The Government Office has just issued Notice No. 171/TB-VPCP dated April 11, 2025 concluding the first meeting of the Government Steering Committee on science, technology development, innovation, digital transformation and Project 06.
Regarding specific tasks, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh assigned ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, and chairmen of People's Committees of provinces and cities to review and find specific and practical solutions to create strong breakthroughs to improve the effectiveness of administrative reform tasks.
Ministries and subjects complete databases on: Land, construction, insurance, finance, enterprises, employment, health, education; connect and authenticate with the National Population Database, to be completed in June 2025.
100% of airports, ports, and border gates apply biometric technology on the VneID platform, to be completed in the second quarter of 2025; complete the digitization of civil status data, land data... in the second quarter of 2025.
Speed up the process of building a documentless government, requiring all leaders, cadres, and civil servants of ministries, branches, and localities at all levels to process all work documents in the online environment and use digital signatures to resolve the work, to be completed before June 30, 2025.
Cut down on the component of documents for administrative procedures with document information integrated into electronic identification accounts, complete in the second quarter of 2025; promote the provision, improve the quality and efficiency of online public service provision associated with the arrangement of administrative units.
Notably, the Prime Minister requested to adjust the professional process, allowing the use of electronic documents integrated into electronic identification accounts equivalent to traditional documents when performing administrative procedures, without requiring citizens to present documents, have medical records, notarized documents, to be completed in April 2025.
The Ministry of Science and Technology shall preside over and urgently coordinate with relevant ministries and agencies to study and propose appropriate mechanisms to place orders and assign tasks to digital technology enterprises to develop virtual assistant software to support officials and civil servants performing public duties, supporting people in performing administrative procedures...
The Prime Minister assigned the Minister of Public Security to deploy solutions to put the National Data Center into operation on August 19, 2025; research and establish a National Data Innovation and Exploitation Center at the National Data Center in April 2025.
The Ministry of Public Security coordinates with relevant ministries and agencies to research, develop and deploy a number of core data technologies and products, including: National data coordination and processing platform; national data exchange; national decentralized identification application; national cryptocurrency exchange; high-performance computing center; national virtual assistant; civil data center.
The Ministry of Public Security shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Finance (Vietnam Social Insurance), the Government Office urgently build a centralized public service for 6 administrative procedures on the national public service portal, with the coordination and participation of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to operate and officially implement on August 19, 2025.
Previously, Lao Dong Newspaper published an article reflecting "There are documents that no longer require notarization" and the article "Ens need to reduce and eliminate unnecessary notarization".
Accordingly, although there has been an improvement, the practice of certification and notarization shows that the requirement for certification and notarization with many types of documents is no longer necessary. In the context of many shortcomings in certification and notarization activities, the authorities also pointed out a series of violations of this activity in recent times.
