Why can Canada's e-government achieve such achievements in a short time and be second to none in the global e-government construction? The reason for this is the following：
(a) careful planning, strict implementation, strict monitoring, all parties to cooperate.
As early as 1995, the Canadian government proposed? Make Canada the most interactive and interconnected country in the world? Has this grand goal been achieved? Connect to Canada? The strategic thinking of informatization development planning is to take e-government as the leading point and breakthrough point, promote the development of new economy such as e-commerce and information industry, and comprehensively enhance the national economic competitiveness. 1999, the Canadian government officially promulgated the national e-government strategic plan "Government Online", and proposed that the government should set an example in using information technology and the Internet. ? Government online? It is a huge systematic project, not only an information technology project, but also involves the innovation of government management and the adjustment of administrative management. Its service scope includes: providing information consultation, providing cooperation with various institutions, applying online, handling economic and technological promotion projects, implementing procurement plans, and implementing administrative supervision, among which a large number of businesses are mainly information services, business applications, and handling economic and technological promotion projects. Therefore, the government's online access is also an important measure to fully realize the modernization of government management. The successive implementation of e-government projects has provided a strong impetus for the modernization of federal government affairs, simplified government institutions and improved the ability of government affairs. Exactly, where was that? Take the nation as the core and provide responsible, better and more effective services? Under the purpose, government affairs has set up 35 subcategories of citizens, enterprises and international communication on the Internet, which basically meets the needs of citizens from birth, growth, education, work, medical insurance, social welfare, trade and communication with the world, including services from birth to death. Canadian citizens can feel the daily operation of the government and enjoy various services provided by the government from the online world anytime and anywhere. Government websites have become an important bridge between the government and the people.
According to the survey, 77% of Canadian citizens believe that Internet technology can improve the service quality of their government, and 73% of Canadian citizens support the government to use their taxes to promote their e-government. The e-government of the Canadian government has received positive response from the whole society and entered the track of rapid development.
(B) a solid foundation as the starting point of unique advantages
Canada's rapid development in a relatively short period of time has largely benefited from good basic implementation and research foundation.
(1) Canada claims to have the highest Internet access rate in the world. All major cities in China have high-speed data networks, and the Internet access fee is the lowest in the world.
(2) The national optical fiber network jointly built by the government and enterprises was completed and put into use in 2000. Canada's huge advantages in information infrastructure have laid a solid foundation for its development of e-government.
(3) Scientific research and teaching institutions pay attention to basic theoretical research, and some scientific research projects adopt the research method of cooperation with neighboring America. For example, a series of cutting-edge research has been carried out around the information management of e-government. The well-known project is the cooperation project between Canadian Columbia University and the US Department of Defense 1994- 1997? Protect the integrity of electronic documents? .
(C) In order to ensure the smooth progress of e-government, the Canadian government has promulgated relevant laws and regulations:
(1) Password Use Policy,199810/0/0 In October, the federal government promulgated an encryption policy on e-commerce to ensure the security of online transactions on the premise of safeguarding legal and national security. Any cryptographic system is allowed in China, and no compulsory decryption measures are taken.
(2) The guiding framework for protecting consumers' interests. The policy framework jointly drafted by the industrial and commercial departments aims to protect consumers' online business transactions.
(3) Privacy Protection Law. This C-54 legislative proposal put forward by the Federal Ministry of Industry aims to promote the coding system developed by the Canadian Standards Association and protect private online information.
(4) The legal framework of electronic signature. Submit legislation to Congress to formally recognize the legality of digital signatures and electronic documents.
(5) Policy framework for government departments to implement online operation. So as to ensure that all government departments can work online and relay safely.
(6) Standardize domestic and international e-commerce public network standards. 1In March, 1999, the Canadian Communication Standards Advisory Committee approved the standard framework of e-commerce, including the infrastructure, applications and transactions of e-commerce, for reference by the government in formulating corresponding standards and regulations.
(7) E-commerce tax policy framework. 1In May, 1999, the Internet Registration Authority of Canada drafted a report on the implementation of preferential tax policies for e-commerce.
These policies and regulations, together with the network infrastructure, provide a powerful network, technical and legal support platform for the application of e-government in Canada.
(d) Demand-oriented construction policy
Relying on the powerful function and good basic conditions of the Internet, Canada pays attention to the construction of government websites in the process of developing electronic services, aiming at different targets? The three major customer groups, namely enterprises, citizens and foreigners, have opened up three main entrances to provide demand-oriented user services. Taking the entrance of foreigners as an example, foreign students, businessmen, tourists and workers can find different information they need through the entrance of non-Canadian nationality and international customers.