VietNamNet Bridge - Analysts commented that IT firms will have too many jobs as the government’s Resolution 36 on e-government has been released. However, small firms fear they may not get the jobs.

 

 

Nguyen The Trung, director of DTT Company

The government in late October released Resolution No 36 on building e-government, which says that by 2016, all central branches and ministries must have public services provided online at the third level, while drastic measures must be taken to prepare for fourth-level public services.

Commenting about the importance of the resolution, deputy chair of the government office Le Manh Ha said this was the first time the government released a resolution on e-government, though a lot of IT development programs had been set before.

However, some points of the resolution remain unclear for IT firms. According to Nguyen Trung Chinh, CMC’s CEO, the resolution says big IT firms, especially state-owned ones, need to join forces with small and medium IT firms and build up and operate an information system that serves management and provides online public services.

Big IT firms, especially state-owned ones, need to join forces with small and medium IT firms and build up and operate an information system that serves management and provides online public services.

Chinh said that big IT firms’ and ‘small and medium IT firms’ were not defined.

Vu The Binh, CEO of NetNam, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has instructed ‘big IT firms’ to create favorable conditions for ‘small firms’. 

"However, we still have to wait for ‘big state-owned firms’ thinking of cooperation,” Binh said.

On this issue, Nguyen The Trung, director of DTT, said he does not think ‘big IT firms’, especially state-owned ones, would ‘unite with small & medium enterprises’. He fears the big IT firms would scramble for jobs with small firms.

Also according to Trung, when DTT was providing fourth-level public service for the Ministry of Health, Viettel jumped on the bandwagon and ousted DTT.

Viettel, a big player in the telecom market, is a military telecom group owned by the state.

“We are patriots, and therefore, we want to join the e-government program. However, as the big telecom player has jumped into the field, we may have to go sell pho (pho is a Vietnamese traditional dish – reporter),” Trung said.

Trung also showed concern about the lack of transparency in auctioning. Under current regulations, ministers, the chair of provinces and cities can choose service providers instead of finding providers through auctions.

“An investor is negotiating with us on buying DTT’s shares. But they said they were not interested in e-commerce services,” Trung said.

“The investor said e-commerce service is a risky business sector, because ministers and provinces’ chairs have the right to determine service providers,” he said. “The investor asked if anyone of us is the son of ministers and provinces’ chairs."

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