Ba Ria – Vung Tau (VNA) – Vung Tau city authoritiesin the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau have taken on a project promotingthe digital transformation of the government, economy and society, according toTran Ba Viet, director of the municipal Department of Culture and Information.

Regarding digital government, all the People'sCommittees of wards and communes in the city have established steeringcommittees for digital transformation and have issued plans to perform keytasks in 2022.

All the ordinary administrative documents (exceptfor confidential documents) of specialized departments and divisions are to be sentand received via electronic platforms in accordance with regulations. Meanwhile,100 percent of administrative procedures are received and processed through theXgate one-stop software.

Online meetings between the municipal People's Committee with the People'sCommittees of 17 wards and communes are currently hosted on the Jabberapplication.

Attention has been paid to organising training courses for employees of departments,divisions and units on how to use and scan QR Codes to receive documents forpaperless meetings.

For the digital economy and society, from the end ofMarch this year, 4.0 market models have been deployed at some markets in thecity.  Local people have been also encouragedto trade products on e-commerce platforms postmart and voso.vn.

Parents of students in the city have been encouraged to pay tuition and schoolfees online, while students who are from 15 years old and above are advised toopen e-bank accounts. Locals have been urged to implement online payment forelectricity, water and telecommunication services.

The issuance of electronic toll collection (ETC) tags for cars to use e-tollcollection service has been also deployed.

According to head of the municipal EconomicDepartment Tran Thi Thu Huong, a 4.0 market model at Vung Tau and Thang Nhatmarkets has initially proven effective. Nearly 200 small traders at thesemarkets have registered to accept payment via Viettel Moneyand Viet QR applications of banks, equivalent to 39.5 percent of the total. Asmany as 393 transactions are implemented at all the payment points per day.

Tran Thi Xuan, Chief of the office of the municipal People's Council and People'sCommittee said that the city will popularise online public services at meetingsin residential areas, while continuing to implement "paperless meetings"in order to minimise the printing of documents, striving to achieve 100 percentof paperless meetings by the third quarter of 2022.

Digital transformation is also considered one of the key tasks of the city’s educationsector in the 2022 – 2023 academic year.

Director of the municipal Department of Education and Training said the sectoraims to realise 80 percent of the target of non-cash payments for tuition andother fees in schools, and providing bank accounts for students from 15 yearsold.

Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Tran DinhKhoa emphasized the importance of sufficient and transparent provision of informationand services to people by the most convenient methods. The acceptance andparticipation of people in the digital transformation process is important, he said, saying that these will contribute to improving the efficiency of the scheme.

Apart from upgrading the portal, the municipalauthority needs to standardize the entire process of online public service, hestressed.

He urged the authorities of all the 17 communes and wards to complete the setupof their own websites by December 2022./.