Seminar spotlights social networks in authorities-businesses dialogue
The usefulness of social networks in enhancing dialogue between administration and businesses was highlighted at a seminar in the northern province of Quang Ninh on November 2.
Chairman of the Quang Ninh People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Long addresses the seminar on November 2 (Photo: baoquangninh.com.vn)
Quang Ninh (VNA) – The usefulness of socialnetworks in enhancing dialogue between administration and businesses washighlighted at a seminar in the northern province of Quang Ninh on November 2.
The event was held by the provincial People’sCommittee and the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the support of socialnetworking giant Facebook. It attracted representatives of the Government’se-portal, the Ministry of Finance, Facebook, and 12 northern provinces andcities.
Chairman of the Quang Ninh People’s CommitteeNguyen Duc Long said that realising the importance of IT application ininstitutional reform and the steering of socio-economic activities, theprovince set up the Facebook fanpage DDCI QUANG NINH in order to contact peopleand businesses. This fanpage has attracted more than 5,500 followers and over100,000 likes and interactions since its creation just over a year ago.
Over the last three years, Quang Ninh hassustained fourth place among the 63 provinces and cities on the Vietnam ICTIndex, greatly helping to improve its business climate and competitiveness.
Long partly attributed Quang Ninh’s top positionin the country’s Provincial Competitiveness Index in 2017 to the opening of theDDCI QUANG NINH page, which has facilitated dialogue between provincial administrationand the public.
At the seminar, Noudhy Valdryno, arepresentative from Facebook’s Asia-Pacific division, affirmed the necessityand effectiveness of using this social network in boosting dialogue.
He noted that globally, there are about 2.2billion users active on a monthly basis and 1.4 billion daily users on Facebook.Around 378 million users visit the network on a daily basis in Southeast Asiaalone.
With such a big number of frequent users,through more open and friendly policies, e-governments can make use of thesocial network to win over the public’s support, he added.
Nguyen Viet Hung, Deputy Director of theDepartment of Financial Informatics and Statistics under the Ministry of Finance,said this ministry has stepped up IT application in its activities over thepast few years, and gained encouraging outcomes. It is also working to applynew technologies considered “core” to Industry 4.0 which will facilitate theministry’s dialogue with businesses.
At the seminar, participants discussed ways toutilise Facebook in this work, along with experiences in using social networksto boost the dialogue between authorities and enterprises, and the provision ofadministrative services. –VNA
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Chairman of the Quang Ninh People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Long addresses the seminar on November 2 (Photo: baoquangninh.com.vn) 
