Study on the Role of Chief Data Officers in the Digital Government Construction
The construction of digital government is vital for the government to adapt itself to the new wave of scien-tific and technological revolution,transform governmental functions,and enhance the governance modernization.Chief data officers(CDOs)play a key role in the digital government construction.By means of the Q methodology,this paper conducts an exploratory study on the role of CDOs in the digital government construction in China.The re-sult shows that in the Chinese context,CDOs plays eight important roles,i.e.,initiator,communicator,strate-gist,educator,coordinator,architect,facilitator and implementer.
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