E-government And Government Reinvention

The coining of the information age, together with the development of information technology, widens the thought of government reform, and provides it with unprecedented opportunities and impetuses. In the world's view, it is a growing trend to reengineer the government in the process of informationalization, which means to push forward the government to handle official business in an automatic, internet-oriented, electronic, and informational way.The theme of this paper is to promote government organization, reshuffle public administration, and enhance administration efficiency through the application of information technology, so as to offer the people wider information and more convenient service.This paper falls into four sections: in the first section, a detailed analysis of its background is made for the E-government development in our country and abroad, which indicates the necessity and difficulty of our government to propel the E-government development. In the second, author points out that the development of E-government is challenging and has influence on the previous government administration. So the further progress will depend on the government reengineering. Third, the relation of the government reengineering and E-government is analysed in another way. It is demonstrated that government reengineering is indispensable for the E-government advance. Meanwhile, it is proved by retrospecting the development of E-government abroad. At last, the author tried to bring up some constructive proposals about government reengineering goal, principles and procedures, which exist in the development of E-government in our country.