政府信息资源是一切产生于政府内部或虽然产生于政府外部但对政府活动有影响的信息资源的统称。在信息社会中,信息的自由流动是整个市场机制的基础,信息就如同空气一样不可或缺。由于政府总以某种方式与人们的工作和生活的每一方面直接或间接相联系,而且政府在社会管理过程中所 Government information resources are the general term for all sources of information that originate within the government or that are external to the government but have an impact on the government’s activities. In the information society, the free flow of information is the foundation of the entire market mechanism, and information is as essential as air. As the government is always associated directly or indirectly with each aspect of people’s work and life in some way, and in the social management process