plan to apply population data, e-identification, and e-authentication.
The PM also called on enterprises to further digitalise and cooperate with international partners.
He requested increasing communications to encourage State agencies, people, and enterprises to engage in digital transformation and further assist people in using online public services and digital services safely and effectively.
On the occasion, PM Chinh presented awards to ministries, sectors, localities, enterprises, and individuals with excellent digital transformation solutions.
Speaking at the opening of the National Digital Transformation Day event, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung said awareness is the first step to digital transformation.
Digital transformation is a long and comprehensive journey. However, digital transformation could only be successful if the people are put at the centre, said the minister.
Digital transformation was action. The key task was to bring people's activities to the digital environment through Make-in-Viet Nam digital platforms, said Hung. In addition, October is digital consumption month.
The Ministry of Information and Communications has directed the selection, evaluation and publication of 16 groups of digital platforms to serve people's needs.
A network of community digital technology groups has been established nationwide. As a result, more than 100,000 cadres, civil servants and employees in State agencies from the central to communal level have received basic training in digital transformation.
More than five million people can access and disseminate basic digital skills through a mass open online learning platform.
"Therefore, the day of national digital transformation is a day when the whole people, the whole nation, learn together and make efforts to act together," emphasised Minister Hung. — VNS