Decision No. 179/2004/QD-TTg approving the Strategy on application and development of natural resources and environment information technology till 2015 and orientation towards 2020

OFFICIAL GAZETTE No. l1 Cl 4-10-2004) THE PRIME MINISTER DECISION No. 179/2004/QD-TTg OF OCTOBER 6, 2004 APPROVING THE STRATEGY ON APPLICATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIHONMENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TILL 2015 AND ORIENTATION TOWARDS 2020 THE PRIME MINISTER Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Govomment; At the proposal of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment in Report No. 106/TTr BTNMT of July 28, 2004, DECIDES: Article 1.- To approve the strategy on application and development of natural resource and environment information technology till 2015 and orientation towards 2020 with the following principal contents: I. OBJECTIVES 1. To computerize the system of State administrative management over natural resources and environment up to Vietnam's e-government standards, raising the quality and efficiency of natural resource and environment management; to reform administrative procedures for the system of registration and licensing of natural resource exploitation and use as well as environment quality; and to create conditions for organizations and individuals to have access to information on natural resources and environment. By 2010, the computerization of the system of State administrative management over natural resources and environment must reach the following specific objectivi3s: a/ The State management work in the Natural Hosources and Environment Ministry's agencies shall be perfornmd through direct information link to the local-arec1 network of each domain in tho S(➔ Ctor; No. l l ( !4-10-2004) OFFICl!\L G/\ZE r rr: t;/ I hu procedures Jor rcH ratin11 :11111 licm1:,inq witllir1 the operation scopo of tho mttur,ll rosoun:e and environment sector shall bo carriud nut throuqh the local-a ma network of oach dorna1n in thn i.,uctur; cl flw natural rosourcr:: and n11virnnmn11t mana[Jomm1I information networks t,lwll be directly connected to the financial, bankino, tax nnd treasury managEiment networks for coordinated rnanatFJrnent of security transactions and financial rnanag(::mont ovEir natural resources and environment; cl/ The information on situation and m9istration systern: documents, policiGs and laws as well as plannin9s and plans already decided and approved shall be publicized on the information notwork of each domain in the sector; G/ The elaboration and adjustment of policies, laws and plannings shall be made on tho basis of analyzing data in the database of each domain in the sector. E3y 2015, the computerization of tho system of State administrative management over natural resources and environment shall be effected on a uniform information network on natural resourcos and onvironment. 2. Equipment and technologies in sorvice of investirJation, survey, observation and cartography shall be gradually converted into digital-technology nenerations, onsuring the almost full automation of the recoption of natural resource and rnwironment data, and the automation of loading data into the clatabac;o. By 2010, bEitween 50% and 100'10 of the equipment used in investioation, survey, obsGrvation and cartography shall bo converted into digital tochnologies. Depending on the specific demand of uach domain in the sector, by 2015, to rai~,o the raln to betwt,en 70% and 100°/c,, and by 2020, to comploto the whole procoss of convnrtin~1 daliHUC()iviri<J techn1)lonins. 3. !lie rintionnl ilat:d:Ht:;u rn1 nnturul ru:;011rco:, ,uHI env1rur1111n11t shull rm fully intn111ntod in tho national intorrnnt1011 rwtwork on natmal resources and unvini11me11t, W[Jularly updatnd, on-line connected to datnha:;ns of th<·J rJornnin!·, in the soctor and botwenn tho central and provincial levels, and off 1 ino cor111r➔ ctecl to international and regional datahnsns on natural resourcfJS and environment, playing tlm nucleus role in the national system of natural resource and environmont supervision, forming tho information infrastructure in service of Statt} management, economic, social, clefenso, socurity, sci<,rntific research, education-training activities, and raising people's intellectual standards. By 2010, to complete the building and integration of the database of each domain in the natural resource~ and environment sector with data standardized according to the national standards; to be regularly updated from local supervision systems and the national satellite photo.receiving station, and added with regional and global data; to be connected according to domains between the central and provincial levels to form the website of each domain in the sector, ensuring the requirements of State management over each domain and the provision of full data for national socio-economic, defense and security activities; firstly to experiment the integration of information of thfJ database of each domain according to the designed national database on natural resources and environment By 201 !:i, the national database on natural msources and environment shall bH built by complete intngration uf the database of oach domain in theJ soctor in orclor to form the national information network on natural resources and environment, consisting of all prosent and historical data, data roqulnrly updatr,d from th(➔ contra! invostigation, survoy, ubi;urvation and carto9raphy network, from local rnnn,1qHrnont systerns, from the national satnllite ph(lto-rucHivin~J station and international cln1n r,icuivi1111 i::tntiuns; tilo sy,oloni ot dntrtbm;es and 1r1fon11;1tio11 notwnrks un nnt11ral rt:):3otncos and OFFICIAL GAZETTE No. 11 (14-"10-20011) mwironrnent shall constitute a uniform syi,tern from the central to local levE~ls, standardized according to the national standards, having means to absolutely ensure data safety and security; the database on natural resources and environment shall fully meet the State management requirements, reflect oxactly the situation, evaluatethe use potential, make appropriate plannings on the use and forecast of environmental impacts and natural catastrophes in service of the demand for use of information for socio economic development as well as defense and security maintenance. 