105 schemes, projects and tasks on IT and statistics in 2017 completed

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According to Mr. Ha, in 2017, the Department of Financial Informatics and Statistics has successfully completed the plans, has step by step fulfilled the overall goal of "Accelerating the development and application of IT to solve administrative procedures, shortened processing time and reduced costs; to raise transparency in the operation of state agencies, create favourable conditions for people and enterprises, and develop e-Ministry of Finance.

In particular, the development and guidance of policies has always been a matter of concern and deployed by the Department in accordance with current regulations on the application of information technology and statistics and actual deployment of IT of the Ministry of Finance to provide timely guidance to units, contributing to improve effectiveness and efficiency in deploying IT application and financial statistics from the central level to local level.

The Department of Financial Informatics and Statistics also closely coordinated the implementation of the whole sector's tasks, developed plans and reported to the Ministry to unify the implementation: software copyright and the general applications of the whole sector must be clearly defined in terms of content, in line with the general decentralization of the sector and meet the requirements for deployment

At the same time, information security has been paid attention to and implemented in logical and comprehensive manner by all levels of leadership. Information security activities have been integrated in all aspects related to information and information systems; events and incidents that may affect the Ministry of Finance's information system must be regularly analysed to respond with appropriate plans.

As a result, in 2017, the Department of Financial Informatics and Statistics prevented the loss of information and secrets of the financial sector through the network environment, and attacks that delayed the operation of the system.

Statistics and databases were focused to be implemented and innovated. In addition to continuing to carry out regular tasks, maintaining and ensuring the timely supply of information about the economy and the society for the operation of the Ministry of Finance, the Department also has continued to implement the Scheme on national database on finance in accordance with the schedule and plan.

According to Nguyen Viet Ha, during 2017, the Department of Financial Informatics and Statistics has concentrated all resources and coordinated with the relevant units to accomplish a huge workload.

As of 19th December, 2017, the Department has completed 105 schemes, projects and tasks (including 11 documents guiding mechanisms and policies, 16 tasks in the work plan, 32 tasks arising and 46 Departmenttasks); received more than 5,900 incoming documents, submitted to the Ministry 193 Official Letters, issued 300 decisions and sent 1,130 letters to the units.

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