四元社会交互运行,亟须深化数字治理战略布局

A Deepened Strategic Layout of Digital Governance in an Interactive Quaternion Society

随着大数据、云计算、人工智能、基因编辑等颠覆性科技竞相涌现,由人、物理世界、智能机器和虚拟信息世界构成的四元社会也应运而生。以数字化社会形态为特征的四元社会的交互运行,呈现出人际世界虚拟化、物理世界数字化、智能机器泛在化、虚拟世界常态化以及四元空间融合化的重要特征,给国家治理对象、治理内容和治理方法,乃至全球政治、经济、科技和全球治理都带来巨大冲击和挑战,亟须在国家层面深化数字治理战略布局。数字治理主要包括数据治理和以数字化技术实现社会的组织与运行两方面,要从加强战略研究,推进数字治理制度体系建设,完善技术安全与风险防范机制,探索建立数字治理的国际协同机制等方面建构四元社会数字治理体系。

Nowadays,the world is undergoing changes unprecedented in a century,and this trend will continue in the future.In the meantime,with the accelerated development of a new round of scientific,industrial and educational revolution,accompanied by the further propelling of the fourth industrial revolution and the second machine revolution,disruptive technologies,such as Big Data,Cloud Computing,Artificial Intelligence and Gene Editing,are emerging and mushrooming.Thus,we now enter an era of intelligent society,which is Quaternion Society encompassing human beings,the physical world,intelligent machines and the virtual world.This is a virtualized and digitized societal model where humans coexist with ubiquitous intelligent machines.Apparently,the interaction between the virtual world and the physical world will bring unprecedented complexity to governance.It also poses challenges to global politics,economy,technology and national power.Meanwhile,there is an urgent need to reconsider bioethics,technological risks,legal regulations and so on.The scope and method of all these questions pertaining to governance should be addressed by a deepened strategic layout of digital governance on a national level.Digital governance means data-based governance and the deployment of digitized technology in social organization and operation.This paper puts forward some forward-looking suggestions for the construction of the digital governance system in Quaternion Society from the aspects of strengthening strategic research,promoting the building of the digital governance system,improving technology security and risk prevention mechanism,and exploring the construction of the international coordination mechanism of digital governance.