A Logical Analysis Of Technological Empowerment In Rural Governance

On February 5,2018,the General Offices of the General Office of the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council issued the Three-year Action Plan for Renovating Rural Human Settlements,which clearly stated that improving rural human settlements and building beautiful and livable villages is an important task to implement the rural revitalization strategy,which is related to building a well-off society in an all-round way,the fundamental well-being of farmers and the civilization and harmony of rural society.Renovation of rural human settlements has always been a hot issue in academic research,with the main research focus on the problems,countermeasures,suggestions and action paths in the process of renovation.However,as a grass-roots renovation action with integrity and universal nature,rural environmental renovation action must have multiple help paths to promote its development,and the environmental renovation action will be made into a big one.Studying it from a holistic and programmatic perspective may not be able to spy out the internal mechanism of the renovation action.At the same time,the rural human settlements improvement action should be regarded as a representative case of the transformation from rural governance to modernization,and how to activate the villagers’ subjective consciousness during the improvement action and realize the cooperative governance model between the government and the people should be deeply explored.Therefore,based on the analysis of how the application of rural technology affects the improvement process of rural human settlements,this paper discusses how rural technology empowerment promotes the development of human settlements sanitation improvement at three levels: mobilizing villagers’ participation,building village community awareness and boosting the interaction between cadres and masses.By analyzing and refining its internal mechanism,it answers how digital technology governance promotes rural governance transition.In this paper,Y village in Hunan Province is selected as the investigation point,and the method of case investigation is adopted.Through interviewing and investigating the relevant subjects of Y village’s human settlements improvement action,we can understand the specific process of the development of Y village’s human settlements improvement action,and grasp the changes of attitudes,ideas and actions of various actors before and after the environmental improvement action.At the same time,based on the survey results,combined with the theory of technology empowerment,this paper analyzes the realization mechanism of technology empowerment in the process of human settlements improvement.First of all,in the propaganda stage of human settlements improvement,the application of digital technology in Y village has realized the transfer of information knowledge to villagers.As the basic content of technology empowerment,information knowledge transfer has successfully mobilized the villagers’ enthusiasm for participation,made them realize their status as the main body of governance and changed the previous "political apathy" participation situation.Secondly,in the middle stage of human settlements improvement,villagers use the information and knowledge resources they have mastered,and rely on the online consultation platform provided by technology applications to continuously extend their social network,and use the sharing trend generated under different motives as the adhesive for the formation of collective consensus to promote the formation of collective action.Finally,in the middle and late stage of human settlements improvement,taking the evaluation of human settlements sanitation in Y village as the main line and value creation as the breakthrough point,this paper analyzes the mechanism of technology empowerment in the interaction between grassroots village cadres and villagers.Finally,the internal mechanism of rural technology application promoting rural governance transition is summarized.The application of rural technology successfully realizes technology empowerment and promotes the transformation of rural governance to "autonomy" through three internal logic functions: "information practice activates villagers’ subjective consciousness","platform application builds an equal negotiation environment" and "power embedding promotes the emergence of interactive governance model".On this basis,the limitations of technology empowerment mechanism are pointed out,and the future development path is put forward.