THE PRIME MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No: 1358/QD-TTg
Hanoi, October 16, 2001
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE PROJECT ON VIETNAM SOCIAL INSURANCE’S INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT IN THE 2001-2010 PERIOD
THE PRIME MINISTER
Pursuant to the Law on Organization of the Government of September 30, 1992;
At the proposals of the General Director of Vietnam Social Insurance and the Minister of Planning and Investment,
DECIDES:
Article 1.- To approve the project on Vietnam Social Insurance’s information technology development in the 2001-2010 period with the following major orientations:
1. General objectives:
To step by step deploy computerization applications in an uniform and comprehensive manner to professional operations of Vietnam Social Insurance from the central to district level, suitable to actual conditions of the social insurance of all levels.
2. Specific objectives:
a/ To develop specialized databases of the social insurance service as well as databases in service of internal management and administration.
b/ To equip a modern and synchronous hardware equipment system in the entire service and to formulate a wide area network (WAN for short) on the basis of inter-connecting local area networks (LAN for short), so as meet the requirements of managing the databases, on the principle of an open system, which is expandable, upgradeable and capable of exchanging information with other national and international systems.
c/ To train a contingent of cadres, specialists, technical workers and operators, who are capable of managing, and efficiently exploiting and using modern informatics technical facilities furnished to Vietnam Social Insurance.
3. Orientated overall model of information system of Vietnam Social Insurance
Vietnam Social Insurance’s system of professional data shall be organized according to the decentralization model, archived at 3 levels and furnished with back-up modes to assure the security and confidentiality of its data. Periodically, data shall be transmitted from lower levels to higher levels and vice versa, promptly serving the professional operations of Vietnam Social Insurance.