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II/1/2/4 MoFIT: Ministry of Finance IT
The Vietnamese Ministry of Finance is
undertaking, with World Bank support, the development and installation
of a Financial Information System. Key functions include synthesis of
state budget plans, management of fund allocations, formulation and
review of tax policies, exchange of data between various levels and
ministries.
This project is studying appropriate infrastructures to support the
accurate, timely and secure collection and analysis of data.
January 1996 -- July 1997
Vietnamese Ministry of Finance
To enable own development and support of advanced software systems and
to ensure that the final system is suitable for and adapted to
Vietnam's particular requirements. In particular:
- domain analysis of the Ministry of Finance's and other
ministries' financial systems
- requirements analysis of the information and financial flows and
the required functionality of the system
The project started with a course for the Vietnam Ministry of Finance (MoF)
systems analysts and software engineers on advanced software
development using RAISE in Hanoi, Vietnam in January 1996.
During 1996 five Fellows from Vietnam came to UNU/IIST for six months,
four from the MoF and one from the Institute of Information
Technology. They concentrated on the taxation system, since they were
most familiar with taxation. A number of reports were produced:
- Domain analysis
- including an informal description and a formal
specification;
- Tax policy
- looking at likely tax policy developments in Vietnam
and their likely implications for the system;
- Security
- covering security requirements and how they might be
specified;
- Testing
- describing how a rapid prototype of the accounting
module was created and used for testing;
- Optimisation
- describing how the same prototype of the
accounting module was developed in various ways to investigate
optimisations of the accounting calculations;
- Development
- describing the development of the specification
into a distributed, concurrent system.
These are summarised in [1].
Two of the original Fellows continued for a further 6 months into
1997, and were joined by another from Hanoi University. The work was
extended to cover the Budget and Treasury systems, as well as the
"external" system dealing with foreign borrowing and with aid:
[2].
The technical issue of combining the separate hierarchical
descriptions of the taxation, treasury etc systems into a single
distributed system was also investigated and a solution specified.
This allows asynchronous communication not only "vertically" within
each hierarchy but also "horizontally" between, for example,
provincial taxation and treasury offices.
The work has been much appreciated by the Vietnamese Ministry of
Finance and it is hoped to continue collaboration with them on a
consultancy basis.
iistinfo@iist.unu.edu, September 1997
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