In 2012, Zipei Tu (Vice President at Alibaba Group) published his first book Big Data, which is a
pioneering work in the field of big data in China. Since then, he has published Top of The Data,
arguing that big data must be promoted from a scientific symbol to a cultural symbol to help
China win the global competition. In September last year, his third book in the field of big data,
Digital Civilization, was published, extending the perspective to countries, societies and even
individuals in the era of big data. In his book, Zipei Tu wrote that "digital civilization is a shortcut
to understand the past and the present, and a 'golden line' connecting the past and the future".
He stressed that "the focus on technology is ultimately about people's inner reactions to
technology.”
Q: You mentioned the concept of "the Internet of Numbers" in your book. What is its value and
significance when it comes to government governance?
A: The connection and integration of big data will form integral data, and integral government
starts from integral data. "Digital networking" is a means to connect all government data to the
Internet. Networking doesn't mean you're all connected together. It's about connecting data
organically. Once all government data are available, it is a holistic government on the data
dimension. It is conservatively estimated that the work efficiency of each level of government
should be doubled. At the same time, the level of public services will also be improved. If the data
were connected, at least 99 percent of all public services currently provided by the government
would be available online. I have a point that ' run once at most 'can be upgraded to' just once.
' The implementation of "just once" will mobilize the internal force of the government and external
force of the society to jointly promote the overall government in the data dimension. The
government can make it clear that the same data can only be saved once, and all departments
can interact with each other synchronously and share effectively. This also means that various
departments within the government have to be "forced" to communicate and improve service
efficiency, which is a forcing mechanism.
Q: The application of big data has been everywhere, giving birth to many industrial changes.
What do you think is missing in the application of data to enhance governance?
A: At present, many cities in China are in the stage of "having nerves but no brains". They only
focus on data collection instead of effective analysis and analysis, so their ability of data analysis
and data mining is very limited. In my opinion, the future urban management is based on data
flow analysis, mining and calculation, which I call "management by Numbers". Whether a city can
manage on the basis of data stream or not will become an important symbol to measure its
modernization level. With data flow, real-time analysis and prediction are conducted to find
problems in time, provide management clues, prevent crisis risks, allocate public resources and
optimize daily decisions. We can finally control and manage the flow of people, logistics, traffic,
currency flow and so on, which is the governance of modernization.
Q: Data flow and data interconnection undoubtedly make society clearer, and what governance
changes will follow?
A: The management society must invent clearly identifiable individual units. Clarity is the premise
of effective management and control, and the common foundation of refinement, personalization
and intelligence. Just like the ability to lock, track and distinguish the track of every snowflake in
the sky, this ability has been mastered by some Internet enterprises through the establishment of
their own platforms. If the government also has such a platform, it will gain amazing governance
ability. Of course, this capability can be a data cage for the public if used improperly by the
government. Seeking truth from facts is an important experience gained from reform and
opening up. In the era of big data, "facts" become "real Numbers", we can rely on artificial
intelligence, rely on machines to "seek truth", to find the law. People are very extensive, and the
machine is fine, "real truth", help us better understand the society, the transformation of society.
Q: You talk a lot about the value of "skynet" video in your book. Open camera data is also a kind
of data opened by the government. How to manage and use such data?
A: Skynet focuses on the big data of urban image, which is more and more popular and gradually
becomes the infrastructure in the world. In China, a large part of this kind of data management
is done by the public security department, but I believe that these data should not only serve the
public security department, otherwise it will limit the maximum utilization of its resource value.
Where should I put it? For example, Guangdong government service data administration bureau.
Because they are an important data resource of a city, managers should consider how to use
skynet for service from the perspective of society. We will be worried because of the popularity
of skynet and bring privacy leakage, then how to hedge this sentiment? If we open up the data
and let people use it, that's a very good hedge. In the United States and the United Kingdom and
other countries, laws clearly stipulate that "if your personal data is held by the government or an
institution, you have the right to view the content of these data". In China, there are some
individual regions that are trying to respond to the needs of the society, but more efforts are
needed. The urgent task is to make a national top-level design on such issues as the procedures
open to application, how to retrieve the data, the usage norms after retrieval, and the
responsibilities of exceeding the norms. What skynet management department needs to practice
is to collect data from the people and use the data from the people. The government should not
only realize "lifelong record and lifelong management" for every citizen when collecting data, but
also provide "lifelong service".
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Background and Career path
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