The Puzzledom And Outlet Of Community Informationization In Shanghai

Community informationization is the basis of municipalityinformationization. It is part of the drive to enable the masses to profit from informationization, as well as a vital way for the municipality to eliminate the digital gap and promote people's informationization awareness. In the process of promoting municipality informationization, the Shanghai municipality has laid out an initial plan on community informationization. Shanghai regards the application of IT in communities as an important measure to improve the efficiency of community service, to optimize community governing, to reform the government's management mode.However, in the past several years, the community informationization drive was not cost-efficient and the staff was overloaded due to the lack of information-sharing resulting from incompatibility among various governmental sections. The root lies in the fact the authorities had contradictive understanding on community informationization, the working mechanism was unscientific, the efforts were not coordinated. Consequently, the masses gained little from it and barely recognize the community informationization drive. It can be observed from the poor mechanism of promoting the community informationization, the low-level application of IT and the lukewarm reception of the community residents. What's more, the governmental staffs need to improve their capability. Therefore, to fulfil the task of community informationization, it is required to coordinate efforts, to promote the participation of society, to make the community...