As many as 117 State agencies, including 34 ministries, 63 provinces and cities, and 20 state-owned corporations saved more than VND84,635 billion, including VND50,628 billion for the state budget last year.

Administrative procedures conducted online have the same legal validity as other forms, according to the Prime Minister’s Decree No 45/2020/ND-CP.

VietNamNet Bridge - A number of websites in Ba Ria – Vung Tau province have been hacked, adding to a growing number of incidents. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Nguyen Van Phong, deputy head of the Hanoi Party Committee’s Propaganda & Education Committee, has denied that 90 percent of students who score at the top of university graduation exams refuse to work for Hanoi state agencies.

VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi Party Committee’s Secretary Pham Quang Nghi said it was not surprising that some PhDs and masters had failed civil service exams for Hanoi’s state agencies.

VietNamNet Bridge - Fourteen valedictorians passed the civil service exam one year ago but still cannot take office at state agencies.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more lawsuits, in which businesses are the plaintiffs and state management agencies the defendants, have been occurring in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With the Prime Minister having allowing state agencies to use outsourced services, information technology (IT) firms hope they will get more jobs in the time to come.

Closed-source software products, mostly Microsoft’s, have been dominating Vietnam’s software market, despite the government’s encouragement to develop and use open-source software.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It was not the right time to request state agencies to use open source software five years ago. And it is not the right time to do this now. It is because of the lack of the supporting technical staff.

Many central provinces complained that they could not recruit well-trained people to government agencies but many college graduates, even those who were trained abroad, bemoaned that they could not find a job at state agencies in their hometowns.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The State plans to budget VND200 billion for the national program on the information technology application at state agencies (program 1605) for 2014-2015, which is not worth-while.

VietNamNet Bridge – Although the annual cost of sending and receiving files at State agencies is over VND130 billion, only six ministries, government agencies and provinces are using electronic services,

The goal of building an e-government may be unattainable due to the lack of money, labor force and other problems.