The Government of Vietnam requests early provision of online public services regarding housing and the real estate market
What is the current state of Scheme 06 implementation?
Recently, on February 23, 2023, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam directed the ongoing promotion of the Scheme for the development of data applications on population, identification, and electronic authentication to serve the national digital transformation for the period 2022 – 2025, with a vision to 2030 at ministries, central authorities, and local authorities in 2023 and subsequent years.
In Directive 05/CT-TTg in 2023, it is stated that it is to implement the Party and State's policy on developing information and telecommunications infrastructure, creating a foundation for the national digital transformation, and gradually developing the Digital Government of Vietnam, digital economy, and digital society.
The Scheme “development of data applications on population, identification, and electronic authentication to serve the national digital transformation for the period 2022 - 2025, with a vision to 2030” (Scheme 06) is an essential, breakthrough project to realize this strategy, generating numerous utilities and services, providing better and more effective support for people and businesses.
After one year of implementation, the Scheme has achieved initial positive results, laying the groundwork for carrying out tasks in subsequent years. The Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam highly appreciates and commends the active and decisive engagement of ministries, central authorities, and local authorities in implementing Scheme 06 over the past time.
However, the implementation process still faces several barriers and limitations that hinder the Scheme’s progress, such as:
(1) Many information systems and databases of ministries, central authorities, and local authorities have been invested in for a long time, but they remain fragmented, incomplete, lacking synchronization, and have not met information security and cybersecurity requirements. As a result, these systems and databases cannot perform digitalization, connectivity, sharing, integration, and data exploitation with the National Population Database for providing online public services...
(2) There is no appropriate approach, and the design of public services has yet to place people and businesses at the center;
(3) The IT application skills of officials are not proficient enough to guide people in performing online public services;
(4) The quality and effectiveness of providing and using online public services are still limited, not truly convenient for people and businesses. The number of people handling administrative procedures directly remains high (about 70%);
(5) The digitalization of records and results of administrative procedures at government levels is still slow, failing to meet requirements for connectivity and data sharing to support administrative procedures and public services. There is still the situation of “information monopoly” and departmental and sectoral interests, causing people to provide the same information and travel multiple times;
(6) In many places, the command and operation work is still conducted traditionally without innovation; handling work files on the network environment at some ministries, central authorities, and local authorities is not good. Communication for this work has not been given due attention and adequate investment to help change behavior and awareness among people and businesses;
(7) Ensuring information security and cybersecurity in many agencies and units has not been adequately considered and has not met the required demands;
(8) Some ministries, central authorities, and local authorities have not allocated funds promptly for implementing Scheme 06.
The Government of Vietnam requires the early provision of online public services regarding housing and the real estate market?
Prime Minister directs synchronized implementation of key solutions to promote Scheme 06?
In Directive 05/CT-TTg in 2023, to address the mentioned barriers and limitations and promote Scheme 06 in 2023 and subsequent years, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam requires ministries and central authorities, the People’s Committees of provinces, centrally-run cities to thoroughly understand and uniformly, promptly, effectively implement key tasks and solutions, specifically:
- Each Minister, head of equivalent agencies, agencies under the Government of Vietnam, and each Chairman of the People's Committee of provinces, centrally-run cities must exhibit determination and aggressively direct the implementation of the Scheme in their respective agencies and localities; report to the Communist Party Committees to propose the issuance of Resolutions, Directives directing the implementation of Scheme 06 for consistency in implementation, to be completed in March 2023.
- Ministries, central authorities, and local authorities must regard the implementation of Scheme 06 as a focal task, to be conducted regularly and continuously at all levels, sectors, and localities, based on engaging active participation from people and businesses.
The implementation must have focus and priority; easier tasks should be done first, difficult ones later; proceeding from low to high, from small to large, from simple to complex, to be carried out in a methodical, substantial, and effective manner, avoiding the situation of "a hundred flowers blooming," preventing overlaps and widespread investments, which are wasteful.
Restructure entire business processes of online public services toward convenience for people and businesses?
In Directive 05/CT-TTg in 2023, the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam requires ministries, central authorities, and local authorities to focus on reviewing, assessing, and restructuring the entire business processes of online public services provided on the National Public Service Portal towards convenience for people and businesses, ensuring the principle of placing people and businesses at the center, completed by September 2023; for 53 essential public services (in Scheme 06 and Decision 422/QD-TTg), to be completed by June 2023.
- Focus on reviewing and improving the process of receiving, guiding, and supporting people and businesses at One-Stop Service offices at all levels towards placing people and businesses at the center, as the subject, target, and motive for providing better quality services, to be completed by June 2023;
- Choose groups of administrative procedures directly related to people and businesses to focus on practical, convenient, prompt, and effective implementation; change the mindset from "doing for" to "support and guide" to enhance digital skills for people and businesses; care for and assist vulnerable groups (the elderly, disabled, etc.);
- Pay attention to propagating and guiding ethnic minorities and groups with limited IT proficiency and difficulties in performing administrative procedures and online public services, shifting the habit from using paper records to electronic records, gradually forming digital citizens and a digital society.
Require the early provision of online public services regarding housing and the real estate market?
This is one of the contents of Directive 05/CT-TTg in 2023 of the Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam, specifically:
The Prime Minister of the Government of Vietnam requires the Ministry of Construction to urgently complete the Information System on Housing and the Real Estate Market; connect and share with the National Land Database to serve effectively state management and handle administrative procedures for people and businesses, reduce manual inspections and monitoring; connect and share data with the National Population Database to clean and enrich data, ensuring compliance with the law.
The deadline for completion is June 2023.
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