National online connection session from the Government headquarters to the People's Committee headquarters of provinces and centrally run cities.

Attending the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang, Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Committee on Digital Transformation, ministers, leaders of ministries, branches, members of the Committee; leaders of localities, corporations, and large enterprises in information technology.

In his opening speech, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that digital transformation has become an inevitable trend, an objective requirement and a strategic choice for many countries. In Vietnam, digital transformation has reached "every alley, every house, every person".

"Our current important tasks such as promoting growth, restructuring the economy, promoting old growth drivers, exploring new growth drivers, emerging industries... are all closely related to digital transformation," said the Prime Minister. In particular, Project 06 is identified as a key, important task and one of the "bright spots" and "good models" of national digital transformation.

In recent times, the Government and the Prime Minister have resolutely directed and synchronously deployed solutions to increasingly effectively and practically implement the national digital transformation; promote digital transformation in most areas; focus on building and perfecting institutions, mechanisms and policies to promote the development of digital government, digital economy, digital society and digital citizens.

At the same time, Project 06 was vigorously implemented from the central to grassroots levels, receiving the consensus, support and high appreciation from people and businesses; contributing to changing management methods and improving the quality and efficiency of citizen management; saving time and effort; creating an important foundation for deploying online public services.

The Prime Minister emphasized that in order to complete the goals of the National Digital Transformation Program and Project 06, there is still a lot of work to do; there are still some tasks that have been proposed but are behind schedule; there are tasks that are difficult to complete without strong, persistent, consistent, and synchronous direction from the Central to the grassroots levels.

To continue effectively implementing the national digital transformation task and implementing Project 06, in the coming time, the Prime Minister requested that delegates focus on discussing, analyzing, and evaluating frankly, clearly, objectively, and with specific data, the implementation of the 2024 Action Plan and the results achieved in the first 6 months of 2024.

At the same time, identify existing problems, limitations, weaknesses, obstacles, barriers, and bottlenecks, especially in terms of institutions, mechanisms, and policies; clearly indicate the contents that are behind schedule (under the responsibility of which ministries, branches, localities, and units), determine the causes, and draw lessons.

Along with that, share good experiences, valuable lessons, creative ways of leadership, direction and implementation (developing digital infrastructure; providing online public services; developing national databases, connecting and sharing information, forming big data; training and developing human resources; good models and ways of doing things of some ministries, branches and localities...) and clearly identify key tasks and breakthrough solutions in the coming time.

According to the Ministry of Information and Communications, national digital transformation in the first 6 months of the year has achieved many outstanding results.

Accordingly, online public services, the rate of online records (out of the total number of administrative procedure records) nationwide will reach 42% (17% by the end of 2023); ministries and branches will reach 61% (38% by the end of 2023); localities will reach 17% (9% by the end of 2023).

63/63 localities (an increase of 14 localities compared to the end of 2023) have issued policies to reduce, exempt, and charge fees for using online public services; 15/63 localities (an increase of 2 localities compared to the end of 2023) have issued policies to reduce time to encourage people to use online public services.

The digital economy in the first 6 months of the year is estimated to grow by 22.4% and the proportion of the digital economy in GDP is estimated at 18.3%. Revenue from the information technology sector (digital economy ICT) is estimated at 1,928,311 billion VND, up 26% over the same period in 2023.

Total sales on 5 online retail platforms in the first 6 months of 2024 reached over VND 97,000 billion, an increase of 80% over the same period in 2023. The rate of adults with payment accounts reached 87.08% (an increase of 9.67% compared to the end of 2023), exceeding the target set for 2025.

Piloting Mobile Money service, the total number of accumulated customers reached more than 8.8 million, of which 6.3 million customers are in rural, mountainous, remote and isolated areas, contributing to the Government's goal of "leaving no one behind" in the digital transformation process.

The number of Vietnamese digital technology enterprises increased by 8% over the same period. The development of digital technology enterprises reached 50,350 enterprises compared to the target of 48,000 enterprises (reaching a rate of 104.9%).

Regarding digital governance, for the first time in more than 20 years, monitoring and measuring online public services are done automatically and online; the administrative procedure settlement system is assessed for quality online.

Also in the past 6 months, for the first time, Vietnam measured the quality of mobile telecommunications and fixed broadband networks online using the Make in Vietnam tool.

Along with that, data sharing transactions between platforms and information systems via the National Data Integration and Sharing Platform in the first 6 months of the year increased sharply by 67% compared to the same period in 2023.

Regarding digital infrastructure, the whole country has about 687,000 more households using broadband fiber optic Internet compared to the end of 2023, raising the rate of households using broadband fiber optic Internet to 82.2% (an increase of 2.6% compared to the end of 2023 at 79.6%).

Nationwide, there are over 3.8 million more smartphone subscribers, raising the rate of mobile phone subscribers using smartphones to 84% (an increase of 3.2% compared to the end of 2023 at 80.8%).

Vietnam has one more modern data center, the largest in the country, of the Military Industry - Telecommunications Group (Viettel) with a capacity of 30 MW.

Vietnam's IPv6 conversion rate reaches 60% (up 1% compared to the end of 2023), ranking 8th globally (up 1 place compared to 2023).