Vietnam moving towards building e-parliament
VOV.VN - Nguyen Duc Hai, vice chairman of the National Assembly (NA) and head of the steering committee for building and implementing the e-parliament project, chaired the third meeting of this committee on August 31 in Hanoi.
As part of his opening remarks, Hai stated that information technology application and digital transformation in all activities of the NA have produced encouraging results. Indeed, they have won high evaluation from legislators and the public, thereby providing a prerequisite for developing an e-parliament and working towards a digital parliament.
In order to achieve this the immediate duty is to finalise drafting the e-parliament project which is based on which focal tasks for developing an e-parliament and then a digital parliament will be carried out, he noted.
Nguyen Manh Hung, vice chairman of the NA Office, said the draft project has taken into account the context of international and domestic digital transformation, whilst being supplemented with some more implementation measures, including promoting the role of agencies and localities’ leaders in this regard.
Other participants stated the view that to develop an e-parliament, it is essential to overhaul relevant regulations in a bid to ensure favourable conditions for performing the task. In addition, building an e-parliament must take place in tandem with the building of an e-Government and digital Government under the national digital transformation programme.
They therefore underlined the need to select suitable technologies which can be applied and avoid the case that some contents of the project become technologically outdated as soon as the project is launched.
An e-parliament focuses on not only information technology to digitalise processes and procedures but also many other factors, such as manpower, infrastructure, and database. It should therefore provide an environment for the NA to interact with voters and people, including via cyberspace, in a bid to help the NA better fulfill its function of representation and enhance legislators’ sense of responsibility, they added.
Hai stated this is a major project requiring responsible engagement of relevant sides. He asked the Ministry of Information and Communications to offer official opinions about the draft and for the NA Office to select a consulting unit in line with regulations and be ready for implementation once the project is carried out.
