The Research On Market Development Model Of Government Public Information Resources In Shanghai

In a time of knowledge economy, there are three leading resources thatpromote the development of modern society: information resources, materialresources and energy. Information resources features in being non-expendable,non-exclusive, and low-carbon, and thus it plays a strategic role in the executionof industrial structural optimization and adjustment, economic developmentpattern transformation, and resources-friendly society establishment. In China,information resources has not been fully developed or utilized, althoughadministrations at all levels possess a large amount of it. As a result, the publicinformation resources in civil services has huge potential of increment. And thecore of e-government lies in the efficient manipulation of information resourcesin civil services. Consequently there is an urgent need to establish marketdevelopment models of government public information resources to meetChina’s booming information needs.Currently Shanghai is undergoing a crucial phase of social transformation, whilst the information resources industry is the strategic leading industryfacilitating the city’s economic structure upgrade and growth. This thesis papercentres around the market development models of government publicinformation resources. Based on value chain theory, the essay explores theirintrinsic values and then proposes principles of managing government publicinformation resources, i.e., the disclosure and supervision of the basicinformation should be based on the government while the development andutilization of the value-added information should be based on the market.Afterwards, the paper investigates several sessions of the industrial value chainto identify the major problems in the management and market development ofShanghai Municipal’s public information resources, using various methods suchas SWOT and empirical research survey. Going through national andinternational publications, the paper collects relevant cases of marketdevelopment of government public information resources of home and abroadand then summarizes the methods that worth studying and implementing. Basedon theoretical studies, empirical research and case studies, to fully exploit thevalue of government public information resources and promote the developmentof information service industry, the paper proposes suggestions on theestablishment of market development models of Shanghai Municipal’s publicinformation resources.