Cloud computing or e-government public service platform Construction Navigator

In February 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information technology released the "cloud-based e-government public platform Top Design Guide" (hereinafter referred to as "the Guide"). Immediately, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in Shaanxi convened the national local E-government public platform top-level design work symposium, embarked on the nationwide promotion of e-government public platform top-level design.

As soon as the guide has been promulgated, it has aroused wide concern of government departments at all levels, and the main reason is that it combines the advanced technology of cloud computing with the overall idea of top design, and faces the problems of resource integration and sharing in the process of intelligent city and E-government construction, It points out a feasible way for the construction of E-government public service platform.

On the construction of government affairs cloud

For a long time, the integration and sharing of information system resources has been a chronic disease of e-government construction. In recent years, with the rise of intelligent city, this problem has become a "new" topic for the construction of Intelligent city. Whether it is e-government construction, or intelligent city construction, which is closely related to the government informatization of the construction model is not on a white paper painting, should be in the existing information construction results and levels, based on the full use of hardware, software, data resources, for reference, summing up the experience of early construction, In order to carry out construction at a higher level.

, Intelligent city "Information Island" Universal existence

At present, China has 154 cities in the "Twelve-Five" plan to build a "smart city", 140 cities will be shortlisted for the National Intelligent City pilot, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, and so on, but most cities have to face the problem is that the urban departments of the information systems are independent of each other, In the development and application of information system resources, the phenomenon of information island is ubiquitous.

, e-Government "compartmentalization" problem outstanding

The electronic government affairs, the project construction funds diverse sources, has the NDRC's project, the Ministry of Finance's Administrative fund, the Science and Technology department's special Fund and so on, each line has each line the management request, the electronic government affairs construction has not formed the unified management system at the national level.

According to the layout of e-government system construction in various ministries, the information construction of various ministries is carried out under a decentralized system, a Ministry of "gold" Word project, a office, Hall, Bureau, a number of information systems, eventually resulting in the national E-government information Islands, duplication of construction, longitudinal weak and other problems. The more information input of various ministries, the higher the information barriers formed, which seriously affected the investment efficiency and output results of e-government.

, Cloud computing Resources Integration utility encounters mechanism bottleneck

As far as technology is concerned, cloud computing technology can promote the integration and sharing of higher level of information system resources. However, in the process of intelligent city construction and e-government implementation, subject to the mechanism constraints, cloud computing technology can only be used as a complementary technology, a test technology in the local scope of application, its role is more reflected in the existing information systems to repair limited, the potential and advantages of cloud computing technology can not be fully developed.

More and more problems, the impact of more and more, information system resources integration and sharing problems have to solve the time. In the practice of problem solving, management has realized that this problem is not only a technical problem, but also a management problem, which needs to be integrated and planned from the top level. In this context, the "cloud-based E-government public platform for the top design Guide" timely introduction.

A new approach to the construction of government affairs cloud

Fully understanding the ideas expressed in the guide, grasping the essence of the guide, is conducive to better guide the construction of E-government.

, the guide clearly identifies the design path of the "top-level design"

The top design of E-government has long been called for in the industry, how to do "top-level Design", the Guide proposes methods and paths. First, the design of public platform should be closely combined with the development of e-government to guide the implementation and application of e-Government public platform. Second, demand-oriented, system framework and service function design to meet the needs of various government departments. Third, to take the benefit as the fundamental, must propose the electronic government affairs public platform to reduce the construction and the operation cost, enhances the infrastructure utilization rate the quantification goal, guarantees the construction and the application obtains the result. In addition, the Guide proposes the implementation of the top-level design: We should make clear the construction principle, the implementation steps and the system measures of the public platform of e-government, ensure that the top design can be implemented, define the construction, operation, service and management mechanism of the e-Government public platform, perfect the information security management measures, ensure the platform sustainable development and so on.

, the guide's comprehensive interpretation of the "public platform" mechanism of action

Since the proposed top-level design, why the public platform as a carrier? The guide describes the mechanism of the public platform. The guide points out that the e-Government public platform is the integrated use of existing computing resources, storage resources, network resources, information resources, application support and other resources and conditions, unified construction and provide the government departments with infrastructure, supporting software, application functions, information resources, Operational security and information security services such as the integrated E-government service platform. From the concept that embodies the use of e-government public platform. In addition, the guide describes in detail the role of public platforms, firstly, the platform will realize the separation of data and business system from the carrying technology environment, that is, the construction and improvement of the data and business system based on the public platform of E-government, which no longer need to build, update and upgrade the technical environment separately. Secondly, the unified platform for all departments to achieve government affairs, business objectives to provide public technical environment and service support. Furthermore, it meets the needs of cross-regional, cross-sectoral, cross level information sharing and the combination of industry system and local application. It can be said that the public platform from the construction of software and hardware, deployment to the use of information resources and security maintenance, have done a comprehensive design and arrangements to avoid similar to the previous isolated construction of information island phenomenon, is conducive to information system resources integration and sharing, and promote the business process reengineering and optimization.

