Province a pilot for information sharing between govt departments
GUIYANG — “Grow up, bamboo shoots! Wake up, spring is coming,” recites a pupil at Yata Elementary School. The school is in a remote mountainous area of Southwest China’s Guizhou province, an area of significant poverty, with telephones only becoming available in recent years.
But now, via a cloud computing education system, students at the school can read the same books and listen to the same teachers as pupils at Xingyi Elementary School, the best school in Qianxinan, which is 100 kilometers away.
Gone are the days when the only teaching equipment at
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Yata was a blackboard and a box of chalk.
Guizhou is a pilot province for such cloud computing programs and the use of big data.
Currently, 36 government departments in the province, including the Guizhou Health and Family Planning Commission, and the Guizhou Department of Human Resources and Social Security, are using cloud computing and big data to provide better services to the public, especially in areas such as credit, transport and healthcare.
“With the opening of government data, government authorities can analyze public needs to provide better services to the general public,” said Tang Zhiwei, professor and dean of the school of political science and public administration at the University of Electronic Science and Tech- nology of China.
“In the past, residents had to go to government offices to handle administrative affairs. Now things can be done with just a few clicks of a mouse thanks to government data