Jun Cheng is currently a Government Research Fellow at the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV), located in Guimarães, Portugal. He is also the Secretary General of Professional Technical Committee of Beijing Information Resources Management Center and an Assessment Expert of Beijing Information Project Processing Center. Jun is a data scientist with more than 13 years of professional work experience in metadata, information catalogue, data processing, information interchange, fundamental information database construction, information infrastructure construction, project implementation, project assessing, performance assessment, information management strategies and policies making, top-level design, and decision making. Jun is responsible for managing the metadata of over 4000 information resources, storing over 900 kinds of data, processing and maintaining 3 city fundamental information resources, including the population, organization unit, and geo-spatial information. This data serves 62 government departments and 14 county governments at the moment. He also assesses over 80 IT Projects of municipal government departments per annum, takes part in the design of full workflow IT management process of Beijing, which is used to manage the whole life cycle of all the municipal IT projects now, and keeps on learning new technologies, such as cloud computing, big data, internet of things, 3D GIS, etc. He published 4 e-government technical standards of Beijing in 2008 and led the design of the smart application support platform and the smart information resources platform in 2012. He also plotted the IT developing plans of government, like “Digital City”, “Sensing City”, and “Smart City” and researched and designed the overall technical framework of Beijing e-government in 2005. His research interests are focused on Smart City, Knowledge Society, and Electronic Governance. Smart City is a goal of our human being, and the Knowledge Society and Electronic Governance are two forces to reach it.
Appointments
- Government Fellow, United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV)
- Secretary General of Professional Technical Committee, Beijing Information Resources Management Center
- Assessment Expert, Beijing Information Project Processing Center
- Associate Researcher, Peking University, China