Study On The Information Mechanisms Of The Government Dealing With Public Crisis

The public crisis is a disaster which human being suffers from, destroying thenormal social order, threatening the life of the citizens and the property security,affecting the power of the government or organization. Therefore, we should carry onthe public crisis management, trying our best to reduce the human tragedy, controllingthe crisis further spread, trying our best to control it after the situation is out ofcontrol. The public crisis management is the basic function of government, the abilityof the public crisis management is the important standard to evaluate the governmentperformance, the government takes the supplier of the public service, the communitypolicy decision maker, public affairs superintendent and the public authority exerciser,plays a important part the crisis management. Along with the rapid development ofthe modem information technology, the human society has already entered into aninformation society where the government becomes the main body of the publicmanagement, how to handle various public crisis is the most important and urgentquestion at all levels of government.The information puts the absolutely dominant position in the process ofgovemment dealing with the public crisis. In the crisis incubation period, the accuratecollection of the crisis information is very important to the crisis early waming. In thecrisis explosion period, the effective communication of crisis information may reducethe harms which the crisis brings. At the crisis restoring and reconstruction time, thepropaganda and public of the crisis management achievements information, has thepositive significance to the social structure adjustment. Therefore it can be seen, thegovernment, as the main body of the public crisis management, whether rapidlyresponses to the crisis, and controls the crisis, eliminates the crisis effectively, thecomplete effective information management mechanism is playing the key role. Thepublic crisis information mechanism is the program which depends on the publiccrisis carrying on the organizational structure and the reciprocity forms, is thesafeguard to carry on smoothly the public crisis, by undertaking the organization system which the information management organization and personnel and the rulesand regulations affects mutually forms.The importance of the effective information mechanism has been accepted in theprocess of government dealing with the public crisis by more and more people. Basedon this, according to the domestic and foreign multitudinous scholars on the publiccrisis management, the paper proposes that the information mechanism of thegovernment to deal with the public crisis, it includes early information warningmechanism, information communication mechanism and information managementmechanism.