ABSTRACT
Public administration is public information generation, transmission and processing process, citizens living in the sovereign and the principal position in the public administration, citizens should be aware that public information and supervise the government. Public information refers to information in the public domain, is the sum of public life and public administration information about. Specifically, the main public information, including public administration, public affairs, public life, public interest information. Public areas are a human system; public information includes common environment information, the common system information, a common structure information, public information and public process information element. Public information is the subject of citizens should be aware of all the information, including the three aspects: 1) the government’s information. Overall information including the government composed of government information, information behavior and the effect of the government, the government in the past, present and future information. Specifically, there are: Status government institutions, such as the government’s functions, powers, composition, responsibilities and institutional settings; cases of government activity sites, such as the more significant work items, time, place and procedures for work, the government enacted legislation, decrees, policies and institutions, etc.; relationship information within the government, such as the contents of the internal division of labor, power relations and functions relations; 2) information about citizens. Including the overall composition of the citizens, the interests and rights of distribution, survival
2.2 Public information is a prerequisite for the establishment of a democratic type of government
People are the source of public power, the government is to serve the people, and citizens have the right to know public information, monitoring the government, constrained government, the obligation to provide public information to citizens. Citizens to find, receive and impart information is, of course, the meaning of modern democracy, government is obliged to ensure that citizens can be convenient and low-cost access to public information. Only citizens to public information as a precondition before they can effectively supervise and restrain government. Government Information in the natural dominance of information, studies have shown that government control of information resources, if there is no transparent information disclosure mechanism, under conditions of asymmetric information, it is difficult to citizens as principals and as agents of the government equality of the game, the client’s interests are likely to be violated. The Democratic government requires citizens to freedom of expression and freedom of speech. Hegel said that truth is freedom of the mind, too, political freedom and freedom of expression must be true citizens of public information as a precondition.
