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  • South Korea Wins UN Award for Government Innovation

    The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs has been selected as this year’s winner for the 2006 Public Service Awards (PSA) of the United Nations.

    The PSA awards, introduced in 2000 by the U.N. and managed by its Department for Economic and Social Affairs, recognizes the efforts by public organizations and agencies around the world in bettering transparency and accountability of public services and improving their delivery and responsiveness.

  • South Korea, Italy to collaborate on e-govt projects

    Korea and Italy have signed a memorandum of understanding on bilateral cooperation on e-government at Palazzo Vidoni in Rome, Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MOPAS) of Korea said.

    MOPAS Minister Maeng Hyung-kyu and his Italian counterpart Minister for Public Administration and Innovation Renato Brunetta have met to exchange views on the programmes of modernization and digitalization of the public sector of both countries.

    After the meeting, the two ministers signed the MOU on issues of e-government and innovation that will allow for collaborations and exchange of experience in the fields of health, education, justice and security.

  • South Korea, Italy to Cooperate on E-Government Programs

    Korea and Italy have signed a memorandum of understanding on strengthening cooperation in the e-government sector.

    The Ministry of Public Administration and Security said Thursday that Minister Maeng Hyung-kyu and his Italian counterpart Renato Brunetta agreed to collaborate on e-government programs.

  • South Korea, Japan to sign e-government deal

    Korea is set to export its e-government systems to Japan, one hundred years after it was forced to adopt Japan's administrative system and rules under its colonial occupation.

    Korea and Japan will sign an agreement on e-government cooperation and technological exchange later this month, according to a government source.

    Korean IT companies have sold electronic government systems to Japan's local governments since 2004, but it will be the first such deal between the central governments of the two countries.

  • South Korea, Nigeria Collaborate On E-Government Master Plan

    The federal government has contracted the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to develop an e-Government master plan as part of the global best practices obtained world over.

    This was disclosed by the minister of communication technology, Omobola Johnson, during a strategy workshop on master plan for e-government in Nigeria, organised by the ministry of communication technology in collaboration with KOICA and Sangmyung University, South Korea in Abuja.

  • South Korea: 'E-government must focus on improving business

    Korea must advance its e-government projects to improve business environment and to offer new opportunities for the private sector, according to a senior executive at the International Business Machines Corp.

    "E-government is not only about providing better citizen services but enhancing effectiveness of the partnership between government and the private sector and creating a policy environment that allows business to thrive," said Jeffrey Rhoda, head of IBM's e-government services division, in an interview with The Korea Herald.

  • South Korea: 'TV-Govt' Goes Beyond Internet

    Fifty-year-old Lee Jin-soon has been addicted to the Internet ever since she learned how to use it from her son, a college student in a remote city.

    It was a great surprise for her to know that she could get civil documents, such as certificates of residence and land without going to a district office some 3 kilometers away from her house. She used to have to catch rides in neighbors’ cars due to inadequate public transportation in her small rural town in Yonchon, Kyonggi Province.

  • South Korea: ‘E-government’ stumbles at its outset

    Jung Suk-ja, 29, was venting her anger on civil servants at the Gangnam district office Friday. She had tried for 20 minutes, to no avail, to get her citizen registration document issued from a kiosk in the office. The kiosk was a terminal for the so-called “electronic government system,” established amid much fanfare last year to permit citizens to self-serve necessary procedures.

  • South Korea: 1,000 Out of 7,900 Regulations to be Loosened Within This Year

    Out of 7,900 regulations held by various parts of the government, 1,000 will be checked this year. Furthermore, 35 “group regulations” that relate many parts and have big regulation improvement effects will also be improved systematically.

  • South Korea: Albert Einstein comes back to life - as a robot

    All aspects of our lives will be reliant on the Internet and our cellphones

    Robots that smile and blink. A "ubiquitous" Internet that envelops people in an always-wired world. Radio ID tags on every product and person, letting you check whether the wine you're thinking of buying will go with that steak or if your children have arrived safely at school.

    These visions of the future were among innovations exhibited yesterday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit, in Busan, South Korea.

