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Smart Korea = secure Korea

By Adrienne Valdez | 18 April 2011

Dr Chang Kwang-soo, Assistant Minister in Informatisation Strategy Office of Ministry of Public Administration and Security, discussed the important role of cyber security in Korea’s journey to be a ‘smart country’.

In a gathering of local IT professionals, Chang talked about the strategies and challenges of national informatization in becoming a smart nation.

“Despite the reputation, Korea’s informatization is not without room for improvement. We need to make more efforts to improve software, digital contents, and SI, as we have focused our IT development on hardware. Also we should expand the application of IT beyond administrative efficiency and public convenience to disaster prevention and public safety in general,” Chang explained.

According to Chang the government is organizing a special committee and fostering experts using simulation training, etc. in order to respond to cyber-attacks and potential threats. At the same time, Korea is broadening its global collaboration projects for information security via cyber terrorism defense seminar and global standardization of cyber security index.

Furthermore, the government is planning to extend the use of Internet Personal Identification Number (I-PIN), instead of a social security number, starting from the public institutions, in an effort to encrypt crucial personal data.

Korea aims to enhance cyber security and make use of informatization for solving current issues on a national scale.

“In order to establish the best smart government in the world with the public the government envisions the world class mobile e-government and active smart-work environment, based on openness, cooperation, and sustainable growth,” Chang added.

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