The plan aims to get the province ready in terms of technology and resources for the modernisation of IT infrastructure system, network and services and the enhancement of Internet connections among State agencies to match the common IPv6 trend in the work, replacing the exhausted IPv4, thus meeting the demand for new services of the digital administration and smart urban areas as well as requirements for 4G/5G services.

This is also a foundation for local departments and sectors as well as localities across Yen Bai to actively coordinate with relevant agencies to implement the upgrade of their IT and Internet system from IPv4 to IPv6.

In 2022, Yen Bai rose to the 27th position among 63 localities on national digital transformation index, leaping 13 positions from 2021. This is a good condition for the province to completely switch to IPv6 in 2025.

Yen Bai’s thorough viewpoint is to ensure the upgrading of the system to IPv6 is suitable and synchronous with the national action programme on IPv6 as well as technical standards and the existing IT infrastructure of the province without harming the underway IT system structure, meeting the demand for shared IT system among local agencies, organisations, sectors and businesses. The effort is expected to help the province speed up the realisation of targets set in its plan to build e-administrations and smart city, thus gradually completing digital transformation in all three pillars of digital administration, digital economy and digital society./.