Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is building a scheme of database on natural resources and the environment to satisfy increasing demand in state the management, socio-economic development, defense, security, scientific research, education, international cooperation, and e-government development in the natural resourcesand environment sector.
In a meeting discussing on the Scheme, Minister Tran Hong Ha and Deputy Ministers Chu Pham Ngoc Hien, Nguyen Linh Ngoc, Nguyen Thi Phuong Hoa and Vo Tuan Nhan agreed that a prerequisite for the scheme is to be unified, synchronized from central to local levels.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has launched a project to build national database on natural resources and environment since 2009. Mr. Le Phu Ha - Director of Department of Information Technology (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment) said that after carefully analyzing the effectiveness of building a database in Phase I, Department of Information Technology proposed the Ministry to build a database Phase II. The Department also proposed to synchronize infrastructure and technology in order to avoid waste, especially licensing costs; develop a system of mechanisms and policies to use, operate, manage, update and exploit databases. The scheme will be implemented from the central to local levels, in which all agencies under the Ministry are involved in the project to build a database.
According to Minister Tran Hong Ha, the database construction of all the fields is essential. Then, data layer of the field must be integrated to form a database for the sector. It is time to standardize the databases of all fields and operating systems, tools to build a database must be done.
The Minister requested the functional units to immediately issue regulations on data standards, legal regulations on data for the relevant units in the sector at all levels.
Viet Hung