The group responsible for China's e-government standards has sent a
trial directory and six related standards to all government
departments for evaluation in order to solicit suggestions.
E-government has been defined as the management of information
systems to serve the needs of government and the public and
involves every area of government information systems on a national
basis.
The proposals put forward by the group are the details of its
implementation, trial and evaluation; the standardization of
national digital information systems. In February 2002, the State
Council Informatization Office, together with the Standardization
Administration of China, established the "General Group of
E-government Standards."
The group has recently advanced its proposed system for
standardized e-government based on the results of related research.
The group has let it be known that those areas of greatest urgency
will be dealt with first.
With the approval of an initial evaluation by the group, the two
departments jointly issued a notice of probation for the directory
and six e-government standards as well as solicitation for
suggestions, and has sent it to all areas concerned, asking them to
evaluate it on the basis of a trial implementation project.
Feedback is requested for submission by the end of August in time
for its authorization.
Professor Huai Jinpeng from the Beijing University of Aeronautics
and Astronautics (BUAA) said that
having transformed from the earlier network system, China's new
information system aims to enhance the government's supervision
abilities and provide greater and more efficient response and
communication. At present, there is no integrated system.
The department leader for the application and promotion of the
State Council Informatization Office, Chen Xiaozhu, said the work
of e-government standardization would continue to adopt the
management method of "being guided by government and promoted by
the market," and to establish a dynamic maintained mechanism to
meet its practical application.
During promotion of the 12 project systems for e-government that
concern office operational resources, macro-economic management,
customs, taxation, finance, regulations, auditing, public security,
social security, agriculture, water resources and geological
resources, it is expected that the system will fully realize the
needs of national standardization as well as fully implement the
standardization of government e-solutions.
(China.org.cn by Zhang Tingting, April 4, 2003)