以电子计算机与网络技术为核心的新技术革命把人类社会从依靠自然资源及生产资本的工业时代推进到以信息、知识为重要资源的信息时代。信息化已经成为推动经济和社会发展的重要因素,成为国民经济现代化的主要标志。21世纪现代化的特征是信息化。各行各业乃至全社会都在呼唤信息化,这是因为,现代化离不开信息化,信息化是现代化的必由之路。 一个中等城市其信息化工作应该包括三方面内容:基础设施,应用系统和信息资源。而网络建设则是信息化 The new technological revolution centered on electronic computers and network technologies has pushed human society from an industrial age dependent on natural resources and productive capital to an information age where information and knowledge are important resources. Informationization has become an important factor in promoting economic and social development and has become the major symbol of the national economic modernization. The characteristic of 21st century modernization is informationization. All walks of life and even the whole society are calling for informationization, because the modernization can not be separated from informationization and informationization is the only way to modernization. A medium-sized city should have three aspects of informationization: infrastructure, application systems and information resources. The network construction is informatization