“China’s new government has vowed to ‘shed sunlight’ on its activities, and has slowly started down the path of providing open government data on a variety of subjects and at different levels of operation,” wrote Gregory Curtin, Founder of Civic Resource Group, in the Future of Government Smart Toolbox report.
The central government has provided open data at different levels of administration including the Chinese Government Public Information Online portal and the National Bureau of Statistics of China at the national level, the Dalian Province data site, Data Shanghai, and Data Beijing, Curtin noted.
The Chinese city of Qingdao launched its first open government portal in November 2013, which the government plans to make available to more than 30 cities across the country. “The Chinese government recently launched its first open government platform in Qingdao, a major city in Eastern China with a population of 8.7 million. The platform will be made available to other municipalities across China as well,” Curtin said.
“In addition to providing open data and one-stop access to public services, the platform is a step towards the city’s goal of becoming a smart city,” he added.
China was ranked 38th globally for online citizen involvement in decision-making in the recently released United Nations E-Government Rankings.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Medha Basu
Quelle/Source: futureGov, 30.06.2014
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