What were the most impressive tasks that you did in your term?
In
my five-years as the Minister of Information and Communications, I and my
co-workers fulfilled 25 great tasks. I would like to emphasize the four most
meaningful tasks.
Firstly,
after 18 months of careful preparation, we submitted to the Prime Minister the
project to quickly turn Vietnam into a powerful country in information and
communications (ICT) by 2020. The project was ratified. If it is implemented
successfully, Vietnam’s position in ICT the world.
Secondly,
we successfully designed and defended our project to bring IT to the rural
areas before the government and National Assembly. Of all tasks that the
government must to do for farmers, providing them with information and
knowledge is decisive to change their awareness and actions.
Thirdly,
I was in charge of the compilation committees of four bills on Publication,
Wireless Frequency, Telecommunications, Post and many by-law documents. All of
these documents were approved. These are significant legal tools to develop the
ICT sector, contributing the country’s development and integration.
Finally,
successfully defending the assistance fund to attract talents for the ICT
sector.
What are the biggest
challenges of the Minister of Information and Communications in the new age?
What undone tasks that make you worried most?
The
biggest challenge for the leader of the communication, press and information
the new age is working under great pressures.
As a
leader of the press, the most interesting thing is knowing a lot of
information, but the biggest worry is what I do is not on par with what I know.
The
undone task that I wonder most is the establishment of the University of
Information and Communications. However, I and my colleges have completed four
related tasks: reporting the establishment of that university to the
government, designing the project to call for investment and selecting the
school location. We have acquired $50 million of ODA from South Korea in the
fiscal year of 2013. We have also worked out the training direction for the
university.
Based
on these warm-up tasks, I believe that the successor will implement this
project successfully in the near future.
You said when you took office
that you would create an open pavement and journalists would walk on it. Could
you talk more about this goal?
To
facilitate operations of the press, I and other officials of the MoIC were
determined to amend the Press Law. The law has been adjusted 16 times but it
has not been approved by the National Assembly. However, I’ve tried my best to
do necessary task for the press.
One of tasks that you
committed to do during your term is completing the Press Law to give more
freedom to the press and making conditions for the establishment of strong
press groups but until now the Press Law has not been amended. Do you think
that it is your “debt” to journalists? Why has the Press Law not been amended?
Yes,
it is my “debt” to journalists. The reason I mentioned in the previous answer.
However, I registered to put the law into the program to build laws and
ordinances of the 13th National Assembly. Accordingly, the amended Publishing
Law will be ratified in 2012, the amended Press Law in 2013 and the Law on
Information Safety in 2014.
That
is good news for my colleagues.
Why can you not fulfill some
goals that you set in your terms? Is it because they are beyond your capability
or your authority? Do you think that your successor needs more power?
There
is always a gap between what we want to do and what we can do because policies
are un-synchronous. The common matter of our public apparatus is tardiness. One
of solutions for this problem is decentralization, to reduce works for the
superior, raising the real power, self-reliance and dynamic for the inferior
and speeding up tasks.
What is your personal plan
after retirement?
My guideline
for living after retirement includes “two things to forget, two things to
remember and one thing must have.”
It
is: forgetting age and diseases, remember who help me, my bosom comrades and
colleagues, and continue to live usefully for myself, for my family and the
society.
Retirement
is a good chance for me to do what I like and take care of myself, my family
and my friends after 43 years of working and 41 years as a party member.
I
would like to give my best regards to VietNamNet’s readers!
Le Nhung
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