The Current Legal Provisions on Electronic Records and Electronic Archives in Vietnam

Abstract

This paper presents the provisions of Vietnamese law on electronic records and electronic document archives and focuses on the following issues: The provisions of Vietnamese law on electronic records (definition, legal validity, regulations on digital signatures, amendments in the socio-economic fields which shall be adequate for the use of electronic records in the activities of state agencies); The provisions of Vietnamese law on electronic archives (State management responsibilities for electronic document archives); Regulations on electronic archives’ activities (collection, value identification, preservation, protection, usage, and destruction when they have no further value to exploit). In conclusion the Comments on the achievements and future direction for electronic archives are presented.