Digital transformation has been identified by the provincial Youth Union as one of the key solutions to renew its leadership, management and organisation of its activities and movements. Technology is now being applied comprehensively in document processing, report compilation, membership management and information connectivity with grassroots-level organisations.

According to Lo Manh Cuong, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Youth Union, the organisation has made effective use of the I-MTTQ document management system and flexibly handled work via Zalo and Gmail, while applying digital platforms to make reports. These efforts have helped improve work efficiency and reduce administrative procedures. The union has also stepped up the use of membership management software on the Thanh nien Viet Nam (Vietnamese Youth) app and regularly updated membership data on the platform.

In the first eight months of 2026, the board for youth union activities and children and adolescent affairs has received and processed more than 4,100 incoming documents and issued over 1,000 outgoing documents via the I-MTTQ system, while digitising numerous documents for conferences and meetings. More than 70,000 young people and children have participated in activities aimed at enhancing digital capabilities organised by youth unions and associations at all levels.

Alongside the digitisation of administrative and management procedures, unions at all levels have stepped up the application of technology and digitalisation in their activities. The provincial Youth Union currently maintains the "Tinh doan Son La" (Son La provincial Youth Union) fanpage, while 100% of youth unions at the commune, ward and school levels have their own fanpages.

These platforms serve as channels for communication and engagement with their members and young people, helping promote youth movements, effective models and exemplary individuals. They also disseminate the Party’s guidelines, the State’s policies and laws, and political events of the country and the locality, while raising young people' awareness of harmful, malicious and false content on social media and promoting safe and responsible use of social networks.

The digital transformation efforts of Son La’s youth are also reflected in meaningful community projects. Unions at all levels have established and maintained mobile  digital technology teams, which directly visit hamlets and residential areas, particularly in mountainous, remote and border areas to help residents install and use online public services, electronic identification and cashless payment services. They have also coordinated to help with the installation and use of the “Electronic Party Member Handbook.”

Grassroots-level youth unions have creatively implemented numerous digital transformation models, including the “Cashless Street” initiative launched by the Gia Phu commune Youth Union and the “Digital Knowledge House – Community Digital Library” developed on the Google Sites platform by the To Hieu ward Youth Union.

Integrating digital transformation into its activities and youth movements, the To Hieu ward Youth Union has established six quick-response youth teams to assist 4,000 Party members from 26 residential groups and hamlets in installing and successfully activating the “Electronic Party Member Handbook” app. It has also developed a youth project titled “Green Map – Digital Heritage.”

According to Trinh The Dung, Secretary of the ward Youth Union, the “Green Map – Digital Heritage” project was developed on the Google My Maps platform to digitise historical sites and revolutionary heritage locations, and provide updated information on local Party and administration agencies, the Vietnam Fatherland Front committees, schools, community cultural houses, residential groups and hamlets, as well as administrative boundaries in the ward. Through the digital map, users can easily look up the locations, images and information of individual sites on their smartphones via QR codes or links.

This summer, the Tay Bac University Youth Union established several teams of volunteers to participate in the “Digital Summer” programme. They guided local residents in activating Level-2 VNeID electronic identification accounts and assisted professional staff in Chieng Coi and Chieng Sinh wards and Chieng Mung and Tan Phong communes in reviewing, standardising and cleaning the land database.

According to Kieu Tien Luong, Secretary of the university’s Youth Union, the activities gave students an opportunity to apply their professional knowledge in practice, develop their skills, sense of responsibility and desire to contribute to building a digital society and a digital administration in the locality.

Over the past three months, youth unions at all levels across the province have implemented the “Digital Summer” programme, with 85 volunteer teams helping residents access digital applications; assisting communes and wards in reviewing, standardising and cleaning land databases; presenting computers to residents in Muong Coi commune; and providing training in digital technology applications for youth union members, young people and local agricultural producers in Chieng Coi and Phieng Pan communes. They have also organised five “Digital Literacy for All” classes, helping more than 1,500 residents, young people and children improve their digital skills; provided equipment, established a TikTok channel and inaugurated a professional livestreaming room for the Phieng Khoai commune Youth Union, among other activities.

When every youth union member becomes a communicator and digital skills instructor, and every youth union becomes a technology hub at the grassroots level, digital transformation can quickly spread in an effective and far-reaching manner. This is how Son La’s young people are turning their pioneering spirit into concrete action to build a digital administration and a digital society, while creating momentum for the sustainable development of their homeland./.