HANOI (Xinhua): Vietnam has piloted digital birth and death certificates in some parts of the country before issuing them nationwide in June, state television VTV reported on Thursday (April 20).
Authorities have issued 223 digital birth certificates and 31 digital death certificates in Hanoi and the nearby province of Hanam since Monday, Nguyen Thanh Hai, head of the Department of Civil Status, Citizenship and Certification at the Ministry of Justice told local online newspaper VnExpress.
Following the registration with local authorities, people can collect a physical certificate as well as have a digital copy sent to their e-mail inbox, he said.
The trial is part of the government's efforts to build a consistent national population database and an electronic identification and authentication system.
Vietnam has accelerated the development of digital infrastructure so as to streamline administrative procedures, support socio-economic growth, promote digital citizen development, and improve the administration of the localities at all levels.
Vietnam's digital government landscape ranked 86th out of 193 countries in 2022, according to the United Nations E-Government Survey released every two years.
Vietnam is slated to make to the list of top 50 digital governments by 2025, said the Ministry of Information and Communications.
