信息化的概念源于20世纪60年代的日本，而后被译成英文传播到西方，西方社会普遍使用信息化的概念是20世纪70年代后期才开始的。1991年海湾战争后，我国加快了信息化建设步伐，1997年召开了首届全国信息化工作会议，并结合我国国情提出了信息化和国家信息化的定义：信息化是指 The concept of informationization originated in Japan in the 1960s and was later translated into English and spread to the West. The concept of widespread use of information in the Western world began only in the late 1970s. After the Gulf War in 1991, China accelerated its pace of information construction. In 1997, it held the first national conference on informationization and put forward the definition of informationization and national informationization in light of China’s national conditions: informationization refers to the