The Study Of Chinese E-government Performance Measurement

The purpose of modern government is to supply fine and effectiveservices for citizens and societies and it aims to improve governmentperformance. So as an effective tool of management, GovernmentPerformance Measurement is highly concerned in the public administrationfield. In general, though our country's practice of Government PerformanceMeasurement has been gradually developing and caught the sights of peopleat all levels, there still exists some problems that need settling. With the quick development of IT, especially computer technologymixing with communication technology, human society has entered into aninformation age. IT is now promoting the transform of productive force withits vigorous life force, and bringing out the transform between productiverelationship and super structure. As an outcome of IT, e-government is highlyvalued by governments of all of the countries. In the theory, the developmentof e-government supplies a super technical support for the scientification andthe modernization of government management. And it will reach its farinfluence into the transform of government function, the improvement ofgovernment of efficiency, the scientification of government policy decision,the prospect of government affairs, the economy of government experiencesand so on. Based on the various superiorities displayed in the course of governmentreform and promotion of government performance, e-government hasn'tincreasingly become only the major way of the operation of moderngovernment, but the important means that governments achieve itsmanagement and service function as well. Moreover, that whethere-government can achieve the anticipated effects has been the problem thateach country or each government pays close attention to through a large scaleof investment and construction. It can be said that self-measurement ofe-government, to some extent, is becoming an important part of governmentperformance. So the measurement on e-government becomes theindispensable part of its composition. Even to say that its measurement has 44become the most direct means to measure government performance. If viewed from our country's construction of e-government and theprocess of government on net at the moment, its situations worth beingworried a lot. There are some local governments, which invested thousandsand millions to set up websites that lack people's concerns. And thesenetworks have become the split and isolated island of information one afteranother. Such e-government, though it's called the first rate, is inevitable tobe considered as a project of political achievement wasting money andmanpower that its real effect is far more distant than that expected, the basicreason for which is because it lacks the advanced government measurementsystem that is identical with e-government operation. Therefore,e-government measurement system is demanded to maintain the nationalsecurity and interests, to encourage government to launch rational strategiesand policies, and to lead service providers to develop strategies, and gainmore profits from large investments. For this reason, it has a very importanttheoretical and practical significance to measure e-government performanceand set up e-government performance element system. The success of e-government performance measurement lies in theconstruction of measurement element system. In order to better regulate andcarry out China's e-government, the government must use the advancedexperiences of the developed countries' e-government performancemeasurement and summarize our country's e-government performancemeasurement lessons. Meanwhile, it's necessary to have a foothold ofnational conditions and set a set of scientific and rational e-governmentperformance measurement element system by starting from the facts. Ourcountry should follow the following principles of e-government performancemeasuremen...