E-Government and the CROWN Project

Wide deployment of e-government infrastructure is one of the major national projects in China. Significant progress has been made since the launch of this project in 2003. Three key issues have been extensively investigated. First, an efficient and reliable e-government platform should be constructed to avoid isolated information and application islands. Second, this project aims to establish a national uniform technical standard to avoid unnecessary investments and repetitive constructions. Third, an efficient mechanism should be designed for the industrialization of e-government in order to maximize benefit and provide a productive business model. In this talk, I will introduce current status of egovernment in China and major problems we have encountered. I’ll also discuss the future directions of China e-government project. This talk will also address an experimental environment for e-government research in our lab, CROWN (China R&D Environment Over Wide-area Network) project. A new model, protocol computing, is used in our design. I will focus on efficient and trustworthy network resource sharing and collaboration of the CROWN project.