Mr. Le Nhat, Deputy Director of the Digital Government Center, National Digital Transformation Agency, Ministry of Information and Communications, said that building a "smart commune" model in the National Digital Transformation strategy in general is also important such as building new rural areas in particular to perfect commune-level electronic government and move towards digital government, supporting "smarter" commune-level government administration.

Besides, contributing to ensuring social security, safety and order in rural areas; Applying digital technology to serve agricultural production, develop high-tech agriculture, increase the value of agricultural products and expand transactions on the Internet as well as improve the quality of people's lives, such as healthcare, education and in many other fields.

Building smart communes or commune-level digital transformation is an inevitable and urgent need that puts "people at the center", with the goal of narrowing the gap between rural and urban areas through the application of smart communes. digital technology to bring many conveniences, develop digital economy and digital society to make people in villages richer and happier.

Therefore, what criteria must the smart commune model ensure? A representative of the National Digital Transformation Agency said that currently, the Ministry of Information and Communications is developing a draft document "Promulgating a framework of criteria and methods for evaluating and recognizing the level of digital transformation at district and district levels ansd commune level (Version 1.0)", has asked for widespread opinions from ministries, branches and localities; It is currently in the process of being completed before being officially issued.

Each criterion is determined according to each level, the value of the criteria gradually increases and other criteria of the corresponding level are added. The document will also provide instructions on corresponding collection and evaluation methods for localities to refer to, implement criteria as well as have scientific assessments that will have specific criteria and full evaluation methods.