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. For the project, which will run from 2007 after an investment of W62.8 billion rubles (about US$2.1 billion), Seoul will transfer e-government management know-how to Moscow, and plans call for Korean companies like Samsung and LG CNS to participate in the construction of the system.
The two cities agreed to push initial cooperation in three sectors: building an information system center modeled on Seoul's Data Center, digitizing Moscow's real estate registration system, and a globalization project for Moscow's online educational and cultural contents. In order to do this, the two sides agreed to compose taskforce teams for each project as soon as possible.
Autor: Hong Heon-pyo
Quelle: The Chosun Ilbo, 04.11.2004