4. To apply and develop information technology for solving specialized mathematic problems in order to raise the quality of processing of large volumes of data on natural resources and environment; raise the reliability of forecast of weather, climate, natural catastrophes and environment pollution. By 2010, the application and development of information technology for solving the sector's complicated specialized mathematic problems should yield the following results: al The establishment of a section for high efficiency calculation with designed special-use hardware with high-speed processing and calculation, being capable of performing multi processing and multi-tasks used for the whole sector; the development of a separate special-use software of each domain suitable to Vietnam's particularities. b/ The operation of the national satellite photo receiving station in service of supervision of natural resource and environment situation on the basis of periodically receiving several kinds of optic and radar photos, suitable to the common use of the whole country and exclusive use for the natural resource and environment sector; the development of a special-use software for processing aviation-satellite photos for natural resource and environment purposes. c/ The operation of the systmn of SJlohal positioninn t;tations (GPS) in order to providH information for raisino the positionin9 and piloting accuracy in service of the natural resourcG and environment sector's specific demand for investigation, survey, cartography and observation and the country's use demand. The system's Hanoi based central station shall be built as a laboratory for satellite-positioning technologies and receiving the earth exploration, survey and research-related data from other satellites. d/ A laboratory for each domain in the sector with appropriate hardware and software to meet the demand for special-use information technology application and development in the domain. By 2015, to complete the high-perforrnance calculation laboratory, the laboratory for processing photo and geological data (of the national satellite photo-receiving station), the laboratory for processing data on positioning satellites as well as the earth exploring, surveying and researching satellites (of the central GPS) for being put into operation strictly according to the designed functions for processing large volumes of data in analyzing situation and forecasting natural resources and environment; to enter into domestic and international cooperation on scientific research into the earth, provide data to the subjects that wish to use and develop natural resource and environment special-use information technology. II. STRATEGY'S PIVOTAL TASKS ANO IMPLEMENTATION STEPS 1. To computerize the reception and updating of natural resource and environment data through inw~stigation, survey, cartography and observation in the domains of the natural resource and environment sector. The time for completing the computerization of investigation, survey, cartography and observation tK1Uipment for each domain is determined as follows: a/ Land rnanagmnent: By ~>010, to complete the cartonraphy of cadastral maps with digital OFFICIAL. GAZETIE todrnolooies; to make rnaps on nctual land-Lwe situation and supervise tho irnplermintation of land use plannings and plans with aviation·satellite photos. b/ Water rnsource managoment: Ely 2005, to organize the rnception of data on water source survey, water source use supervision and water environment quality observation from implementing agencies for loading them into the database; by 2015, to upgrade or furnish water resource investigation, survey, cartography and observation equipment using digital technologies. cl Geology and mineral management: By 2010, to computerize the system of supervising mineral exploitation situation from earth-surface and satellite photo supervision stations; by 2015, to computerize the geological mapping based on earth-surf ace survey and cartographic data in combination with aviation-satellite photos; by 2020, to computerize the whole earth-suriace equipment system in service of geological survey, exploration and cartography; to complete the computerization of geological survey, exploration and cartographic equipment. d/ Environment: By 2010, to complete the observation system, the system of evaluating environment quality by telereconnaissance technologies; by 2020, to complete the system of earth-surface observation stations and environment quality evaluation with digital technologi(~S. el Hydro-meteorology: By 2005, to complete the system of receiving and processing data from air space, weather radar and cloud photo-receiving stations; by 2020, to complete the upgrading of equipment of the whole hydro-meteorological cartography network with digital technologies. ff Topography: By 2005, to computerize the whole system of equipment for measuring coordinates, altitude and Harth-surface gravity; by 2010, to upgrade thf) system of sea topography Bquiprm)nt with digital technologies; by 2015, to upnraclEi trm systen1 of n1easuring avialion-satellitn photos with digital tochnologies. 