Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chairs the National Conference on Electronic Government.

In order to speed up the development of e-Government, Prime Minister Phuc has assigned Deputy Prime Ministers, ministries, sectors and localities to concentrate on key tasks, including the completion of the Public Service Portal.

Accordingly, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh is to direct the Ministry of National Defence to accelerate the establishment of the national citizen database.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam is to direct, consider and make decisions on issues and regular work of the National Committee on Electronic Government, and directly instruct the comprehensive operation of the Committee Chairman’s Working Group.

Ministries, sectors and localities must seriously carry out assigned tasks per the Government’s instruction in Resolution No 17/NQ-CP and the National Committee on Electronic Government’s Action Plan from the second half of 2019 onwards.

It is urgent to build and complete the Public Service Portal, and the ministry- and province-level electronic one-stop information systems, ensuring they follow their assigned functions and connect and integrate with the National Public Service Portal. It is essential to soon issue management and operation regulations for the systems. Concurrently, it is necessary to review the implementation of administrative procedures to provide electronic public services at levels 3 and 4 as approved by the Prime Minister for the 2017-19 period. It should prioritise essential public services and upgrade quality of existing services in a user-friendly manner. It should proactively study solutions, digitise papers and standardise the database of administrative procedures of ministries, sectors and localities on the basis of the National Database on Administrative Procedures.

The Government Office strictly performs its assigned duties and functions, not the junctions of the Ministry of Information and Communications. All resources should be mobilised to build the National Service Portal and put it into operation in November, 2019; and proposals should be submitted to the Government to consider and promulgate a decree on the implementation of administrative procedures on the electronic environment in December 2019./.