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eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

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  • South Korea: Project to offer remote health care in pipeline

    In the near future, thousands of people with serious ailments will be able to get checkups and other hospital services without having to leave the comfort of their couches.

    The Ministry of Knowledge Economy announced a plan yesterday to create what it says will be the world’s largest remote health care system in the world as part of a pilot project to tap a new market.

    The ministry estimates that the global “e-health care” market will hit $254 billion by 2013, presenting new opportunities for local hospitals, patients and companies.

  • South Korea: Public Procurement Service Aims to Export E-Procurement System to Africa, Latin America

    The Public Procurement Service (PPS) plans to export Korea ON-line E-Procurement System (KONEPS), called the "Narajangteo" in Korean, to countries in North-West Africa, Asia, and Latin America. "Through exports of the nation's e-procurement system, we plan to build close cooperation with the countries and spread the Narajangteo to their neighboring countries in the near future," a senior PPS official said. KONEPS is an electronic procurement system that systemizes all procurement businesses into one and it will effectively provide public institutions with materials, facilities and services they need at a proper time.

    An official stated, "In keeping with Korea's hosting of G20 meeting this year and Korea's joining of OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC), we are making all-out efforts to contribute to economic development of developing countries through the setup of e-procurement system." In line with this, PPS is moving to hand down its successful experience & know-how on the Narajangteo and advanced procurement system to developing countries, not to mention exporting e-procurement system.

  • South Korea: Reaching the Potential of Information and Communication Technologies

    Eight years ago, the South Korean Government turned to the internet to set up its purchasing system offering online information about more than 420,000 standard products.

    It was a marked change. As the World Bank’s Robert Schware says, the e-procurement system replaced a purchasing process which was “widely regarded as corrupt, non-transparent, complicated and lacking accountability.”

  • South Korea: Red Tape Weakens IT Power

    Cumbersome administrative procedures and regulations are overshadowing South Korea’s competitiveness in the IT industry despite its well-established high-speed Internet resources, a report from the World Economic Forum showed Wednesday.

    According to the forum’s annual Global Information Technology Report released Wednesday, Korea was the most active country in the world in terms of private firms’ Internet usage, and second best in the high-speed Internet penetration rate. On the contrary, it was lowly ranked in the administrative process for starting new businesses (89th), efficiency of taxation (71st) and accessibility to venture capital (68th).

  • South Korea: Research Reveals Factors That Promote Innovation in Government

    Using an unusually extensive dataset, an international team of researchers has identified several factors that promote government innovation. While leadership commitment to innovation is vital, it also takes an engaged, professional workforce and new management structures to implement and spread innovative practices.

    Seok Eun Kim, a public management scholar at the University of Arkansas, worked with colleagues in Illinois and Korea to examine extensive data gathered by the Korean government on the adoption, implementation and diffusion of innovative government programs. The research is one of the few data-driven assessments of innovative practices in government.

  • South Korea: Roh vows to enhancescience, technology

    President Roh Moo-hyun laid out plans yesterday to promote the fields of science and technology, as a key part of the government's effort to develop into a global power in knowledge-based industries, and become an economic nerve center in Northeast Asia.

  • South Korea: Seoul City Launches Help Line for Foreigners

    Foreigners will likely have fewer difficulties living in Korea. The Seoul city government on Wednesday announced it launched an exclusive telephone counseling service for foreigners.

    By dialing 120 (Seoul Call Center), foreigners can get assistance in English, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, or Mongolian from some 20 staff. The counseling service covers a wide variety of issues such as transportation, tourist attractions, immigration matters, financial transactions, and cultural performances.

  • South Korea: Seoul City pushes for Citizens-Oriented E-Government

    "To meet citizens' growing demands for online communication and effectively cope with rising demand for green IT services and green growth, the city government is actively pushing ahead with the e-government vision," said Song Jung-hee, Assistant Mayor for Information Technology (CIO) of Seoul Metropolitan Government.

    "To achieve the e-government vision, which is essential in an era of mobile environment, such as smart phones, we have set four policy targets," she said.

    "First of all, we are propelling a project to help underprivileged people have easier access to the digital society and offer life information services to citizens through up-to-date information media, including mobile phones and IPTV. Along with this, we are pushing for GOV2.0 by providing Apple developers with development space through the Seoul App Center, and make a public life information database," said Song.

  • South Korea: Seoul comes top of e-governance survey

    Seoul has been ranked top for the second year running in an international survey grading e-governance initiatives in 100 cities.