2. To build the national database on natural resources and environment with the following steps: a/ Frorn now till 2005: To conduct feasible studies on dcisigning a database on natural resources and environment, experimentally operate it, and build the standardized common-use geological database. bl From 2006 to 2010: To build ccmponent databases in the domains of land, water resource, mineral, environment, geology, hydro-meteorology and topography management according to uniform standards. cl From 2011 to 2015: To integrate the domains' component databases into the national database on natural resources and environment. 3. To organize the system of data-transmitting networks in service of specialized branches and provision of natural resource and environment data to meet the State management, socio-economic development, defense, security, scientific research, training and international cooperation demands as well as other demands of the society and communities. The data-transmitting networks are designed and operated in parallel with databases with the following specific steps: a/ From now till 2005: Each domain in the sector shall be designed with a specialized Intranet, connected to the server of the Ministry's Information Center and the server of the Ministry's office. bl From 2006 to 2010: Each specialized Intranet shall be put into operation, ensuring the link of dispersed specialized data at central and provincial level, the provision of data to meet State management demand and other economic, social, defense and security derr1ands, connected to international information centers of their respective domains for the exchange of international coopomtion data; spocializE-)d lntranets shall be inter connocted for exchange of data, and connected to OFFICIAL Gl\ZFfH:: Nn. 11 ( '14· 10·2004) thu ln1ornut for provision of information to lli()Ht tlw cornnion-usn demand and tf1E: community·:; inlormation dnrnand. cl From 2011 lo 20·1 h: To complGtely build tho national Intranet on natural resourcu::, and environment on tho ba[;is of connecting the domains' specialized lntranets (called trw national inforrnation network on nntural resourcns and environrnnnt). 4. To apply and dnvelop information technolofJY in order to raise thH efiiciency of solving specific problems on natural resources and environment along the direction of efficiently applying foreign spocial-iJse information technologies, encouraging domestic hardware and software technological solutions in order to raise tho efficiency of processing large volurmis of data and increase the reliability of their results with the following specific steps: a/ From 200f3 to 2010: To build a high-efficiency calculation laboratory being capable of solving mathematic problems that require high•·speed calculation for processing large volumes of data in service of the whole natural resource and environment sector; to efficiently exploit the laboratory for processing photo and geological data, which is built in association with the national satellite photo-receiving station; to operate the laboratory for processin(J GPS satHllite positioning data, which is built in association with GPS's Hanoi-based central station, to combine the reception and processing of data from the earth-exploring, -sLirw)yin~J and rnsearching satellites in service of the domestic demand for data. bl From 2011 to 2015: Tc.) raise the capability to process large volumes of data and tho reliability of the received rnsults; to settle at a high(:H level mathematic problems on analyzin9 natural rnsource and environment situation, natural rosource wm planning, forecast of natural and nnvironrnent catastrophos caused by humans; to crnate l1rttdwan1 ;rnd so/twme products tor solvinu spocifir; prnhlnrni; on natural rosrnirco and nnvirnnmunt infonr1.1tiun. !i. lo WHII itnpknnont the proon1rr1 on computorizinu tho Stat1? aclrninistmtivo rnana9tm1ent sy:.,lum (Prowrnn 112) in a9oncies in charne ot Stale rn,tmtr1ornu11t ovHr natural resources and 1rnvirornnent; to closely combino it with tho procr:.iss of tJui!dinu Ille database on natural wsources and environment, to build the national information network on natural rosources and environment with the following specific steps: al From now till 2005: To comprehensively cornputE-➔ rize the clerical work for the Natural Resources and E:nvironrnent Ministry's office and the provincial/municipal Services of Natural Resourrns and Environment, and create computerized management contacts among the Government, the Ministry of Natural F-lesources and Environment and the provincial-level People's Committees with regard to the State management over natural resources and environment. bl From 2006 to 2010: To computerize administrative activities with citizens in order to reform the administrative procedures in each domain of the sector; to register, grant, disseminate policies and laws, and publicize plannings in the natural resource and environment domain on the specialized information network. cl From 2011 to 2015: To computerize the State rnanagernent over natural resources and environment at a higher level: to propose the formulation of policies and laws, approval of plannings, formulation of management decisions supported by the system of analyzing information in tho database on natural resourcE:1s and environment; to create direct links botween the State's administrative a9Erncies and citizens through the sys tern of information networks on natural resources and environment. ti. To