From now until 2025, the northern province of Bac Giang will pay more attention to developing a digital society and improving the efficiency of digital transformation, said Director of the provincial Department of Information and Communications Tran Minh Chieu.
From now until 2025, the northern province of Bac Giang will pay more attention to developing a digital society. (Photo: VNA)
Bac Giang (VNA) – ✤From now until 2025, the northern province of Bac Giang will pay more attention to developing a digital society and improving the efficiency of digital transformation, said Director of the provincial Department of Information and Communications Tran Minh Chieu.
The official said the locality will work to ensure a safe and reliable digital environment for the community by devising digital safety mechanisms and policies, and providing information about digital environment safety for the public.
Besides, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are expected to help businesspeople and residents stay updated on digital technology and transformation, with free Wifi services will be available at 100 sites at tourist destinations, hospitals and bus stations.
Specifically, in 2024 and 2025, Bac Giang will launch digital services, covering administrative procedures, healthcare, education, transport, real estate and employment, and other fields, targeting public satisfaction.
Notably, residents can participate in and supervise the building and enforcement of policies and laws, and decision making of state agencies, and receive support in digital transformation through an artificial intelligence (AI) centre.
Efforts will be made to ensure the entire coverage of the fiber optic cable system to the communal level, accelerate the installation of Internet and electronic devices throughout the province, and facilitate cashless payments by residents and enterprises.
Bac Giang will work to ensure a safe and reliable digital environment. (Photo: VNA)
Through smart phones, Bac Giang aims to promote the popularisation of policies and laws, raise public awareness of gender issues and human rights, and matters regarding child and consanguineous marriage among ethnic minorities, and provide career consultations for them.
Community digital technology groups have been set up in all of the 209 communes, wards and towns, and all of the 2,128 villages and residential areas in the province, with more than 17,000 members.
The groups have helped local residents access online administrative services, and other digital services in health care and education, and other spheres, and activate their electronic identification accounts.
The standing board of the municipal youth union has coordinated with the city centre for culture, information and sports in releasing a digital map of historical and cultural relic sites in Bac Giang city.
The provincial youth union is also in charge of running the digital tourism website: dulichso.bacgiang.gov.vn.
Chieu said last year, Bac Giang continued paying attention to developing human resources for digital transformation, with the organisation of 66 training and refresher courses on digital transformation for civil servants and public employees of state agencies.
In particular, those courses equipped members of women’s unions at the grassroots level with digital skills, improved the awareness of digital transformation among culture workers, and gave guidance on the use of digital certificates and signatures for the staff of the education - training and health sectors.
The personnel of the single-window divisions of communes and towns were given with instructions in the use of online public services and the digitisation of papers. Socio-political organisations at the communal level were trained in using document management software and administering via the internet, Chieu elaborated.
Earlier, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Mai Son said from now to 2025, the province will press on with developing human resources to serve digital transformation.
The provincial Department of Information and Communications will enhance efforts to carry on training human resources for digital transformation in Bac Giang towards 2030.
Training courses on digital transformation, including information safety and leadership skills, will be held for leaders of state agencies from the provincial to communal levels. Advanced refresher courses on new technologies, digital transformation, information system building, and information safety will also be organised for information technology personnel of state agencies./.
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