    The biannual survey, a project jointly conducted by the Institute of e-governance at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea and Rutgers University in the United States, researched five aspects of each city's cabability for operating e-governance systems. They were graded in terms of security-privacy, usability, content, service and citizen participation. Seoul won four categories among the five.

  • South Korea: Seoul e-governance on world stage

    Seoul Metropolitan Government signed MOUs with Barcelona, Spain, La Manche, France and Katmandu, Nepal on June 15, 19 and 22, respectively on cooperation in building e-governance systems in those cities.

    Katmandu had expressed interest in learning about Seoul’s e-governance model ever since its former Mayor Dinesh Thapaliya participated in World e-Government Mayors Forum held in Seoul in 2008. In February, Mayor Narayan Gopal Malego made a formal request for cooperation in forming the city’s e-governance system.

  • South Korea: Seoul hosts e-government assembly

    The inaugural meeting of the World e-Government Organization, established to reduce the information gap among the member cities and to promote a common prosperity, kicked off in Seoul on Tuesday.

    Mayors and IT experts from some 50 cities participated in the two-day conference followed by a four-day forum in order to draw up the organization’s basic bylaws, said officials.

    The participants also voted for Barcelona as the hosting state of the next assembly.

  • South Korea: Seoul Most Wired Worldwide

    Every household in and around Seoul is hooked up to high-speed Internet services, with the penetration rate exceeding 100 percent in May.

    According to the Ministry of Information and Communication Sunday, 14.3 million out of the country's 15.9 million households nationwide are linked to broadband Internet connections as of May.

  • South Korea: Seoul ranks 1st on e-gov't survey

    Seoul City ranked first on the 2010 Rutgers Global E-Governance Survey, securing the position for the fourth year in a row.

    The Rutgers survey is conducted by the E-Governance Institute, School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers University-Newark, and the Global e-Policy e-Government Institute at Sungkyunkwan University and sponsored by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the American Society for Public Administration.

  • South Korea: Seoul split over schools' network

    Plans for a national schools’ database have thrown South Korea’s educational system into turmoil

    Efforts to integrate information on school students in South Korea have caused a major rift among teachers and created a headache for the education minister.

  • South Korea: Seoul takes a bow

    The Republic of Korea has outlined its e-government achievements for the past year

    The Government's plans to use e-government and a strong information infrastructure to increase overall competitiveness are detailed in a document published by the National Computerization Agency (NCA) of the Republic of Korea on 28 November 2003.

  • South Korea: Seoul to expand online service for foreigners

    Korea will offer expanded online services to foreigners wanting to make business investments, visit and study in the country, the government said Friday (Feb. 29).

    The one-stop service can be accessed from Saturday by clicking onto two government-run Internet portals (www.hikorea.go.kr and www.g4f.go.kr), the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said.

  • South Korea: Seoul to export e-govt expertise to Russia

    Seoul City's e-government system and know-how is being transferred to the Russian capital of Moscow.

    Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak met with Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov Thursday and signed a memorandum of understanding pushing the "e-Moscow" project, modeled on Seoul City's e-government.

  • South Korea: Seoul to launch first e-government organization

    Seoul Metropolitan Government will launch the world’s first international e-government organization by hosting the First General Assembly of World e-Governments in October 2010. In preparation, the city successfully hosted the “World Cities CIO Forum: Forming the World e-Governments Organization” at Seoul’s Shilla hotel which started on Monday and ended yesterday. Over 1,000 delegates, including digital governance and IT experts from cities in 42 countries convened for the three-day forum. They presented their country’s e-government systems and policies. After undergoing a series of working-level conferences, on Tuesday they agreed that Seoul should host the first General Assembly. The cities’ IT experts also agreed to set up World e-Governments’ consultative body in Seoul.

  • South Korea: Seoul to lead e-government organization

    Seoul City leads in the development of electronic government based on state-of-the-art technologies and an organization of e-governments will be founded in the city next month.

    The inaugural assembly of World e-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments (WEGO) will be held at Grand Hyatt Seoul from Sept. 6 to 8.

    The meeting is sponsored by the United Nations Project Office on Governance (UNPOG) under the U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Mayors and IT experts from some 50 cities will take part in the conference.

  • South Korea: Seoul to Send e-Gov't Know-how to Moscow

    Seoul City's e-government system and know-how is being transferred to the Russian capital of Moscow. Seoul mayor Lee Myung-bak met with Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov Thursday (Korean time) and signed a memorandum of understanding pushing the "e-Moscow" project, modeled on Seoul City's e-government.
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