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  • South Korea drives to be a ‘smart country’

    Dr Chang Kwang-soo, Assistant Minister in Informatisation Strategy Office of Ministry of Public Administration and Security, discussed the important role of cyber security in Korea’s journey to be a ‘smart country’.

    In a gathering of local IT professionals, Chang talked about the strategies and challenges of national informatization in becoming a smart nation.

    “Despite the reputation, Korea’s informatization is not without room for improvement. We need to make more efforts to improve software, digital contents, and SI, as we have focused our IT development on hardware. Also we should expand the application of IT beyond administrative efficiency and public convenience to disaster prevention and public safety in general,” Chang explained.

  • South Korea e-govt helps cut emissions by 10%

    The Korean government aims to reduce carbon emissions by 10 percent by 2012. Young-il Kwon, Director, Green IT Department, National Information Society Agency (NIA) revealed to FutureGov how the public sector will lead the way by greening its IT system.

    Ecological ICT infrastructure is one of four areas the Korean government is working on to achieve the ten per cent carbon reduction. The three projects that fall under this scheme include life cycle management of IT systems, the integration of government servers and web sites, and greening the government data centre (see interview with the National Computing and Information Agency).

  • South Korea example in e-government

    A senior U.N. official said Korea's advanced electronic government system should be an example for underdeveloped countries as it improves government services while narrowing the information gap.

    Haiyan Qian, chief of the knowledge management branch at the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs praised Seoul's significant contribution to the world body's efforts at spreading an e-governance infrastructure worldwide, especially in poor countries.

  • South Korea exports e-government expertise to Kyrgyzstan

    The United Nations, Brown University and the Brookings Institute have all recognized Korea's e-government system as one of the best in the world, and Korea has already helped seven other countries develop e-government master plans. Kyrgyzstan will be the next country to benefit from Korea's expertise, following the conclusion of a memorandum of understanding between the two countries on a joint e-government project.

    The agreement, signed March 10 by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Kyrgyz Ministry of Transport and Communications, mandates cooperation on educational and training programs that will enable Kyrgyzstan to introduce and operate its own e-government system.

  • South Korea exports e-government model to Japan

    One hundred years after South Korea adopted Japan’s administrative system under colonial rule, Korea has struck an historic deal to sell its e-government model to Japan. In an interview with FutureGov, a leading Korean academic in public administration said the deal marked a shift for Korea “from playing catch-up to leading the way” for e-government in East Asia.

    Korean IT companies have sold e-government systems to local governments in Japan since 2004. But this is the first such deal between the two countries’ central governments. Japan has experiences difficulties setting up and managing e-government systems; investments made by central and local governments have often overlapped. Korea has had similar problems in the past, and has gone a long way to solving them.

  • South Korea Exports IT Policies

    Korea exports not only IT goods and service but also IT-related policies. Korea now export IT policies. The country which had sent officers for studying IT policies to advanced countries like U.S. less than 10 years ago has transformed itself as a country to advise other countries on IT policies: securing technology standards and influencing decision making process of other countries, and even providing consulting service with regards to reorganizing government system. Some countries even adopt an entire system as a whole to set up and reorganize government organization. Such policy exports definitely lead to brisk exports of Korean companies.

  • South Korea extends biometrics scanning to all foreigners

    All foreigners entering the country will undergo biometrics scanning starting in the new year to combat terrorism and prevent threats to national security, said immigration officials.

    According to the Korea Immigration Service on Monday, foreigners age 17 or older will undergo fingerprint and facial scanning upon entering the county starting Jan. 1.

    The program started scanning those from countries deemed high-risk by the KIS in September 2010, and has since expanded to include all foreigners choosing long-term stay here.

  • South Korea Government improves citizen engagement through Open Data & Big Data

    The South Korean Ministry of Government Legislation (MOLEG) has significantly improved citizen engagement by enabling easy access to and search of accurate and timely legal information. Ik Hyeon Rhee, Director General of Legislation Bureau of Economic Affairs at MOLEG speaks to FutureGov about how open data and Big Data will continue to be a priority for his team.

    Success: One of South Korea’s most popular information centre

    MOLEG operates the Korea Law Service Centre which is one of the most popular and biggest data centres in the country. The Centre aims to allow government departments, businesses and citizens to quickly and easily search, understand and use the diverse legal information available.

  • South Korea greens national data centres

    South Korea has committed to reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions of its national data centre by 18 per cent by 2013.

    IT resources managed by the National Computing and Information Agency (NCIA) has been increasing steadily at 25 per cent since 2006. Based on current consumption patterns, it is estimated that electricity use will more than double within the next five years, from 89,718 megawatt hour (mwh) to 216,243 mwh.

  • South Korea hails California’s govt IT strategy

    The South Korean government’s Director of Green IT has described the government of California’s plan to cut the energy its IT operations use by 30 per cent by 2012 as “very aggressive” as Korea embarks on its own mission to reduce energy consumption from 40 ministries and agencies by 15 per cent by 2013.

