According to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), over 644,000 payment transactions with a total value of more than VND 279 billion (over US$ 11.8 million) were processed through the National Public Service Portal in January. Moving national services online is beneficial for many reasons, and the national portal is the most effective channel to digitise administrative procedures.
Over 338,000 accounts have been registered, and more than 7.2 million records were synchronised with the portal in the month. Since its debut in December 2019, the portal has provided 4,377 public services online with over 4.3 million registered accounts. The national public service portal provides 14 groups of online payment services, with eight for people and the rest for businesses.
As per data from MIC, the portal has so far attracted over 1.1 billion visits and processed over 8.5 million records online and over 4.6 million online payment transactions worth over VND 3.8 trillion (US$ 161 million). To improve the business environment and national competitiveness in 2023, the government requested the ministries, sectors, and localities to complete national databases and effectively implement the project on developing the application of population database, e-identification, and e-authentication for national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period.
Last month, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) held a ceremony to connect the land database with the National Population Database and sign the regulation on work coordination with the Ministry of Public Security.
The MoNRE Minister, Tran Hong Ha, explained that the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 06, approving a scheme to develop applications for a population database, e-identification, and e-authentication. This would support national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period with a vision for 2030 (Project 06). Under the scheme, apart from the database and applications, citizen ID cards with electronic chips will serve administrative procedures and online public services supply, socio-economic expansion, and digital citizens development.
As OpenGov Asia reported, after Project 06 was approved, MoNRE set up a working group and issued a plan to implement the project, the Director of the Department of Information Technology and Data on Natural Resources and Environment, Le Phu Ha, stated. As a result, 56 out of 63 provinces and cities were connected to the databases of 316 out of 705 district-level units, and 4,076 out of 10,599 commune-level units with more than 24 million land plots.
Connecting the land database with the national population database has achieved modest initial results, as per reports. It is expected to be the foundation of a fundamental shift in the way people and organisations operate in the digital environment.
The move will better serve the country and concretise the national digital transformation, towards building a digital government, economy, and society. The use of information technology in state governance will bring about profound changes in every public administration service and procedure and transform the thinking of people in leadership roles.