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Accelerate Digital Transformation to Achieve 2025 Growth Targets

9 August, 2025

The Government Office has just issued Notification No. 408/TB-VPCP dated August 8, 2025, conveying the conclusions of the third meeting of the Government’s Steering Committee on Science, Technology, Innovation, Digital Transformation and Project 06.

The 3rd meeting to review the work in the first 6 months and deploy tasks for the last 6 months was held in late July – Photo: VGP

The meeting evaluated the results of the first 6 months and oriented the tasks for the last 6 months of 2025, emphasizing the need for acceleration, breakthrough, and bolder actions to meet practical requirements and contribute to the goal of achieving GDP growth of 8.3-8.5% this year.

According to the Steering Committee’s report, in the past time, the guidelines, policies, and implementation methods have been relatively synchronously implemented by ministries, branches, localities, and enterprises. There has been a positive change in the perception of digital transformation, more decisive actions, measurable results, and support for the smooth and effective operation of the apparatus from the central to local levels, contributing to promoting growth.

However, compared to practical requirements, the progress and scale of implementation have not yet met expectations. Many tasks are still slow, and there are still 75 overdue tasks. The institutions and policies to promote science, technology, and digital transformation are not yet complete, and the digital infrastructure is unevenly developed, especially in remote and mountainous areas. Information systems are not effectively connected and shared; the national database deployment is slow; resources are still lacking and weak, especially at the grassroots level. Administrative procedure reform has only achieved 39.51% of public services, much lower than the 80% target.

The identified reasons include insufficient political determination in some places, the lack of full promotion of the directing role of the head, unclear task assignment, lack of discipline, weak inter-sectoral coordination, limited data connection, and many new tasks that require research time.

Transition from administrative management to administrative service

The Steering Committee requested that ministries, branches, and localities raise their determination and take more drastic actions, focusing on key tasks and adhering to the principle of “6 Clears”, including clear personnel, tasks, time, responsibilities, products, and authority.

The goal is to operate a smooth and effective political system, shifting from administrative management to administrative service, with people and businesses as the center. The direction and administration must be associated with inspection and supervision, practicing what is being preached, and achieving substantial results and marked changes.

Complete data infrastructure to ensure smart governance

In the last 6 months of the year, the heads of ministries, branches, and localities must prioritize allocating resources to complete the assigned tasks early; promote the role of working groups to urge and remove difficulties; synchronously operate the local government at two levels; and complete the databases to ensure “right, sufficient, clean, live, unified, and shared” data.

Administrative reform must be carried out comprehensively, and information security and cyber security must be regularly inspected. Digital transformation projects must have specific and feasible targets and products, prioritizing the service of local government operations. At the same time, it is necessary to promote the training of digital capacity for officials, public employees, and people, and expand online training on the platform of “Digital Literacy”.

Promote administrative procedure reform, striving to only receive electronic dossiers

A series of specific tasks are set out, including the selection of a “chief architect” for digital transformation for each ministry and branch; reducing at least 30% of the time and cost of complying with administrative procedures; and eradicating the “red tape” situation at public administration service centers.

Localities must complete the provision of online public services at the communal level before August 15, 2025, and at the provincial level within 2025; towards only receiving dossiers in the electronic environment from October 1, 2025. Business processes must be modified to use integrated information on VNeID instead of hard copies, provide online results, and cut unnecessary printing costs.

Project 06: Complete critical databases

Regarding Project 06, ministries and branches must complete 45 overdue tasks and deploy 30 tasks in the last 6 months. Priority is given to completing databases on household registration, land, education, health, industry and trade, finance, internal affairs, etc., ensuring smooth connection with the national database on population.

The Ministry of Public Security will deploy the interconnection of prescription data from hospitals to pharmacies so that people can receive medicine at home, pilot from September 2025 and officially from October 2025. At the same time, it will study and build a “Citizen Cloud” integrated on the VNeID platform, creating a unified digital platform for people to perform online public services.

Legislating the pillars of digital transformation and promoting 5G infrastructure

The Ministry of Science and Technology is assigned to build, amend and supplement four laws related to digital transformation, intellectual property, high technology, and technology transfer, and submit them to the National Assembly at the 10th session. The Ministry will also take the lead in deploying the National Digital Architecture Framework, the strategy to attract talents, and the nationwide 5G coverage associated with the development of satellite Internet and the elimination of “signal blind spots.”

The Ministry of Home Affairs will propose to apply the KPI-based civil servant evaluation mechanism from January 1, 2026, and develop policies to attract at least 100 leading experts to work in the fields of science, technology, and innovation.

Mobilize social resources and strictly control counterfeit goods

Other ministries and branches also have specific tasks: The Ministry of Health will implement a digital solution to control fake food and medicine; the State Bank will deploy a credit package of VND 500,000 billion to support strategic infrastructure and digital technology; the Ministry of Construction, together with six major cities, will implement the Smart City Project this year.

The Ministry of Education and Training coordinates the mobilization of students to support people in accessing online public services at the grassroots level; community digital technology groups guide the implementation at the communal level, ensuring that all people can access and use digital platforms.

Tung Phong

– 20:43 08/08/2025