Vietnam: 10 contents for investment in information technology application in state agencies' operations

According to Article 23 of Decree No. 64/2007/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, funds for investment in information technology application in state agencies' operations are allocated from the state budget (funds for development investment and regular expenditures) and other lawful sources. Investment contents must comply with Clause 1, Article 63 of the Law on Information Technology of Vietnam, covering:

1. Building, maintaining and upgrading technical infrastructure;

2. Building, procuring, maintaining and upgrading software;

3. Building, updating, maintaining and duplicating databases and management information systems;

4. Integrating systems;

5. Building, maintaining and upgrading technical and operational systems to assure information safety;

6. Building and maintaining websites;

7. Providing and maintaining public administrative services in the network environment;

8. Elaborating and supplementing regulations and rules on management, exploitation and maintenance of information systems;

9. Training and retraining of cadres, public servants and employees in the skills of applying information technology to their work; and full-time information technology staffs;

10. Other investments in information technology application in state agencies' operations.

The Ministry ofFinance shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Post and Telematics and concerned agencies in, setting limits of non-business expenditures for information technology application in state agencies.

View more details at Decree No. 64/2007/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from May 18, 2007.

Ty Na

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