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Precision poverty relief in China ‐ The role of information and information technology
Author(s) -
Xie Sherry L.,
Jiao Chenyue
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
proceedings of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.193
H-Index - 14
ISSN - 2373-9231
DOI - 10.1002/pra2.2018.14505501183
Subject(s) - poverty , china , battle , presentation (obstetrics) , government (linguistics) , political science , development economics , economic growth , economics , geography , law , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , radiology
Precision poverty relief, a similar concept to targeted poverty relief, has gained tremendous momentum in China since 2013 when it, as a new strategy to the lasting anti‐poverty battle in China, was officially acknowledged by the Chinese Central Government. A series of policies and implementation plans were subsequently issued, either dedicating themselves to this new strategy or to include it as a critical part of a more encompassing measure. To state it is new is not to suggest that the idea only emerged in 2013 but to emphasize its gain of official recognition. In addition, precision poverty relief is reviewed as new in recent years because of the new developments and deployments of information technologies in China, or, as by its Chinese expression, informationalization. This visual presentation reports on the preliminary findings of the project Digital Information and Societal Change, a subtask of the Records‐Centred Digital Information Management Theory and Mechanisms (DI{R}Mtm), which aimed at examining the role of information and informationalization in relation to precision poverty relief strategy.