Ministry speeds up provision of online conveniences, services
The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is accelerating the granting of electronic identification accounts and the provision of online conveniences, part of common efforts to promote national digital transformation.
A police officer collects a citizen's fingerprints to serve ID card production. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is accelerating thegranting of electronic identification accounts and the provision of online conveniences,part of common efforts to promote national digital transformation.
Asof October 13, the e-identification system had granted 10.5 million accounts,including 115,000 registered online and 10.4 million others at police agencies,according to the MPS’s Police Department for Administrative Management ofSocial Order.
In the recent past, the MPS has giventhe Prime Minister advice on the implementation of a project on developing theapplication of population data, e-identification, and e-authentication to servenational digital transformation in the 2022 - 2025 period, with a vision to2030 (Project 06).
So far,authorities have provided six online conveniences for citizens, namely usinge-identification accounts to handle public services, using identify cards and theVNeID app to replace social insurance cards, using identify cards to replaceATM cards, credit rating to serve unsecured loan supply, connecting with verifiede-contracts to serve tax collection, and purifying information about bank andmobile accounts.
The department said as the Government’sstanding body for the Project 06 implementation, the MPS will supply moreservices and conveniences in 2023, including using VNeID in health care,education, e-commerce, e-contracts, market surveillance, and tax management.
From now to the end of 2022, the MPSwill make all the 227 online public services available so that people can haveadministrative procedures handled online.
In particular, it is working with relevantagencies to supply birth and death registration services, along with 28 otherson the national public service portal, in October.
In the time ahead, authorities will alsocarry out ballot and opinion collection on the population data and VNeID apps,the department noted./.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 9 chaired a national virtual conference to review six months of implementing a project on developing the application of population database, e-identification, and e-authentication for the national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period with a vision to 2030 (Project 06).
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A police officer collects a citizen's fingerprints to serve ID card production. (Photo: VNA) 
