Digital technology-driven smart society governance mechanism and practice exploration

doi:10.1007/s42524-022-0200-x

Front. Eng

2023, Vol. 10

Issue (2) : 319-338 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42524-022-0200-x

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Digital technology-driven smart society governance mechanism and practice exploration

Xiaohong CHEN¹, Xiangbo TANG²(

), Xuanhua XU¹

¹. Hunan University of Technology and Business, Changsha 410205, China; School of Business, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
². Hunan University of Technology and Business, Changsha 410205, China

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Abstract

A smart society is an advanced form of society following agricultural society, industrial society, and information society, with digital data processing system as its main carrier. However, the governance of a smart society still faces many challenges. In view of this problem, first, this research constructs a smart society governance modernization strategy. Second, the innovation mode of a society governance mechanism driven by digital technology is proposed, including the precise intellectual control of a digital twin, the intelligent ubiquitous sensing of the Internet of Things, the empowerment remodeling of a blockchain and the livelihood service of artificial intelligence. Third, this study systematically explores the practice of smart society governance modernization from the aspects of basic information platform construction, evaluation system construction, application demonstration of epidemic prevention and control driven by big data, support of spatial intelligence and artificial intelligence technology for people’s livelihood, smart campus, public resources, and data governance application demonstration to provide theoretical guidance for promoting digital technology innovation in the process of the governance of a smart society.

Keywords digital technology new infrastructure smart society governance system governance modernization

Corresponding Author(s): Xiangbo TANG

Just Accepted Date: 09 August 2022 Online First Date: 08 September 2022 Issue Date: 29 May 2023

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Xiaohong CHEN,Xiangbo TANG,Xuanhua XU. Digital technology-driven smart society governance mechanism and practice exploration[J]. Front. Eng, 2023, 10(2): 319-338.

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Fig.1 Society governance mechanism driven by digital technology.

Fig.2 Structure diagram of smart society platform construction.

First level indicators	Second level indicators	First level indicators	Second level indicators
Overall planning capability	Smart city coordination mechanism	Monitoring and early warning capability	Financial security monitoring and early warning capabilities
	Smart city management mechanism		Natural disaster monitoring and early warning capabilities
	Smart city infrastructure investment and construction capabilities		Production and economic safety monitoring and early warning capabilities
Coordination and linkage capability	Government service coordination and linkage ability		Urban ecological safety monitoring and early warning capabilities
	Ecological environment coordination and linkage ability		Urban traffic monitoring and early warning capabilities
	Coordinated development capabilities of industrial clusters		Network public opinion monitoring and early warning capabilities
Decision-making and command capability	Decision data service level		Public safety monitoring and early warning capabilities
	Big data intelligent analysis model level	Resource sharing capability	Public information platform construction level
	Decision support system construction level		Resource sharing database construction level
Implementation and execution capability	Consistency between urban development and planning level		The level of social opening and utilization of public information resources
	Policy service level		Sharing rate among information resource departments
	Public participation level	Emergency response capability	Perfection of emergency response mechanism
Security prevention and control capability	Coverage rate of safety prevention and control facilities		Emergency facilities coverage
	Construction level of safety prevention and control platform		Professional level of emergency team
	Degree of synergy of safety prevention and control systems		Emergency handling speed
	Data security prevention and control capabilities		Construction level of emergency platform for major emergencies

Tab.1 Smart society governance technology and capability modernization evaluation index system

Fig.3 Comprehensive score of 11 cities for smart society governance technology and capability modernization (Data source: Indicator statistics of relevant departments in each city in 2019).

Fig.4 Scores in all dimensions of the modernization of technologies and capabilities for smart society governance in 11 cities.

Fig.5 Refined zoning material supply service plan.

Fig.6 Smart campus behavior big data intelligent decision analysis system.

Fig.7 Blockchain technology system framework.

Fig.8 HOPE data sharing security platform based on blockchain technology (notes: DSL: Domain specific language; CA: Certificate authority; SGX: Software guard extensions).

Fig.9 Blockchain information browser technical framework (notes: EOS: Enterprise operation system; JSON RPC: JavaScript object notation remote procedure call).

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