build the systnm ot sufficient documents pr,1scribinq technicnl stnndards on natural resource nrid orwironrrnmt i11forrnntior1 ancl loqnl documents on n1nnnq1m1i:rnt of nnturnl resoun:o and fJnvironrmmt OFFICl/\1 ir1r,1nrnitio11 in Hie puriod fr(Jrn now rill :'OOb, with U10 fo!lowinq tat:ki;: <ti To prrnnulqato documunt:; prescnbinq tochnicAI stm1dnrds on natural rusource and 11nvironrmrnt intonmition; b/ lo : ;ubrnit to H1E:-} Government for promulgation a decreo on rnana\Jement of natural resource and environrnent information, clearly defining the responsibilities and interests of inforrnation-provicJing agencies, the responsibilities of inforrnation"rnanaging ag0rncies, thH responsibilitiEJS and interests of information users, the logality of information, information ownership, information provision rnnchanisrn, regime on ensuring information safety and security, and introclucc➔ such systHm of legal documents into life. 7. To train information technology personnel to meet the quantitative and qualitative demands for implementation of the strategy on application and development of natural resource and environment information technology through implementing information technology programs and projects; to b/ rn prornultJa!e sufficient lf:,qal docurr11::lnts as ,;oon w, pm;siblf:i so as to create a legal framework in tho cour~;<➔ of ir :·,/ernentin9 the strategy, especially to soon proscribe the systorn of standards on natural rosourcfl and environment data; c/ To mobilim cJifforent capital sources such as economic non-business, scientific non-business, capital construction, Program 112, otticial development assistance (ODA), foreign cooperation, etc. for eXf3Cution of the strategy's programs and projects pari by part; especially it is necessary to actively seek for ODA capital source for execution of big projects; cl/ To adopt a mechanism on encouraging software development and speeding up computerization in information technology application and development in the sector; el To create a mechanism for coordination among the domains i • , sector, between the central and local levels, ien the natural resource and environment t. and other sectors for cooperation in data infrastructure development, avoiding data sectionalism; increase the content of training information f/To crea, :Jitions for the sector's domains to technology on natural resources and environment at participate in ,.,mal and global data cooperation collegos and intermediate vocational-training schools under the Ministry as well as natural resource and environment faculties of universities; to provide specialized training on natural resources and environrmint to information technoloqy f)xperts workin9 at the units in tho sector; to diss1;::rninate information t,xhnology application knowledge on the soctor-'s websites, to build a corrosponchmce training system for the sector's officials in localities. Ill. MAJOR SOLUTIONS AS WELL. AS KEY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS I. Major solutions: a/ fhe forrnulation, appnwal and nxocution of projE"Jcts must be based on H1r) stratu9y's contents :30 1hat pmjncts' products :,uit ti 1(1 :.,:y:;tenmtism or liln :;tr;11uuv; activities in ordn1 :o settle general issues on natural resources and . 'i, ironment. 2. Key prog .s and projects: a/ The➔ prowam on renewing the natural resource and environment investigation, survey, cartography and observation equipment and facilities alor.g the dimction of dig .11 technology. To continue executing the uncompleted projects, formulate new ones, ensuring synchronous investment from capital cont , :, tion (tor basic surveys), economic non·business, s ic non-business and ODA capital sources. The pi , ;, im shall be completed by 2010, con!,ic,tinrJ of the fc lowinrJ specific projects: rho proj 3c;I m renewing observation and cartouraphic equipment in tho systorn of hydro· n1o!ouroi(1qical stations. OFFICIJ\L GAZETTE No. 11 (14-10-2004) To continue uptJrading equipment and tacilities at hydro··rneteorological and OC(➔ ,rnographic stations, ensuring synchronism and systernatisrn by automation digital tHchnology with capital construction capital sourcE➔ (for basic surveys). The project on building and renewing environmental observation equipment and facilities in the system of environmental observation stations. To continue upgrading equipment and facilities at environmental observation stations, ensuring synchronism and systematism by automation digital technology with capital construction capital source (for basic surveys), economic non-business capital source for environment, and ODA capital source. The project on renewing geological and geo physical investigation, survey and exploration equipment for geological federations To continue upgrading geological and geo physical investigation, survey and exploration equipment and facilities, ensuring synchronism and systematism for geological federations by digital technology with capital construction capital source (for basic surveys) and economic non-business capital source for geology. The project on renewing aerial photographing equipment, aerial laser-scanning equipment, sea-bed topographic equipment To upgrade aerial photographing equipment by digital photographing technology or aerial laser scanning technology, to substitute reverberated sound depth-measuring equipment with ray-beam reverberated-sound scanning equipment in sea topography with capital construction capital source (for basic surveys), economic non-business capital source for topography, and ODA capital source. The project on building the national system of satellite photo-receiving and ·--processing