VietNamNet Bridge – The information technology (IT) application
projects funded by the State budget have been going at a snail’s pace because
of the unreasonable administrative procedures.
The fertile land with few cultivation opportunities
The IT business circle has
complained that the government’s resolution No. 11 on cutting public spending
and the Decree No. 102 on the management over state funded IT projects have
badly affected the implementation of IT projects.
Duong Dung Trieu, General
Director of FPT IS, a subsidiary of FPT Group, said no integrated project
funded by the state budget has been signed since October 2011 due to the
complicated investment procedures stipulated in the Decree No. 102.
The decree has been described as
“unique decree”, because it cannot be applied in reality.
Though money has been allocated
to investors, no IT project has been kicked off. The IT projects funded by the
State have become nearly frozen.
State funded IT projects are always
considered the “tidbit” for IT firms, because they are all big projects with
huge investment capital. Therefore, state funded projects are really the
fertile land on which every IT firm wishes to make for cultivation.
However, to date, IT firms still
cannot see many opportunities for cultivation on the land. The IT application
projects are carried out in different project components, while every unit is
in charge of certain works. As a result, the different parts cannot be
integrated into a system for operation.
“Except for some big agencies
which have experiences in implementing public investment projects, the other
projects have been ineffective,” Trieu said.
“It’s necessary to change the
procedures to approach government agencies to make them suitable to different
stages of IT projects,” Trieu added.
Since IT firms, which have been
slaving over the big IT projects, still cannot obtain the pieces of the cake;
they have been trying to cooperating with state management agencies to push up
the disbursement.
PPP mechanism believed to be the most feasible solution
It’s really very difficult to
obtain the contracts on implementing IT utilization projects in the public
investment sector. However, the difficulties would not make IT firms give up
the games.
Adversity brings wisdom. FPT IS,
for example, can still sell its products by approaching the local demands. Its
FPT.eGOV, an e-government information system solution has been effectively
running at 539 state agencies in 21 out of the 62 provinces and cities.
The product was chosen by the HCM
City People’s Committee as the outstanding product for the IT development
program in the city in 2011, which has helped put HCM City on the leading
position in the ICT application index nationwide.
FPT IS has recently signed a
memorandum of understanding on the cooperation with Quang Ninh about the IT
development in 2012-2015 in the fields of e-government, e-tax, e-health care.
Trieu of FPT IS believes that
Vietnam should consider different investment modes to choose the best ones for
IT state funded projects.
FPT IS, for example, has offered
to carry out projects under different modes of PPP (private public
partnership), BOT (build, operation, transfer) or IT outsourcing, to give more
choices to government and state agencies.
Analysts have agreed that once IT
is defined as one of the four infrastructure bases of the national
infrastructure, this would be a feasible way to follow in implementing IT
projects for government agencies.
Compiled by Thanh Mai
Business & Investment Opportunities
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