Sidebar: Why China Needs a Public CIO System

1. To push forward e-government initiatives in China
· Moving from government applications in one agency to cross-agency collaboration and integration.
· Moving from infrastructure to applications.

2. To improve the current e-government project management system
· The current system is fragmented; no one agency has overall responsibility across agencies - roles and responsibilities are unclear.
· The success of many e-government projects is based on the capability of one key person, not a management system.

Source: Wu Jiang, director, Chinese Academy of Personnel Science