stations To build satellite pt1oto-rece1vin~J stations and photo-processing stations and to develop the application of telerE1ccirinaissance t0Jclinology in natural rnsourco and environment supervision with the French Ciovr,Jrnrnent's ODA capital source. Tho project on building the system of fixed GPS in Vietnarn To continue building 7 GPS which continuously receive signals from stationing satellites and re transmit them in order to raise the stationing and routing accuracy; to build more 16 fixed stations which continuously receive signals from satellites in service of earth-crust shifting observation with capital construction capital source (for basic surveys) and ODA capital source. b/The program on building the national database on natural resources and environment It consists of many projects, each of them shall be exewted by a domain in the sector with contents on building the database for such domain or on database integration, to be executed from 2006 to 2010 with economic non-business and ODA capital sources: The project on modernization of the land management system To computerize the land management system on the basis of building a cadastral dossier database, to be executed in the 2005-2010 period with ODA capital source. The project on modernization of the water resource management system To computerize the water resource management system on the basis of building the database on water resources and water resource use, to be executed in the 2006-2010 period with ODA capital source. The project on modernization of the mineral management system To computerize the mineral management system on tho basis of building the database on minerals and mineral use, to be executed in the 2006-2010 period with ODA capital source. •· The projGct on building the geowaphical r!;ital.iase OFFICIJ\L GAZETTE Tc) build tho gBographical database for comrnon use, to be executed from now till ?00£:i wit11 economic non-business capital source. •· The projflct on building the hydrcH11eteorological databasG To build the hydro-meteorological database, to be executed in the 2006-2010 period with economic non business capital source. The project on building Hie environmental database To build the environmental database, to be executed in the 2006-2010 period with economic non business capital source. The project on building the geological database To build the geological and geo-physical database, to be executed in the 2006-2010 period with economic non-business capital source. The project on building an electronic library on natural resources and environment To collect all domestic, regional and international important documents, books, newspapers and data on natural resources and environment for the establishment of an electronic library to satisfy demands for information in service of State management and communities, to be executed in the 2005-201 0 period with economic non-business capital source. The project on building the integratod database on natural resources and environment To build the system of integration of all specialized databases into the national database on natural resources and environment, to be executed in the 2006 .. 201 0 period with economic non-business capital source. cl The project on building the website on natural resources and environment To build an Intranet for each domain of tho sector for inteqration into the national information n£~twork on nntmal ros<rnrces and <,mvironmont, to trn exc➔cuted from 2007 to 2015 with economic non-• business and ODA capital sources. di T~if) project on computerization of the State rnanayement system (the Govmnment's Program 112) To build the State administrative management system along the orientation of an e-government (excluding the contents on building the database and data transmission network), to be executed from 2002 to 2010 (being under way) with the capital source of the Government's Program 112. el The project on information technology application and development for solving specialized problems on natural resources and environment To study and develop the information technology for solving specific problems on processing large volumes of data, to implement identification theory and artificial intelligence in interpreting the earth related information, to increase the reliability of natural and environmental catastrophe forecasts as well as scientific research into the earth, to be executed from 2006 to 2010 with scientific and economic non-business capital sources. fl The project on elaborating legal framework documents on management of natural resource and environment data To draft a government's decree on reception, universalization, management and use of natural resource and environment data; to set technical standards on natural resource and environment data, to be executed from now till 2005 (being under way) with economic non-business capital source. Article 2.- To assign the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Post and Telematics, the Ministry of Science and 1t:chnology and concerned agencies in, implementing the contents prescribed in Article 1; coordinate with the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the Ministry of Finance in building the annual capital plan for implementation of this strntGgy. OFF!CIJ\L Article ;J.- Tliii: Docision takt:S offnct ·1 h clnvs aftr;r it~; publication in thn Official Gazette. Tho rnini~;ton,;, !ht~ heads of the rnini::.teriaHnvt,I a;3tincios, the hnads of tho Government-nttached at:ioncies and trw prnsicJ~rnts of the provincial/ rnunicipal People's Committees shall have to implement this Decision. Prime Minister PHAN VAN KHAI !'lo. 11 (14--10-200·1)