Transparency of government activities
On the morning of November 15, Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council organized an explanation activity at the Standing Meeting of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council on promoting digital transformation to serve people and businesses in the city.
In conclusion, Comrade Nguyen Thi Le, Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee, Chairwoman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council emphasized that digital transformation is one of the strategic and urgent tasks, helping to create effective management, transparency, and dynamism. important force for social development. -economic development.
According to him, Ho Chi Minh City has made efforts to implement digital transformation programs in many fields, from building digital government, developing digital economy to building digital society.
However, the city’s digital transformation still has some shortcomings and major challenges such as: the implementation of some information technology application projects is still slow due to a complex and lengthy implementation process;
Furthermore, highly qualified human resources in the field of digital technology still cannot meet the needs of the city’s rapid and strong development.
The Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council called on Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee to urgently implement solutions, especially focusing on resolving problems in digital transformation processes, procedures and resources.
He called on departments, branches and localities to promote the application of AI and IoT technology in key areas such as environmental management, traffic, health, education and security and order.
Comrade Nguyen Thi Le emphasized that the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council continues to closely monitor the implementation of digital transformation programs, ensuring that the set goals are implemented on schedule and effectively.
Attract information technology human resources
During the explanation session, Vice Chairwoman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Tran Thi Dieu Thuy said that the digital transformation program has been implemented by Ho Chi Minh City for many years, and the city will invest more in 2024.
Comrade Tran Thi Dieu Thuy said that the above result is a great effort of Ho Chi Minh City in digital transformation.
Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee acknowledged the current reality that the city is having difficulty attracting human resources in the information technology industry.
According to comrade Tran Thi Dieu Thuy, currently there are many sources of information technology training, the demand for this human resource in the private sector is also very high, so there is competition with the public sector.
At the clarification session, delegates (delegates) of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council asked many questions related to training human resources for digital transformation;
Delegate Pham Dang Khoa, Head of District 3 Education and Training Department requested Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee to provide more information on the disbursement situation of digital transformation projects;
Delegates hope that Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee will strengthen management and clean up the network environment, ensuring security, network information and people’s rights.
Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communications Lam Dinh Thang said that the digital transformation program has had clear results, Ho Chi Minh City’s Digital Transformation Index (DTI) is continuously in the group of 5 provinces and cities. ranking street.
Ho Chi Minh City has implemented many solutions to raise awareness and digital transformation skills for people.
In addition, Ho Chi Minh City has organized centralized deployment of applications from departments, branches, and districts on 1,000 servers at the City Data Center and improved information security for these systems. .
Broadband fiber optic infrastructure has been deployed to the commune level, ensuring 100% of communes and wards in Ho Chi Minh City have broadband Internet access network and services.
Ho Chi Minh City has deployed a data integration and sharing system (Data Integration Platform – DIP), an unstructured data storage and sharing integration system (File Storage Platform – FSP) to automatically link facility (database) with the city’s integrated shared data warehouse.
Lieutenant Colonel Le Minh Hieu, Director of the Department of Telecommunications, Informatics and Cryptography (PH04), Ho Chi Minh City Police, answered questions about the work of ensuring information security for people, said that currently the agency The function is very planned. Secure information and detect intrusions immediately.
For more information about the issue of information security, Lieutenant Colonel Le Minh Hieu said that when people contact outside parties, they will accidentally reveal personal information such as full name, phone number, address… for reference to participate in promotions and prize draws.
The target audience is especially aimed at the elderly group because their ability to access information is limited compared to young people.
