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Donnerstag, 19.09.2024
eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

KR: Südkorea / South Korea

  • South Korea: District in Seoul wins 'Intelligent Community of the Year'

    Intelligent Community Forum names Gangnam District in Seoul, Korea, as the 2008 Intelligent Community of the Year

    New York City-based think tank Intelligent Community Forum last Friday named the Gangnam District in Seoul, Korea, as the 2008 Intelligent Community of the Year as part of its annual conference held last week at Brooklyn Polytechnic University.

  • South Korea: E-Documents to Replace Prosecution Paperwork

    Paper documents used in the prosecution process will be replaced with electronic ones as the Ministry of Justice plans to upgrade recording of the criminal process, it said Wednesday.

    According to the plan, the ministry will replace or duplicate every paper necessary for the legal process, such as arrest warrants and written evidence, with electronic data. Also it will endow multimedia data, such as human voice or video images, with the validity to be used as evidence in the legal process.

  • South Korea: E-Government Aims to Slash Red Tape by Late 2010

    Koreans in theory must report no fewer than 22 things each time they move. That means five to 10 separate trips to government offices. But e-government (www.egov.go.kr) is to make life a lot easier for many, offering a one-stop administrative service.

    Public Administration and Security Minister Lee Dal-gon revealed the plan at a meeting of the Presidential Council on National Competitiveness chaired by President Lee Myung-bak on Wednesday. The service will go through a test run this year and be introduced step by step by the end of next year.

  • South Korea: e-Government Brings Significant Change

    Jeong Kuk-hwan, assistant minister for e-government at the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, said an integrated administration reinvention system will bring a significant change to the current government system from next month.

    "If the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries applies for expanding their internal organization, which is an assignment to our ministry, related maritime ministry officials will be able to monitor the entire administrative procedure of our ministry in real time under the new system," Jeong explained in an interview with The Korea Times.

  • South Korea: E-government Export Key to National ICT Development

    Korea's e-government system is reputed to be a representative model for all similar products, and government officials from overseas are visiting Korea to check its progress every year, SK C&C CEO Kim Shin-bae said in an interview with the Korea IT Times.

    IT service is the most promising business in the knowledge-based society and has made itself a cornerstone for a nation's industrial competitiveness, according to Kim.

  • South Korea: e-Government Project Embraces Foreign Residents

    Korea will develop its system of e-government for foreigners (G4F) by 2007, due to the growing number of foreign residents in Korea.

    "The e-government project, launched in 2001, will be expanded for foreign residents in order to help them in their daily and working lives,’’ an official of the Ministry of Commerce, Energy and Industry (MOCIE) said Thursday.

  • South Korea: e-Government Service Gets On Track, Reaches People

    People are now feeling effects of the e-government initiative launched about a year ago.

    The government issued a report on the process of its e-government initiative (www.egov.go.kr) on October 31 in a joint briefing prepared by the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Ministry of Government Administration and Local Autonomy, the Ministry of Information and Communication, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Labor, the Central Service Commission, the National Tax Service and the Public Procurement Service.

  • South Korea: E-government service now Mobile Web compatible

    Users will be able to access e-government systems from any mobile device

    The government’s mobile e-government service, which until now has been compatible only with smartphones made by certain companies, has been unified using the “Mobile Web” system. In future, users will be able to freely access e-government systems using any mobile device, regardless of platform.

    The Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MOPAS) announced on June 23 that it planned to amend its guidelines for compliance with e-government compatibility and unifying the service using Mobile Web.

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  • South Korea: E-government system emerges as promising export item

    The government is gearing up efforts to promote its acclaimed e-government service abroad in a bid to assist domestic companies seeking to advance into overseas e-government service markets.

    The e-government service market offers huge business opportunities for domestic companies because it involves the whole gamut of computing-related areas. However, private companies often find it difficult to have an access to overseas markets. Bidders are required to meet requirements of public institutions. Related policy formulation and implementation and system build-up are expected to come together as well.

  • South Korea: E-Government to Reach Next Level by 2012

    E-government will develop so completely by 2012 that after an online notification to a village office, citizens will see their change of home address for mail services, children's transfer to new schools and everything else taken care of automatically. Meanwhile, IT infrastructure will become even more sophisticated and the speed of Internet connections will increase 10-fold.

    The Ministry of Public Administration and Security on Wednesday released an e-government blueprint in the presence of President Lee Myung-bak.

