China declares a new era of digitization has begun
(2022/03/18)
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China's president Xi Jinping has declared "there can be no modernization without informatization,” and outlined a strategy for how the world's most populous nation will use information technology to transform society and government.
A [1]document posted by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) quotes Xi as saying "informatization has brought a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to the Chinese nation" and outlines a range of digital transformation tasks that must be achieved under the 14th five year plan (2021–2026) to achieve the desired level of digitization.
One development touted as enabling Chinese society to reach its next level of digitization is the creation of a "one card" which will expand on China's [2]existing digital social security card that serves in employment and social insurance matters. The proposed card will add integration of government services, medical and drug purchases, subsidy management and more.
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The plan is for the card to run on a mooted "big platform" that uses blockchain and extensive data sharing to link government applications such as social security, the labor market, and health services.
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A single portal for accessing government digital services is also envisioned.
To further tap digital potential, the country will rely on big data – which China also intends to improve, according to the document. Improvement will come in the form of collection and aggregation, sharing, and digitizing historical data to form a national unified application resource.
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These electronic libraries are imagined to provide services like data comparison, status verification, identification pictures and trend analysis, with data shared across departments and businesses.
The last two goals are to improve the service levels and security of newly integrated digital systems, and thereby encourage citizens to use more online services.
Beijing wants all of this accessed with a network security protection system that adapts to the times – offering peerless data security and personal privacy.
[7]FCC gives Pacific Networks 60 days to leave the US
[8]China's internet regulator squeezes famously freewheeling Reddit-alike
[9]Mobile-based ID wallets for government are coming
[10]EU Data Protection Board probes public sector use of cloud
The CAC had a busy Thursday, as it also warned it would continue its crackdown on [11]livestreamers – the infomercials that have become a big feature of Chinese e-commerce. Those who falsify viewer counts for sales data will be punished, while people paid to ghost write online comments or set up online rumors will face deeper scrutiny. Meanwhile banned livestreamers who are judged by the CAC to flaunt social norms will be prevented from returning to their platforms.
The CAC flagged that it is planning to look more closely not only at those who game the algorithms for their own nefarious benefit, but also at the algorithms themselves. It is indeed a brave new world. ®
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[1] http://www.cac.gov.cn/2022-03/17/c_1649124768926971.htm
[2] http://english.www.gov.cn/state_council/ministries/2018/04/23/content_281476121947138.htm
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[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/17/fcc_pacific_networks_comnet/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/16/douban_rectification/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/24/gartner_top_10_gov/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/15/edpb_cloud/
[11] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/20220317/ec2deab81bf14fceb9ce904ccfd14e13/c.html
[12] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
A [1]document posted by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) quotes Xi as saying "informatization has brought a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to the Chinese nation" and outlines a range of digital transformation tasks that must be achieved under the 14th five year plan (2021–2026) to achieve the desired level of digitization.
One development touted as enabling Chinese society to reach its next level of digitization is the creation of a "one card" which will expand on China's [2]existing digital social security card that serves in employment and social insurance matters. The proposed card will add integration of government services, medical and drug purchases, subsidy management and more.
[3]
The plan is for the card to run on a mooted "big platform" that uses blockchain and extensive data sharing to link government applications such as social security, the labor market, and health services.
[4]
[5]
A single portal for accessing government digital services is also envisioned.
To further tap digital potential, the country will rely on big data – which China also intends to improve, according to the document. Improvement will come in the form of collection and aggregation, sharing, and digitizing historical data to form a national unified application resource.
[6]
These electronic libraries are imagined to provide services like data comparison, status verification, identification pictures and trend analysis, with data shared across departments and businesses.
The last two goals are to improve the service levels and security of newly integrated digital systems, and thereby encourage citizens to use more online services.
Beijing wants all of this accessed with a network security protection system that adapts to the times – offering peerless data security and personal privacy.
[7]FCC gives Pacific Networks 60 days to leave the US
[8]China's internet regulator squeezes famously freewheeling Reddit-alike
[9]Mobile-based ID wallets for government are coming
[10]EU Data Protection Board probes public sector use of cloud
The CAC had a busy Thursday, as it also warned it would continue its crackdown on [11]livestreamers – the infomercials that have become a big feature of Chinese e-commerce. Those who falsify viewer counts for sales data will be punished, while people paid to ghost write online comments or set up online rumors will face deeper scrutiny. Meanwhile banned livestreamers who are judged by the CAC to flaunt social norms will be prevented from returning to their platforms.
The CAC flagged that it is planning to look more closely not only at those who game the algorithms for their own nefarious benefit, but also at the algorithms themselves. It is indeed a brave new world. ®
Get our [12]Tech Resources
[1] http://www.cac.gov.cn/2022-03/17/c_1649124768926971.htm
[2] http://english.www.gov.cn/state_council/ministries/2018/04/23/content_281476121947138.htm
[3] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_software/front&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YjRmYwuyCOTOxR3TGMsbUwAAAAU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
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[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/17/fcc_pacific_networks_comnet/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/16/douban_rectification/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/24/gartner_top_10_gov/
[10] https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/15/edpb_cloud/
[11] http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/20220317/ec2deab81bf14fceb9ce904ccfd14e13/c.html
[12] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
Re: "Informatization" (yuck)
Neil Barnes
Well indeed. I appreciate that English is not his first language, but you'd think he'd have some sort of advisors on his PR staff...
Paul Crawford
Is it just me that sees this as an ID card system to control people in every aspect of their digital lives just in case they get any ideas not in keeping with the CCP?
Andy The Hat
"...network security protection system that adapts to the times – offering peerless data security and personal privacy."
That politically translates as your life at our behest. Just add currency to the card, eliminate cash and the single card means the state can control everything from housing to drugs to telephones or internet access at the tap of a key and, more importantly, relate all the data including some physical movements using RFID.
Big data - controlling governments love it ...
"no modernization without informatization"
Pascal Monett
And no informatization without Xi watching over all of it.
No thank you.
"Informatization" (yuck)
According to Google, that translates as 信息化 (pronounced Xìnxī huà), which, if you ask your device to say it, sounds more melifluous than the jawbreaking English buzzword.