MONRE: It’s time to digitise land management

At a recent workshop, Mai Van Phan, Deputy Head of the MONRE’s General Department of Land Administration (GDLA) said e-government and the Fourth Industrial Revolution plays an important role in land management.

He added a project on completing land information infrastructure at central and local level based on the involvement of relevant agencies was also being finalised.

Entitled “E-government and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Opportunities and challenges to land management sector”, the workshop, aimed at sharing information on the implementation of the GDLA’s tasks.

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The accomplishment of e-government foundation would help enhance the efficiency of administrative authorities’ operation and improve the service’s quality for local residents and enterprises, said Nguyen Tuan Anh, from Agency of Administrative Procedure Control.

To develop e-Government in Vietnam, he said, the MONRE should meet the objective of developing and completing an integrated national land database, sharing data with other ministries and localities.

Anh said: “Regarding the adoption of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in land management, special attention should be paid to the application of blockchain in transactions between the systems, application of large data technology in data collection and analysis and decision support in the field of land.” 

Participants at the workshop also clarified the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the building of e-government and its structure that the MONRE was developing.

Beasides, Deputy Head of Department of Information Technology and Natural Resources Data Nguyen Bao Chung pointed out the Fourth Industrial Revolution would increase the chance of providing information, sharing data and improving labour productivity in natural resources management in general and land management in particular.

Chung believed the creation of a transparent land database would better serve people, businesses and the development of the country by limiting shortcomings related to land planning.