Digital technology empower social governance innovation

Today, the update iteration, popularization and penetration of digital technology have profoundly influenced and changed people's value concepts, behaviors and production and life. The application of digital technology has built new scenes of social life, provided realistic support for the intelligent transformation of social governance, and shaped the social governance model of the new technology era. How to effectively promote digital technology to empower social governance innovation is an important topic in front of the academic field.

Digital technology integrates social life

In recent years, my country has accelerated construction with new development concepts as a leading, technological innovation as a driver, and based on information networks, facing the needs of high -quality development, to provide services such as digital transformation, intelligent upgrade, and integration innovation. The rapid development provides strong support, and has also brought new opportunities for the innovation of social governance models.

In February 2022, the "49th China Internet Development Statistics Statistics Report" released by the China Internet Information Center showed that as of December 2021, the size of netizens in my country reached 1.032 billion, ranking first in the world, with an Internet penetration rate of 73.0%. This not only marks the arrival of my country's online society and digital society, but also provides a strong social foundation for the development of digital government affairs.

The vigorous development of the digital economy and digital society has made the integration of digital countryside and smart cities into the focus of the construction of new urban and rural relations in the digital era. Chen Tan, dean of the School of Public Management of Guangzhou University, said that the rise and development of digital technology not only promoted the mining, enlarged and utilization of urban and rural social resources, but also helped push the traditional urban and rural economic development relationship, policy assignment relationship, cultural conceptual relationship and governance space The deconstruction and reconstruction of the relationship. Building digital China, eliminating digital gaps, and promoting urban and rural integration and development with digital practice are the key links to promote the coordinated development of urban progress and rural revitalization.

Modernization of social governance is an important part of the modernization of national governance, and it is also the deserved meaning of promoting the co -construction and sharing social governance pattern. The widespread application of digital technology in social governance has enabled the contemporary Chinese social governance system to appear a new technological support force. Xiang Jinglin, an associate researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that on the one hand, digital technology has unique instrumental value, and its integration into the social governance system will help solve the problems of systematic governance, comprehensive governance, and source governance. On the other hand, digitalization does not mean that as long as it has digital technology, the goal can be achieved. Digital technology application is a social implementation process. Due to the influence of the institutional environment, organizational mechanism and social foundation, it needs to interact with traditional governance elements. In his opinion, whether digital technology can be deeply integrated with traditional governance elements, which directly affects the actual results of digital transformation of social governance.

Improve the intelligent level of social governance

my country attaches great importance to the construction of digital government. From "advancing the construction of digital governments" to "strengthening digital society and digital government construction", it profoundly reflects the state's awareness of data empowerment of state governance. Di Kai, the chief expert of Guangdong Social Governance Research Base and deputy director of the Public Management Teaching and Research Department of the Party School of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee (Guangdong Academy of Administration), told reporters that information infrastructure is the foundation of social intelligence. We must stand at the height of the construction of the digital economy, digital governments, and digital society, carry out systematic planning, combine the construction of smart cities, and continue to promote the digitalization of traditional infrastructure in the fields of transportation, logistics, medical care, education, agriculture and other fields. Innovation is a new infrastructure system that drives digital transformation, intelligent upgrade, and integration of innovation based on information networks.

In Xiang Jinglin, digital technology effectively improves the level of social governance intelligence in three aspects. First, it helps to establish connectivity between subjects, enterprises, people and other subjects, and provide technical carriers, channels, and mechanisms for co -construction and co -governance sharing; Source, information tools, and information security guarantee; third is to provide new opportunities, new ideas and new methods for social governance to deal with complexity issues, which helps to form a straightforward and complicated governance concept and predict early warning.

Adhere to the correct value orientation

The widespread application of digital technology in social governance will not only help improve the level of social governance, but also bring a series of non -expected consequences. Therefore, we need to build a solid basic environment and effective restraint space for digital transformation of social governance. Xiang Jinglin believes that this not only needs to cultivate the corresponding institutional system, organizational mechanism and digital literacy, consolidate the basic environment of digital technology applications, but also build a benign interactive mechanism for government, platforms, society, and multi -level technical protection and social intervention The mechanism forms effective restraint space for digital technology applications.

Digital technology itself is not enough to ensure the legality, rationality and effectiveness of social governance. Dai Kai said that we must get out of the loss of rational rational tools and the misunderstanding of technical leadership, return technology to the logical starting point of social governance services, and adhere to the people -centered value orientation.

The application of digital technology, while empowering the efficiency of social governance, also brings risks and challenges to the security of the social system, such as the problem of personal privacy leakage, digital gap problems, data security issues, and network violations. In this regard, Dai Kai believes that we must build a concept of security, adhere to the combination of technical application and risk prevention and control, fully tap data value and application potential, and focus on the forward -looking prevention and strategic control of technical risks to ensure national data security and public information. Safe, personal privacy and safety.

Promoting the digital transformation of national and social governance is the general trend and the heavy responsibility of the times.Of course, no matter at the theoretical and practical level, digital governance construction is in the start -up stage. It is also necessary to conduct in -depth exploration and active development in the fields of digital governance technology innovation and theoretical innovation to better promote the healthy development of digital society.

Source: China Social Science Network-Journal of Social Sciences of China

Author: Li Yongjie

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