Position and Role of the National Data Center: How is the Implementation Task of the National Data Center Project?
Position and Role of the National Data Center
Based on Clause II, Article 1 of Resolution 175/ND-CP 2023, the position and role of the National Data Center are stipulated as follows:
- Position:
The National Data Center is a data center established, managed, exploited, and operated by the Government of Vietnam; it integrates, synchronizes, stores, shares, analyzes, exploits, and coordinates data from state agencies in accordance with the law to form a repository of human-related data and a comprehensive data repository from national databases.
Data at the National Data Center is a core foundation providing data-related services, supporting policy-making, fostering development, building a digital government, digital society, and digital economy, ensuring national defense and security. It also provides IT infrastructure for political-social organizations, national database systems, and agencies requiring infrastructure use for exploitation, operation, efficiency enhancement, and information safety and security assurance.
- Role of the National Data Center:
+ Integrate, synchronize, store, exploit, share, analyze, and coordinate all comprehensive data from national databases and human-related data (including Vietnamese citizens and individuals involved in socio-economic activities in Vietnam) as per the law to create a human-related data repository.
Human-related data includes digitized information associated with people such as citizen data, insurance, health and social security, education and training, officials and public employees, ID, civil status, financial activities, and other activities from national databases, databases of various ministries, central authorities and local authorities, and other databases.
+ Use the collected and synchronized data to simplify administrative procedures, improve state agency services to citizens and enterprises. Additionally, conduct in-depth analyses to support the Government of Vietnam in state management; devise welfare policies related to insurance, health, education, etc., contributing to societal development and progress.
+ Conduct in-depth data analyses ensuring support for the development of policies, plans, and national development strategies. At the same time, facilitate the development of new product and service offerings based on data exploitation from common and open data repositories, contributing to socio-economic development.
+ Consolidate modern, synchronized technologies and solutions ensuring security and safety to provide IT infrastructure for Communist Party agencies, the National Assembly, state agencies, and political-social organizations as needed.
+ International exchange and connection to share information, research to build and implement national development strategies, and provide a foundation for research, support, exploitation, and development of national science and technology.
Position and Role of the National Data Center? How to Implement the National Data Center Scheme?
Which entities can use the services of the National Data Center?
Based on Clause IV, Article 1 of Resolution 175/ND-CP 2023, the entities eligible to use the services of the National Data Center include:
- For ministries, branches, localities, political-social organizations: Systems using site infrastructure, IT infrastructure in the shared area of the National Data Center, including:
+ Shared data repositories, open data repositories synchronized from the comprehensive data warehouse in the dedicated area.
+ National database systems.
+ Systems of agencies, organizations under the Communist Party, the National Assembly, political-social organizations.
+ Systems of agencies, units, organizations under state agencies requesting the use of site infrastructure, IT infrastructure at the National Data Center.
- For citizens and enterprises:
Citizens and enterprises providing and exploiting their information data and data in the open data repository in the shared area of the National Data Center according to the law.
How to Implement the National Data Center Scheme?
Based on Clause V, Article 1 of Resolution 175/ND-CP 2023, the tasks for implementing the National Data Center scheme are stipulated as follows:
- On establishing and completing the legal framework:
+ Review legal documents
Review, aggregate, evaluate, propose amendments to laws related to national databases, databases of ministries, central authorities and local authorities.
++ Lead unit: Ministry of Public Security.
++ Implementation period: In 2023, 2024.
+ Amend and supplement Decree 01/2018/ND-CP of the Government of Vietnam stipulating the functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structure of the Ministry of Public Security to include the National Data Center as a unit equivalent to a Department under the Ministry of Public Security.
++ Lead unit: Ministry of Public Security.
++ Completion period: In 2024.
+ Consult the Prime Minister on approving the Information and Communication Infrastructure Plan for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2050.
++ Lead unit: Ministry of Information and Communications.
++ Implementation period: Q4 2023.
+ Consult the Government of Vietnam on issuing a Decree specifying the list of national databases, the construction, updating, maintenance, and exploitation, usage of national databases.
++ Lead unit: Ministry of Information and Communications.
++ Implementation period: Q4 2023.
- On building, operating the National Data Center:
+ Construct operational infrastructure for the National Data Center meeting technical standards and regulations.
++ Lead unit: Ministry of Public Security.
++ Implementation period: According to the deployment schedule of the Scheme, for National Data Center No. 1 to be completed in 2025.
+ Complete the IT system of the National Data Center, including building and implementing the Cloud Computing Platform; Comprehensive Data Warehouse; Data Analysis System for management; Sector-specific Data Service System and Specialized Data Management System.
++ Lead unit: Ministry of Public Security.
++ Implementation period: According to the deployment schedule of the Scheme, for National Data Center No. 1 to be completed before 2025.
+ Ensure security and safety of information during the construction, implementation, management, and operation of the system.
++ Lead unit: Ministry of Public Security.
++ Implementation period: Continuous.
+ Transfer information systems from ministries, central authorities and local authorities to the National Data Center.
++ Lead unit: Ministry, branch, locality managing the national database, database.
++ Implementation period: According to the deployment schedule of the Scheme.
+ Integrate, synchronize data from national databases, databases of ministries, branches, localities to the National Data Center.
++ Lead unit: Ministry, branch, locality managing the national database, database.
++ Implementation period: According to the deployment schedule of the Scheme.
- On ensuring conditions for managing, operating the National Data Center:
+ Formulate the organizational model, functions, tasks, and allocate personnel for the unit equivalent to a Department under the Ministry of Public Security to manage and operate the National Data Center.
++ Lead unit: Ministry of Public Security.
++ Completion period: In 2024.
+ Training, guiding, ensuring human resources to serve the management and operation of the National Data Center.
++ Lead unit: Ministry of Public Security.
++ Implementation period: According to the deployment schedule of the Scheme.
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