Smart City Construction Needs to Open "Information Island"

Smart City is an effective integration of information technology and advanced urban management service concepts. It provides digital, networked management of geography, resources, environment, and economy of cities to provide more convenient, efficient and flexible public management innovation services for cities. mode. Through the investigation of related departments and local governments, it has been found that information sharing is the key to smart cities’ wisdom, and it is also the primary issue that local governments face in the actual construction and operation of smart cities. Therefore, the construction of a smart city requires the establishment of an “information island”!

At present, 154 cities in China proposed to build “smart cities” in the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, and 140 cities will be selected as pilots of state smart cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, etc. Information systems are independent of each other, and there are few integrated development and application of information resources. The phenomenon of information islands is widespread. For example, to register a company, you need to go to the industrial and commercial department to register, to the taxation of the State Taxation and Land Tax Offices, and then to the quality supervision department to organize the organization code, etc. In this process, a large amount of basic information such as the name and address of the company is repeated. Collection; through bank loans to purchase real estate, you need to go to the household registration management, housing management, provident fund management and other departments to issue a certificate for the loan bank to provide account, work unit certification, proof of income, provident fund deposit certificate and a series of documents. In this way, not only is the complexity of the procedures involved, data cannot be verified, and a great deal of data redundancy and waste of resources are also formed.

Information islands are an inevitable process of information construction. Information sharing is a key issue to be solved in the construction of smart cities.

The construction of urban informatization application is a gradual development process. From the perspective of the law of informatization construction, its implementation and application are not in one step, but are gradually established through a gradual process. In the initial stage, each department enters the relevant business information into the computer to realize the electronicization, and establishes an information system that provides a single service; in the intermediate stage, the local data within the department communicate with each other, and is built inside the department to provide part of information sharing and comprehensive information services. The information system forms an island of information; in the advanced stage, the information islands are connected organically, and a new integrated coordination mechanism and an information sharing platform providing comprehensive data services are built. Information islands are a necessary process for the city's informatization construction. Information sharing is the key to the application of urban informatization from the intermediate stage to the advanced stage. The construction of smart cities is the key period for the transition from the intermediate stage to the advanced stage of urban informationization. Therefore, information sharing is the most important issue to be solved in the construction of smart cities.

There are two main reasons for the existence of islands of information: On the one hand, the most direct reason is that under the influence of the division of departments, the information systems of all departments are self-contained, and they are mutually exclusive in terms of functions, information, and business processes. The database, operating system, application software, and user interface are managed by independent information centers or data centers. On the other hand, the most fundamental reason is that under the constraints of the management mechanism, the comprehensive development and utilization of information resources is relatively small. In-depth mining and analysis of urban basic data and integrated applications, to play a comprehensive application of information benefits.

With the maturation of technologies such as cloud computing, big data, and data format conversion, due to information silos caused by the division of divisions, the technical problems are often easily solved, and the problems of the management mechanism are more difficult to handle. The sharing and application of data between departments is actually the adjustment and transformation of the management model, involving the security of data and interests of various departments, and even the problems of the organizational structure of the government departments and the reorganization of work processes. There are certain difficulties in solving these problems. resistance. Therefore, the realization of information sharing requires not only technical support, but also more promotion from the management system and system, and forms a new type of management mechanism suitable for the construction and development of smart cities.

To achieve information sharing in smart cities, starting from coordinating related department information resources and establishing information sharing mechanisms.

First, establish a sound information resource management system. Clearly define the leading institutions or competent departments for the construction of smart cities, and the responsible departments should take the lead in streamlining the data and information of various departments and conduct unified management of information resources. At present, most local governments have adopted a leading group for the construction of a smart city, with the mayor or deputy mayor in charge of the team leader, and the relevant department leaders as team members to promote information sharing and smart city construction. For the consideration of long-term operation and management of smart cities, it is recommended that a comprehensive administrative department be defined to centralize the management of information centers and data centers of various departments, integrate information resources, and lead the work of smart city construction and application management.

Second, establish a scientific and reasonable information management system and standard system. The leading group or competent department of smart city construction shall strengthen the integration of information resources of various departments, establish a public database of standardized standards, and formulate and promote unified information technology standards for each department, and plan and unify the overall arrangement of information resources. At the same time, from the perspective of the overall operational benefits of the city, it will coordinate the various departments to clearly share data, report data, publish data, protect confidential data and exchange data, and ensure that all departments share and apply data.

Third, establish a public information service platform. The leading group or competent department of smart city construction must actively carry out data requirements research work, understand the needs of various departments and various groups of information resources, and establish a public information service platform according to their needs. At present, the information platforms that most local governments are building include public service information platforms (government portals), geospatial resource information platforms, educational resource information platforms, and industry transaction information platforms. At the same time, the information platform is used to achieve deep integration of information and data through classification, aggregation, and aggregation, and correlation analysis, cluster analysis, and series pattern analysis are used to realize information and data mining and application, and provide managers and decision makers with information. Scientific decision-making information and basis.

Fourth, establish an information security safeguard system. The leading group or competent department of smart city construction shall provide security guarantees for the integration and sharing of information resources, including the protection of identity authentication, access control management, data disaster recovery, and data supervision. First, we must establish an identity authentication and access control management system to provide security services such as identity authentication, access control, and security auditing for organizations and individuals engaged in related information work. Second, as soon as possible to carry out security visits to important networks, information systems, databases, evaluation work, and promote the in-depth application of digital certificates. Finally, we will further improve the information security coordination and supervision mechanism, accelerate the implementation of the information security rating protection system, implement the information security responsibility system, and establish a corresponding security and confidentiality management system.