China's Ethnic Autonomous Local Government Information Research

The ethnic autonomous area government informatization is a phenomenon of a government management under the conditions of the global information technology involved in the ethnic autonomous local government management activities. Specifically, the autonomous area government informatization is a series of policy measures to achieve and development process, with which the governments of the autonomous areas, under the overall strategic framework of the national informatization, use information technology, combine with the ethnic composition of the ethnic culture and administrative environment to carry out the level and lower-level governments and their departments informatization and lead the local information construction.From the point of view of information technology, there are no differences on technical methods, tools and equipment between the ethnic autonomous area government informatization and the nonautonomous government informatization. However, due to the particularity of the ethnic autonomous area governments, the ethnic autonomous area government informatization has its own characteristics, the specific content and stage of development is lagging behind. The technical, political and ethnic characters are the origin features of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization, public and asynchronous characters are derived features. The central government, the higher levels of government and the ethnic autonomous areas government itself are the main body of the the ethnic autonomous arer government informatization. The information infrastructure, e-government intranet and extranet, government websites, ethnic work, and ethnic resource informatizati and so on, are the objects of the ethnic autonomous ares government informatizatin. From a practical point of view, the ethnic autonomous area government informatization is not fully synchronized between the different ethnic autonomous area governments, and there is relatively backward compared with the nonautonomous local government. Overall, the application of separate computers, the ethnic resources informatization and the construction of government extranet, especially the construction of government websites are main stage of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization.The ethnic autonomous area government informatization has a unique internal mechanism. First, from the perspective of technical mechanisms, the function of the government informatization at the ethnic autonomous area is greater than the nonautonomous area, especifically in the network structure, information exchange rate, cost and revenue. Second, from the perspective of non-technical mechanism, the central government will have been controlling the ethnic autonomous area government informatization via the choice of information technology and information policy formulation. The economic development of the ethnic autonomous area, the negative effects of the ethnic area autonomy system, the lagging informatization of the ethnic languages, the ethnic traditional culture, especially the ethnic psychology are the contraints for the ethnic autonomous area government informatization. Finally, there are profoundly interactive relationships between the political, ethnical and technical features of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization. In the context of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization, the interactive relationship between the political and ethnical features performances an "Integration Diversification" interaction, the interactive relationship between the technical and ethnical features performances a "form-content" interaction, and the interactive relationship between the political and the technical features performances a "person computer" interaction. Based on the above interactive relationship, this article further believes that the three aspects of the political, ethnical and technical features of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization constitute a more stable "triangle" structure, and ignoring any aspect are likely to produce a variety of negative consequences.The ethnic autonomous area government informatization influencing factors are very complex. This article follows an idea of "environment-factors-elements" to expand and analysis those comparatively important factors. From the domestic environmental point of view, there are substance and economic factors, political and legal factors, demographic and cultural factors, ethnical resources factors, information technology factors, security factors and geographic traffic factor. From the international environmental point of view, there are cross-border ethnic factors, technological advantage factor and cyberspace factor. Based on the on the internal mechanism of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization in former chapter, furtherly, this article analyzes and discusses those important elements, such as management system, promotive policies, information literacy, personnel and team, cross-national ethnic group, foreign technical dominant, international cyberspace and foreign security threats.Either the internal mechanism or the administrative ecological environment of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization shows that the overall features of the structural and systemic. So that, the ethnic autonomous government informatization has many specific functions. And those functions are to play a role in many aspects and levels, which can be divided into four main areas, such as technical functions, cultural functions, economic functions and political functions. The technical functions include mainly sharing of government information, disclosuring of government information and improving the government responsibility. The cultural functions include mainly updating the government cultural, guiding the network culture and spreading the ethnical culture. The economic functions include mainly enhancing internal performance, improving the external benefits and alleviating poverty via informatization. The political functions include mainly promoting government reform, activating government process reengineering and enhancing the capability of the public administration.The ethnic autonomous area government informatization is an important part of China’s government informatization. Its status and problems contain not only the commonality of China’s government informatization, but also its own individuality, not only the longitudinal commonality but also the horizontal individuality of the ethnic autonomous government level, which is a combination of commonality and individuality. The status of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization is summarized as follows:the foundational projects called "two-network, one-website, four-database, eighteen-gold" have been performancing longitudinally in the ethnic autonomous area, government informatization has become a policy requirement, information skills is required to become a personnel system, document exchange systems are to become a practical consensus, and the construction of government websites become a trend. The common problems of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization consist of:the inconsistent recognization of the government informatization in ethnic area, unbalanced level of the informatization, concentration on construction and neglection on application, scarcity of personnel and the loss of personnel. This article further believes that the lack of top-down design is the main problem of the autonomous regional government informatization, the problems of ethnical information collection standard is the main problem of the autonomous prefecture government informatization. and the problems of the autonomous county government informatization are depentancy on the higher levels of government, the lower level informatization, less information being pushed to the grass-roots users, and so on.The construction of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization relates to various aspects of the value orientation, mode selection, system design, culture and the shaping of the internet culture. First, the ethnic autonomous area government informatization should adhere to the value orientation of the service. The service orientation has specific content, way and significance. In construction and management mode choice for building content, different form of outsourcing should be selected, such as innovative outsourcing, process outsourcing and hybrid outsourcing. Second, the building framework and focus on content include six systems. Those are the basic support system, the public service system, administrative management system, the standards system, security system, and laws and regulations system, among which, the ethnic resources informatization is the important aspect of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization. The ethnical language informatization and its specialized personnel training has also become the basic conditions of the ethnic autonomous area government governance of cyberspace and network frontier. Third, the relevant systems design, and the synchronic and diachronic functions of them should also be concerned about. To concern about the diachronic function is the requirement of the leapfrog development of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization. Meanwhile, the design of the system requires the legislative support of the people’s congresses, technical support of IT department and ethnical guidance of ethnic affair commission. Finally, the cultural construction of the ethnic autonomous area local government and network culture governance is mission of the ethnic autonomous area government informatization construction in the information era. The ethnic autonomous area government information cultural construction is not only the government cultural requirements of the times, but also its functional requirements. Autonomous local government staff in information literacy is the main aspect of the information culture. The network culture governance is not only the political government function, but also the cultural management functions, and its governance model has specific content.In short, as an important part of the China’s government informatization, the ethnic autonomous area government informatization has the particularity that is different from the nonautonomous area government informatization. The particularity is not entirely done by the ethnic groups themselves. It is the result of complex elements, which include the domestic and foreign factor, technical and political factors, local and national factors, etc. The informatization of the ethnic language and literal is not only an ethnical issue, technical issues, but also a political issue. The informatization of the ethnic language and literal and its completeness is the only way for ethnic equality under conditions of informatization. Nowadays, in the situation of accelerated pace of global informatization, the ethnic autonomous area government informatization has great political significance in the construction of a multi-ethnic country like China.