Hundreds of government officials and experts from some 50 countries gathered in South Korea on Tuesday to take part in a United Nations-backed forum on electronic government, organizers said.
The Global e-Government Forum 2013, co-hosted by the U.N. and South Korea's Ministry of Security and Public Administration, kicked off earlier in the day in Ilsan, just north of Seoul, for a two-day run.
Under the theme of "Smart Government and Smart Society: Openness, Sharing, Communication and Collaboration," the forum, the second of its kind, is expected to be a venue for "comprehensive discussions on e-government's role as well as trends in the new era," the ministry said.