    Young-il Kwon, Director, Green IT Project Department, South Korea’s National Information Society Agency (NIA), told FutureGov that to achieve its goal, California will need to focus it efforts on server consolidation, using virtualisation as a means to make much of the US$1.4 billion governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes to make in savings for state coffers over the next two years.

  • South Korea has best "e-government": UN survey

    South Korea has been voted to have the best “e-government” in a survey conducted by the United Nations, the South Korean government said Thursday.

    The U.N. E-Government Survey, a biannual assessment of all 192 member states' government web infrastructure, rated the South Korean government's comprehensive online infrastructure as the best in the world, after giving the top rank in the government's website level and user involvement level.

  • South Korea has the most effective e-governance in Asia

    South Korea is most effective in e-governance in Asia while Laos the least effective, according to the recent survey by UN Data Center.

    According to the UN report, the e-government survey measures e-government effectiveness in the delivery of public services and identifies patterns in e-government development and performance.

  • South Korea holds broadband lessons

    The business environment, government policies and social factors have contributed to South Korea's broadband success.

    Speaking at the CommunicAsia conference held here this week, Simon Bureau, managing director of business development consultancy Vectis International, said that the success of South Korea's broadband market provides important lessons for countries that are trying to promote broadband.

    With a broadband household penetration rate of over 80 percent, South Korea is often hailed as one of the most wired nations in the world. All Internet users in South Korea use broadband services--there is no more dial-up access.

  • South Korea is leading in the e-world

    From personal to government systems, the nation is a model for other countries

    Even the most analog-loving Korean enjoys some benefits of the country’s advanced IT systems. They just may not know it.

    Take the urbanite who whips out a T-Money pass to get to work. These plastic cards, which are used to pay for buses, subways, cabs, convenience store purchases and some expressway tolls in and around Seoul, come equipped with a central processing unit.

  • South Korea is promoting AI

    President Moon Jae-in will place more significance on promoting Artificial Intelligence (AI) with the goal of establishing it as a core nation industry.

    During a visit to the Developer’s View conference at COEX, Monday, Moon emphasized the need to build an “AI powerhouse” as the next phase to being an “IT powerhouse” to take the worldwide lead in preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. To that extend, the administration will proclaim a national roadmap for promoting the AI segment with comprehensive support actions within the year, rendering to Cheong Wa Dae Monday.

  • South Korea is the Hub Nation for e-Government

    June 23 marked the day when the whole world found out how advanced Korea's IT was. The Korean government had the honor of winning the 'Global e-Government System 2010' award at the 2010 United Nations Public Service Day, which was held at the AXA Convention Center in Barcelona, Spain for 3 days. It was another outstanding accomplishment the nation achieved after it was ranked first on the 'development of e-government index' and the 'online participation index' earlier this year.

    Now Korea is positioned to be a hub nation of e-government. In this moment when Korea indeed takes on an important role as a model for many other countries, Korea IT Times interviewed Kang Jung-hyup, Assistant Minister of Informatization Strategy Office in the Ministry of Public Administration and Security to have a conversation about information system and the current challenges Korea faces.

  • South Korea IT Services Speed Up to Enter Global Projects

    Korea IT service is going to speed up entering global projects. The 'Global Smart SOS Initiative 2010' is held on June 25 in COEX and 72 officials from 20 countries such as Bangladesh Dubai, Morocco, Israel, Japan and more will participate in this event.

    This event is sponsored by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and KOTRA and organized by NIA (National Information Society Agency).

    At this event, USD 29 billion of 61 overseas projects about u-City, e-government, u-Health and IT being implemented will be introduced. In the morning of the 25th June, a conference will be held to introduce Korea Information experiences and practices and world smart SOC development status.

  • South Korea launching facial recognition CCTV pilot to trace COVID cases

    South Korea is planning to add facial recognition to the technology arsenal of its contact-tracing initiative, with the hope of saving numerous hours of labor and speed up notifications of potential exposure to COVID-19, according to Thomson Reuters.

    Bucheon, a city of more than 800,000 at the edge of Seoul, has been granted Won 1.6 billion (US$1.35 million) from the country’s Ministry of Science and ICT, and contributed an additional Won 500 million ($ million) of its budget to develop the facial recognition system for tracking the movements and contact of infected people on footage from 10,820 CCTV cameras. The system can reportedly track the paths of up to ten people in between five and ten minutes.

  • South Korea leads pack in opening e-government

    Korea has succeeded in implementing e-government thanks to its good human resource base and continuous investment in telecommunication infrastructure. But it is now time to spread its technology to the rest of the world, a U.N. officer said.

    "Korea could lead the way (to develop e-government) and export technological ideas, software and application. This will be the right way," said Seema Hafeez, economic affairs officer of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in an interview with The Korea Herald last week.

  • South Korea leads pack in opening e-government

    UN official says Korea could lead the world in e-government development and export technological ideas and software

    Korea has succeeded in implementing e-government thanks to its good human resource base and continuous investment in telecommunication infrastructure. But it is now time to spread its technology to the rest of the world, a U.N. officer said.

    "Korea could lead the way (to develop e-government) and export technological ideas, software and application. This will be the right way," said Seema Hafeez, economic affairs officer of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs in an interview with The Korea Herald last week.

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