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Korea to launch e-govt services via IPTV
The government of South Korea has hatched a plan to make e-services available on the country’s IPTV platforms in the capital, Seoul, by early next year. Public information such as tender notices will be provided in real-time through IPTV channels from March 2010, with services such as civil petitions and tax payments to follow at a later stage.
The National Computing & Information Agency (NCIA) is developing public service content for IPTV channels – which enjoy the highest penetration of any country in Asia - and plans to conduct a trial run with 600 households subscribing to IPTV services this month.
Professor Cheol Oh, a member of Korea’s Presidential Committee for National Development of Information Society, told FutureGov that the move was part of the Korean government’s push to provide e-services through multiple channels to boost digital inclusion in Korea.
“Seoul City launched demo projects to see if T-government (TV government) worked as we would like it to a few years ago,” said Prof Oh. “More recently, the Korean government has been strongly encouraging the convergence of broadcasting and communication as a part of national development strategies - and IPTV is an example of these efforts.”
Providing e-services via IPTV will also enable government to more widely distribute IPTV among the public, which will create a bigger market for IPTV related industries, added Prof Oh.
“On the one hand, citizens will benefit in terms of easier and more convenient access to government services. In so doing, they will feel like they’re living in the era of ‘ubiquitous society’ - though that is not the main reason for the project.”
However, Prof Oh pointed out: “What if citizens are not yet ready to fully use such services? These things take time. Providing such services is one thing. Using them is another. The Korean government needs to consider how to effectively drive uptake.”
The project will also see the Korean government team up with SK Broadband, a division of SK Telecom, to build a new version of existing IPTV services, called ‘Broad & IPTV’, in March next year.
The number of IPTV households in Korea jumped by one million in 2007 to 1.6 million at the end of 2008. Korea is second only to China as Asia’s largest IPTV market by subscriber numbers, ahead of Japan and Hong Kong.
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On 30 December 2009 atul patne wrote:
this is a very innovative steps taken for E-Gov.