Long An attaches importance to human resources in digital transformation: official
The Mekong Delta province of Long An is paying attention to human resources in digital transformation, said Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Pham Tan Hoa on February 17 while chairing a conference on results of the digital government building in 2021 and a plan for digital transformation in 2022.
Long An (VNA) – The Mekong Delta province of Long An is payingattention to human resources in digital transformation, said Vice Chairman ofthe provincial People’s Committee Pham Tan Hoa on February 17 while chairing a conferenceon results of the digital government building in 2021 and a plan for digitaltransformation in 2022.
The draft plan on digital transformation in Long An in 2022aims at transforming the state of e-government to digital government to leaddigital transformation in the locality.
It will also provide open data, enhance interaction betweenthe administration and people and businesses through the use of a shared database, anopen data portal, on a smart urban monitoring and administration centre. Attentionwill be paid to promoting the development of digital economy and e-commerce, andinitially forming a digital social platform in the province.
According to a report by the steering committee for digitaltransformation in Long An, the province is currently one of the leadinglocalities in implementing and exploiting connection and data sharing servicesprovided by ministries and sectors. Last year, the province has over 133,000 dossierssubmitted online, four times higher than that in 2020.
The public administrative centre of Long An province (Source: dangcongsan.vn)
However, digital transformation in Long An is still limited.The status of processing records on one-stop software is not synchronised withpaper records, leading to inaccurate information and statistics. Websites of severaldepartments, sectors and district People's Committees provide incompleteinformation as regulated, while IT human resources in state agencies are stillinadequate.
Hoa asked departments, sectors and localities to pay attentionto the selection of human resources for the public administration sector, andhave a change in awareness of digital transformation from leaders to staffs.
Building a digital government is not the sole task of theDepartment of Information and Communications, but a common task of eachdepartment, sector and locality, he noted, asking localities to determine thespecific roadmap of tasks to be carried out in 2022./.
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Illustrative image (Source: mic.gov.vn) 
The public administrative centre of Long An province (Source: dangcongsan.vn) 