, the guide emphasizes the technological advantages of "cloud computing"

The guide has made a full affirmation of the value of cloud computing, and it is the cloud computing technology that makes it possible to share and integrate e-government information system resources. The guide mentioned that the full use of cloud computing virtualization, high reliability, versatility, high scalability and other advantages, the use of existing e-government infrastructure to build and improve e-government public platform, support the development of various departments, promote Cross-regional, cross-sectoral, cross-level information sharing. It is embodied in "the separation of data and business system from the technology environment", "realization of basic information sharing and unification", "realization of infrastructure and resource sharing", "provision of public technical environment and service support". The potential and advantages of cloud computing technology will be further realized under the guidance of the Guide, and promote the sharing and integration of e-Government information system resources.

Some suggestions on the construction of government affairs cloud

The timely introduction of the guide provides an effective guideline for the construction of government affairs informatization, but these guidelines need to be translated into real work impetus, and the government departments at all levels should fully combine their own development needs to implement the local conditions. To this end, we propose the following:

, the top layer design as the hand, do a good job planning

Technical aspects, it is important to buckle the system architecture covered in the guide, infrastructure services, supporting software services, application function services, information resource services, information security services, application deployment, operational security services and service implementation of the nine aspects of the design, based on the information practice of the Unit, The paper analyzes the requirements of information construction in the next few years, refines the common law of the design field, chooses, refines and deepens the stipulations in the guide, and constructs the whole technical framework from the top.

Management, to learn from the past "easy planning, difficult to implement" lessons, the implementation of the Organization as the most important management security measures to grasp the reality. The executing agency is the organization that truly provides the e-government public service, bears the responsibility of building, operating and managing the electronic government affairs public platform, and is the key of the overall plan implementation. Therefore, whether it is a separate form of government departments, or entrust a third party to assume this role, should be defined in the planning.

Implementation, the courage to break the fragmented system, in a complete horizontal resource integration and sharing planning, based on a single government departments to start the pilot, the initial success of the other government departments to carry out horizontal expansion, the operation is mature and then to all the parallel government departments to promote, Finally, it extends to the subordinate government departments and carries on the platform docking with the superior government departments.

, with the construction of E-government public platform as the focus, step-by-step

The guide tells us that building a unified e-government public platform is the only means to solve the problem of resource integration, but also the key to E-government and intelligent city construction in the next few years, however, this work can not be achieved overnight, first easy after difficult, progressive progress is this work to uphold the basic principles of progress.

E-Government public platform is a comprehensive platform, it can be seen as a hardware public platform, software public platform, data public platform, security public platform, the common platform of the operation of the composite platform. The construction unit can start from the building of the hardware public platform, integration of computing resources, storage resources and network resources, forming a hardware resource pool and building a good hardware public platform. On the basis of the hardware public platform, the architecture of supporting software for SOA is built, the basic capability components and the business capability components are planned, and the application deployment platform, publishing platform and management platform are built. On the basis of the software and hardware public platform, we can further sort out the government information resource catalogue, formulate the basic database of the government affairs, the standard of subject library, construct the data exchange and sharing system and match the corresponding supporting tools, and finally form the data public platform. In the process of building hardware, software and data public platform, the construction unit should build a safe public platform and operate public platform according to the need.

, cloud computing technology as the core means, the full spread

Cloud computing technology is a new generation of information technology in the core technology, it completely covers the hardware, software, data technology architecture level, not only can solve the user's business problems, but also for users to bring resource integration, dynamic deployment, on-demand use, energy saving, such as a series of centralized management benefits. Therefore, in the process of building e-Government public platform, the construction unit should combine the realistic demand with the technical characteristics of cloud computing, find a good balance point, neither advance construction nor limit the potential of future cloud technology. The best example of this is the question of how to choose a PAAs platform in the application support layer.

In short, through the "guide" to draw up the overall planning, and then in the overall planning of the E-government public platform to determine work objectives and key tasks, while giving full play to the advantages of cloud computing technology, a new round of e-government construction will certainly have a bright prospects.