IfG.CC - The Institute for eGovernment

The country's IT exports grew from 7.5 billion US dollars in 1990 to 127 billion dollars in 2007, while its major IT products including semiconductors, handsets and LCD panels take the largest shares of the market in the world.

In the last five years the sector was roughly 40 percent of the country's real gross domestic product and created more than 200,000 jobs.

The E-government Standard Framework, by the Korean Ministry of Public Administration and Security, won the Government Organisation of the Year, the Technology Leadership Award and the award for Government Transformation of the Year.

Decentralized identity as a form of identity management by a country? Sounds odd, but it actually should be the future of identity management. Here’s why.

Blockchain technology, once known as almost the exclusive domain of techies and crypto enthusiasts, has been under the microscope of the Korean government over the last half-decade. This is not because of cryptocurrencies; rather, it is the fact that the technology itself promises a treasure trove of practical uses across multiple industries, both private or public.

The year 2011 was an historic year for the informatization of Korea,” said Dr. Chang Kwang-su Assistant Minister at the Informatization Strategy Office of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MOPAS) when asked about the national informatization project of the organization. ” Korea’s exports of e-government solutions surpassed USD 200 million on the basis of its number one position in the evaluation of e-governments by the UN and winning a public administration prize given by the UN.”

The United Nations Public Administration Programme has announced the launch of its “E-Government Survey 2012: E-Government for the People” on 29 February 2012, and Korea maintains its position in the 1st place since 2010 as achieving the greatest e-government both in development and participation indices.

The Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MOPAS) said Thursday that people depend on its online services for document issuance 180 million times throughout last year.

Furthermore, u City related industry has advanced into Chinese market with different forms, including package style for joint advance of builder and IT firm and individual style for partnership between IT company and local builder. It is a good sign for expansion of market bases.

The 'e-Smart-MYbi' cards were launched by the Busan authorities, in conjunction with the local transit agency. More than 5 million smart cards will eventually be issued to citizens, which is rather a lot for a city with a population of 3.65 million.

The City Government has launched an innovation centre called Busan Mobile Application Development Centre (BMAC) to operate as an application store for developers to create, test and host city services.

The BMAC, which is built in association with Cisco and Korea Telecom marks the first phase of the city’s deployment of Smart+Connected Community (S+CC) services.

In South Korea, the government of Sejong City is developing an identification and verification platform for autonomous vehicles using the blockchain technology.

Sejong City in South Korea is developing an identification and verification platform for autonomous vehicles using the blockchain technology. In a bid to give data credibility, Sejong City will use blockchain to protect the data generated by the self-driving vehicles. According to a report by South Korean outlet Aju Business Daily, the Sejong City government will turn to blockchain technology to verify and guard digital identities of the self-driving vehicles.

The app, called ‘Mobile Management Device’, blocks many functions of a smartphone, such as the camera and audio recording tools. In the case of iPhones, the app even prevents users from making calls or sending text messages, only permitting the phones to receive calls and texts. Android phones can still perform those functions.

“Gangnam’s e-government began in 1995 by setting up a computer room and LAN network. Since then it has received local and international recognition, winning many awards and serving as a benchmark for government innovation.” said Shin Yeon-hee, Mayor of Gangnam-gu Office.

Gangnam authorities have just established the city surveillance system. A district-wide broadband network was introduced last year.

Gangnam is the first district in Seoul to install CCTV cameras. In emergency situations, the CCTV for parking control can be converted into crime surveillance cameras, enhancing the district’s security even further.

Gangnam District Office have also introduced a feature called “intelligent image analysis” to the 30 elementary schools in the district as a proactive step to prevent and respond to crimes involving children. The Office also added other features including “smart search” with increases search efficiency for large volume image data; “cast net surveillance”, enabling simultaneous observation of different peripheral areas when a case is notified; and a high-precision 3D GIS map.

Two rights stand out in all open democratic societies — freedom of expression and access to information. E-governance is about both of these.

Korea is an e-governance world beater. The country won the UN’s global e-governance award in both 2010 and for 2011.

According to an official at the Ministry of Commerce, Energy and Industry (MOCIE) the existing three year-old e-government project will be expanded for foreign residents in order to help them in their daily and working lives.

​A delegation from the National Information Society Agency of the Republic of Korea visited UNCTAD on 25 April 2012. During the visit they took the opportunity to present to UNCTAD experts their “e-Government Standard Framework” known as “eGovFrame.”

Opportunities of big data analytics

Shin believes that big data analytics has significant benefits for innovating government administration. “Governments can gain insights around social issues from big data and combat them preemptively or in a more active manner, rather than dealing with problems only after they occur,” she says.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of South Korea announced on Jan. 29 that it will start accepting applications from Jan. 30 for this year’s K-City Network Global Collaboration Project. This initiative aims to establish a smart city cooperation network with foreign nations and support the overseas expansion of South Korean companies.

Launched in 2020, the K-City Network project involves applying the South Korean smart city model to help develop smart cities abroad. It supports foreign cities in establishing smart city plans or conducting feasibility studies, and aids in the local demonstration of domestically developed smart solutions to foster the overseas export of South Korean businesses. So far, the project has undertaken 41 collaborative projects in 23 countries.

On April 26, the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning and the National Information Society Agency (NIA) unveiled the first version of the PaaS-TA, which is an open-source platform as a service for cloud computing service development.

The ministry worked on the cloud computing platform with the Ministry of the Interior from March 2014. At present, the domestic PaaS sector is characterized by various companies’ different development environments and a low level of compatibility, which have caused software service providers to repeat their development processes for services on different platforms.

Despite the increasing importance of broadband in the areas of economic commerce, internet banking, e-government, and e-mail, the quality information of communication services have been rarely provided to users. The standard of quality compensation and the level of damage compensation have been criticized as being estranged from reality as well.