As a large and technically complex database, its standardisation, enrichment, and quality will depend heavily on its component databases.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) has organised a special meeting, to discuss solutions for advancing the implementation of national databases and specialised databases under its authority. The meeting was chaired by Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra.
In her opening remarks, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra stressed that the meeting aimed to clarify requirements and propose measures to accelerate specialised databases in line with directions from higher authorities, under Plan No. 02 of the Central Steering Committee. She emphasised that databases under the responsibility and authority of the Ministry must be completed to drive digital transformation.
According to Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra, the Ministry had defined 2025 as “the year of data” from the outset. Specialised databases within the Ministry’s state management functions must be completed with determination to establish a data centre capable of seamless and integrated connectivity.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has been tasked with drafting a scheme on the National Database on Social Security, revising and replacing Scheme No. 708 (under Decision No. 708/QD-TTg dated May 25, 2017, in which the Prime Minister approved the plan to develop the national social security database and apply IT to social security policy implementation up to 2020, with a development orientation to 2030). The new scheme is expected to be finalised and submitted to the Prime Minister for promulgation in 2025.
Once the scheme is completed, the scale and scope of databases and information systems will change. The Ministry will then adjust its implementation plan for the subsequent phase to meet the Government’s requirements for management and direction.
At present, the Information Technology Centre has been working with corporations and enterprises to conduct surveys and prepare the Ministry’s plan for implementing the National Database on Social Security in 2025 and 2026.
A representative of the Information Technology Centre under the Ministry of Home Affairs also highlighted several limitations in the implementation of both national and specialised databases under the Ministry.
Concluding the meeting, Minister Pham Thi Thanh Tra required that by 2025, 14 databases must be completed, including 11 databases under Plan No. 02-KH/BCDTW and Resolution No. 71/NQ-CP. Two national databases, on cadres, civil servants and public employees, and on social security, must strictly meet the objectives and requirements set by higher authorities.
