TY - GEN

T1 - Urban Gridding Management as a Social Problem of Chinese Society

AU - Menshikova, Galina

AU - Melnikov, Evgeny

AU - Evstratchik, Svetlana

AU - Pruel, Nikolai

AU - Qin, Haoran

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - The article is devoted to discussing the problem of creating social control technologies on the basis of common national (regional) databases. They exist in many countries, under different names, which often does not reveal their real content. In China it is Urban Gridding management. In accordance with this, the population is not always aware that information about them is collected and their behavior is being monitored by relevant employees. People cannot always verify the correctness of information, although it often influence on the distribution of material goods and advancement in careers, etc.The article describes the experience of China Urban Gridding management' creating and implementing. It is new technology for controlling residents in grids (territorial units) by collecting information about them on Internet platforms. Special centers were created in cities for this purpose. The system is undergoing experimental verification, although more than 50 cities in China are already participating in it. An analysis of the literature revealed two fundamentally different approaches to the new technology. So, if in publications in national editions only its positive potential are highlighted and the danger of divulging the privacy is obscured, foreign authors reveal this and other dangers. The authors suggest that a national discussion on the topic should be started.

AB - The article is devoted to discussing the problem of creating social control technologies on the basis of common national (regional) databases. They exist in many countries, under different names, which often does not reveal their real content. In China it is Urban Gridding management. In accordance with this, the population is not always aware that information about them is collected and their behavior is being monitored by relevant employees. People cannot always verify the correctness of information, although it often influence on the distribution of material goods and advancement in careers, etc.The article describes the experience of China Urban Gridding management' creating and implementing. It is new technology for controlling residents in grids (territorial units) by collecting information about them on Internet platforms. Special centers were created in cities for this purpose. The system is undergoing experimental verification, although more than 50 cities in China are already participating in it. An analysis of the literature revealed two fundamentally different approaches to the new technology. So, if in publications in national editions only its positive potential are highlighted and the danger of divulging the privacy is obscured, foreign authors reveal this and other dangers. The authors suggest that a national discussion on the topic should be started.

KW - Urban Gridding management

KW - internet

KW - Social control

KW - public ignorance

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074112397&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://ibima.org/accepted-paper/urban-gridding-management-as-a-social-problem-of-chinese-society/

UR - https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=41704064

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 9780999855126

SP - 3996

EP - 4000

BT - Proceedings of the 33rd International Business Information Management Association Conference, IBIMA 2019

A2 - Soliman , Khalid S.

PB - IBIMA

T2 - 33rd International Business Information Management Association Conference: Education Excellence and Innovation Management through Vision 2020, IBIMA 2019

Y2 - 10 April 2019 through 11 April 2019

ER -