  • South Korea: E-Government Web Sites Underutilized

    Koreans have been praised worldwide for their passion and expertise in developing Web portals for citizen services under the "e-government" project.

    While the system has been getting rave reviews abroad, particularly from the U.N., citizens here are not so convinced.

    A recent U.N. report placed Korea first among 192 member states in e-Government Readiness.

  • South Korea: E-voting system due to start in 2005

    The government announced yesterday that it would introduce an electronic voting system for all political elections starting in 2005.

    The new voting system will be used on a trial basis from next year when the government will allow local citizens to vote on its major policies.

  • South Korea: E-voting system still has much room for improvement, say voters

    Voters yesterday got a glimpse of the future of high-tech democracy yesterday as the election commission demonstrated an electronic voting system with a touch-screen panel at some polling stations.

    But voters say they are worried about possible technological errors although the automated counting machine would simplify the current voting system.

  • South Korea: Experts Urge e-Government Changes

    Policymakers should focus more on the needs of end-users when operating e-government programs, rather than its technical aspects, according to bureaucrats and businessmen gathered at an international conference in Seoul.

    At the ``Global E-Government Conference with CIOs,'' held at the Government Complex in Kwanghwamun last Friday, top Korea policymakers such as Government Administrators and Home Affairs Minister Lee Yong-sup joined Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer, officials from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the United Nations (UN) to share ideas about providing high-tech solutions for the legislature, judiciary and administration.

  • South Korea: Exports surge in public IT solutions

    Korea’s expertise in the digitalization of administrative work procedures and public services through information technology (IT) applications has been highly recognized in the world, with exports of Korea’s e-government services reaching $148.76 million this year, according to the Ministry of Public Administration and Security Sunday.

    The amount is a huge increase from last year’s $66.7 million.

    Detailed figures showed that Korea’s earnings include $25.20 million from Ecuador for electronic customs services, $33 million from Indonesia for electronic patent applications and $30.60 million from Bangladeshi for information networks.

  • South Korea: Final Government Downsizing Plan Announced

    The presidential transition committee announced its final version of the government reorganization plan yesterday. The current 52 central government agencies, including 2 boards, 18 ministries and 10 commissions, will be trimmed down to 39.

    Six Ministries — Unification, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Information and Communication, Gender Equality and Family, Science and Technology and Finance and Economy — will be merged with related ministries and the Government Information Agency will be disbanded.

  • South Korea: Finance Ministry's app hot among iPhone users

    The Finance Ministry's mobile glossary application, which was launched about a month ago, has become so popular among local users of Apple's iPhone that users of other smartphones are calling on the government to provide the same program to them, officials said yesterday.

    The "Glossary of Current Affairs and Economy," ranked third in the Books category of the app store's top free apps, is not available for Samsung's Omnia or Google's Android.

  • South Korea: Forgery fears lead agencies to suspend e-documents

    Possible holes in the security of government electronic systems that allow people to obtain copies of civil documents through the Internet have led several government agencies to shut down those systems.

    The Supreme Court announced yesterday that it had temporarily halted the issuance of civil documents online as of earlier that morning. On Friday, the Home Ministry closed down its Web site's service that had been issuing to Koreans 21 types of civil documents that could be downloaded and presented as official.

  • South Korea: Forgery-Prone E-Government Service Iced

    In a major setback to e-government, authorities on Friday suspended all online certificate services after they were found to be vulnerable to forgery using a simple computer program. The service allows citizens to print out 21 civil documents such as residence registers on their home computers.

    Any attempt to use the service on the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs website (www.egov.go.kr) as of Friday produced a pop-up message that read, “As the online certificate service system was found to have some shortcomings, we are suspending services from Sept. 23.” The notice apologizes for any inconvenience and promises the ministry will make “every effort to repair the defects and resume the service as soon as possible.”

  • South Korea: Forging E-Gov't Documents Proves Child's Play

    E-government documents and private-sector certificates available online are child’s play to fake, the Chosun Ilbo confirmed Tuesday.

    The Chosun witnessed an Internet security firm forge documents of the National Tax Service and the Human Resources Development Service, a university graduation certificate and a TOEIC score report within minutes.

    Following the lead of the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs, the Supreme Court has now also stopped issuing official documents via the Internet. Almost all documents issued online from government and civil institutions can be manipulated or forged, security experts say.

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