Digital Government Transformation:Nature,Logic and Path

The new generation of technological revolution characterized by digitalization,cyberization,and intelligence is booming.The iterative development of new technologies and business formats has driven the dramatic change of social form and governance model.Human society is accelerating into the “VUCA Era”.Facing highly complex and uncertain policy issues,the bureaucracy-based government system suffers from management tool failure,organization structural failure,and institution rule failure.The digital government transformation’s essence is that in the context of the digital age,the government employs emerging technologies such as big data,cloud computing,blockchain,artificial intelligence and so on to improve decision-making,management and service capabilities,optimize the efficiency of public resource allocation,and continuously resolve uncertainty in complex systems.It is necessary to build a ubiquitous and intelligent digital infrastructure based on data terminals,internet,and cloud computing,a platform ecosystem that responds quickly and collaboratively,and a scientific,standardized,and collaboratively evolving rule system.Government needs to strengthen the digital governance capabilities from technology,organization,and institution aspects,thereby comprehensively improving the adaptability and agility of the government and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities.