On the afternoon of November 29, the launching ceremony of the Essential Electronic Books and Newspapers Platform serving the goal and task of reducing information poverty took place in Hanoi.
The ceremony was attended by Bui Hoang Phuong - Deputy Minister of Information and Communications; Mr. Pham Minh Tuan - Chairman of the Vietnam Publishing Association; Mr. Nguyen Nguyen - Director of the Department of Publishing, Printing and Distribution; Mr. Luu Dinh Phuc - Director of the Department of Press; Mr. Tran Chi Dat - Director of the Information and Communications Publishing House; leaders of agencies and units under the Ministry of Information and Communications; representatives of leaders of publishing houses, leaders of press agencies...
Speaking at the launch ceremony, Mr. Tran Chi Dat said that the platform was built with many useful features and tools: "The platform has outstanding features such as: posting and managing books and e-newspapers to serve readers; there are e-book making tools that are free to use, decentralized for publishers to design and edit themselves, and press agencies to present e-newspapers according to different types of journalism.
In addition, the reading tool has many advanced features to help readers have the best experiences such as bookmarking pages, highlighting text, taking notes, increasing and decreasing font size, and day/night reading mode.
Pursuant to Resolution No. 24/2021/QH15 dated July 28, 2021 of the 15th National Assembly and Decision No. 90/QD-TTg dated January 18, 2022 of the Prime Minister approving the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the 2021-2025 period, including the Sub-project on Information Poverty Reduction, the Ministry of Information and Communications has developed communication activities on information poverty reduction.
In particular, the project of the Platform for providing essential electronic books and newspapers (National Book and Newspaper Platform) was born to help people, especially the poor, easily access State policies, as well as raise awareness and skills to apply knowledge to life and production.
Thereby, the project promotes the effectiveness of poverty reduction programs and projects and meets people's need for information access, especially in remote and extremely disadvantaged areas.
The National Book and Newspaper Platform with the domain names sachdientu.vn and ebook.gov.vn was built and launched, marking a new step forward in realizing the goal of reducing information poverty and developing a reading culture, promoting national digital transformation.
The Information and Communications Publishing House is the unit assigned by the Ministry of Information and Communications to preside over the construction, management and operation, with the coordination and support of the Department of Publishing, Printing and Distribution and the Press Department.
The National Books and Newspapers Platform is built with an Access Portal and a reading App on mobile devices (IOS and Android operating systems, called National Books and Newspapers) to read e-books and e-newspapers.
The access portal is divided into two subsystems to post e-books and e-newspapers separately. E-books are arranged according to each program/project for readers to easily follow and read. E-newspapers are arranged in order of press agencies.
To protect digital copyright, the Platform has features to prevent downloading, copying of e-book content, and printing of content from e-books...
Publishers, press and television agencies participating in publishing books and newspapers under the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction and other programs using the state budget will be decentralized and provided with administrative accounts to create e-books and e-newspapers and proactively post them on the Platform to best serve readers.
Currently, the platform has more than 3,600 publications, including 202 e-books (including multimedia books, audiobooks and regular e-books) and 3,485 e-articles, in the forms of Infographic, Mega Story and video.
The platform is built and operated not only to serve the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the 2021-2025 period, but also to create an ecosystem, becoming a platform for publishing and distributing e-books, providing content and press information for other programs and projects chaired by the Ministry of Information and Communications.
Closing the ceremony, Mr. Bui Hoang Phuong - Deputy Minister of Information and Communications requested publishing and press agencies and units to increase the number of books and publications, diversify types such as audiobooks, multimedia books; press agencies promote publications with full types of journalism to serve the needs of the people.
Putting the e-book and e-newspaper platform into operation and exploitation will contribute to promoting digital transformation in the field of journalism and publishing, and is an essential information channel for people to access, read and experience e-books and newspapers...
In particular, the Platform will become a repository of books and electronic newspapers serving the state management of press and publishing in particular and the information and propaganda activities of the Party and State in general.