  • South Korea: Anti-Corruption Body Wins Best e-Gov’t Award in Sweden

    The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC) has won the top award conferred by the e-Challenges Conference and Exhibition to a helpful e-government systems.

    The award ceremony took place in Stockholm, Sweden, last Friday, a commission spokesman said Thursday.

  • South Korea: Are mobile devices too insecure for govt services?

    More than 50 per cent of electronic government services are now delivered on mobile phones in South Korea, the world’s most advanced mobile telephony market. But are mobile devices secure enough to support government services? In an interview with FutureGov, Professor Cheol Oh, a member of the Presidential Committee for Korea’s National Development of Information Society, said that more effort needed to go into securing mobile devices before they become more serious targets for cyber criminals.

    “Security on mobile phones is a big issue in Korea,” said Prof Oh. “We need a different kind of technology to protect the information stored on it. As much money that goes into R&D to build a better mobile environment for government services should go into making that environment secure.”

  • South Korea: Beyond the Internet, putting citizens first

    Director General, E-Government Bureau, Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs

    The story on Internet use in Korea is already famous worldwide. Fortune business magazine reported that "nearly everyone in Korea has Internet access that puts Americans to shame" and that "broadband is as basic a utility as water and electricity." (Sept. 2004).

  • South Korea: Busan to Become World's First 'U-City'

    Busan is looking to build the world's first "Ubiquitous City" (U-City), where cutting-edge IT technology is used to give residents online access anywhere and everywhere.

    Some countries have run test projects using "ubiquitous" technology or applied it to specific sectors. But Busan will be the first city to attempt to commercialize ubiquitous technology in the entire urban environment, including port facilities, transportation, industry, tourism, conventions, e-government and the everyday life of residents.

  • South Korea: Cheaper, Effective Public Services Required

    Korea needs to make changes in the way it runs the public sector, adopting new technologies and solutions to reduce costs and increase the benefit of end-users in delivering public services, according to participants at a Seoul conference Wednesday.

    The Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs hosted an international seminar joined by about 50 bureaucrats and scholars at the Grand Hilton hotel in downtown Seoul Wednesday.

  • South Korea: Clean Registration Number Campaign Starts Again

    The Ministry of Public Administration and Security will launch a “Clean Resident Registration Number” campaign from the beginning of May until the end of June to prevent the unique numbers from being misused online. Through this campaign, Internet users can track down and clear the history of their resident registration numbers used in identification verification process since 2001 for free. The first time the campaign ran, some 239,000 people took part.

  • South Korea: Commitment is key to online government

    There are a number of reasons why Korea succeeded in developing its e-government in a short period of time, but an OECD official says it was the political commitment that led to its success.

    "I must say Korea has done very well in this area (e-government). It has a well-developed and well-equipped Information Technology infrastructure. But it was possible because Korea had strong political commitment to develop e-government," said Christian Vergez, a senior official of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in an interview with The Korea Herald last week.

  • South Korea: Coordination lacking in IT blueprint

    The priorities of the world are changing when it comes to e-government - and Korea must keep up.

    A specific action plan for the information technology promotion project of the Lee Myung-bak administration has been announced.

    According to the plan, 142,000 professional IT jobs are to be created through investment of 5.2 trillion won ($3.9 billion) over four years. Moreover, the government aims to effectively cut costs by 13.3 trillion won every year by improving service and administrative efficiency for citizens and businesses.

  • South Korea: Criminal Database to Draw Criticism

    A government plan to create a computerized database consolidating all criminal records kept at the country’s law enforcement bodies has critics concerned over what they call an increasingly intrusive state.

    According to officials at the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, the government is currently digitalizing investigation records, court papers, prison administration documents and other legal records from the police, prosecution, courts, and the Ministry of Justice.

  • South Korea: Critics caution public on proposed legal database

    Sensitive information could be leaked, civic groups say

    The government is seeking to consolidate documents related to criminal cases at the National Police agency, the prosecution, courts, and the Defense Ministry into a comprehensive database to enhance operating efficiency. But the political community and civic groups are concerned about a possible compromise of private information.

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