The Study On The Information Audit In Government Departments

In today’s information world, the information resources are both in theory and in practicehave become the strategic resource in the organization. So, the information resources’ smanagement, development and utilization have become the primary tasks of the organization.With the improving of the understanding for importance of information resources, informationaudit has become an important way to the information management, and it is also animportant step in formulating strategic stage. However, information production, informationacquisition and information use are still very confused in organizations, that cause theinformation can not be used, and be wasted. Information audit is an effective method to solvethese problems. It is also has the similar problem in the government information management.The essay focus on the subject of information audit in government departments. Firstly,defines the concept of information audit, and also puts forward two kinds of basic theory forthe information audit, such as ‘based on the information lifecycle’ and ‘based on theinformation resource management’. Then, combined with two basic theories, and proposedthat information audit in government can be with the information lifecycle and informationresource management.Through it, we can sum up the main content for the information auditin government. Secondly, the author analyzes three aspects of government information audit,for instance the government information provider, disseminator and users, and list the basicframework of information audit. The government information provider is government itself,we can audit it from three aspects, such as information policy, information resourceconstruction and public servants’ information literacy. The government informationdisseminator is mainly information technology, and it contains the information infrastructuresand the application systems. The last one is government information users, which are citizensand the government itself. The author audits them about the situation of the interactionbetween the citizens and the government with government information. Finally, the papertakes Hebei province government website as the object for studying, take the empirical studyfor the information audit in government, help us to understand more intuitive and deeper forthe information audit in government.