NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2019 -- Tapad, a global marketing technology company and leader in digital identity resolution solutions, has appointed Ajit Thupil as the company's first Senior Vice President of Identity. Based in New York, Thupil leads digital identity product, business development, and rela

No Chain will host and participate in a series of events during the week of December 5th to 10th to celebrate Human Rights Day in 2016 (December 10), which commemorates the day in 1948 when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document containing rights that sadly the North Korean dictatorship denies to its own people to this day.Jung Gwang Il,

The Korea IT Times’ interview with Jeon Seong-tae, head of the Creative Government & Organization Management Office at the Ministry of Interior.South Korea scored 71.19 and ranked 8th among 92 countries in the World Wide Web Foundation's 2015 Open Data Barometer (ODB).The UK finished 1st with a score of 100 (full marks), followed by the US (81.89) and France (81.64). South Korea was the only A

Since 2013, the Ministry of Interior (MOI) has held the annual Government 3.0 Open Government Data (OGD) Startup Competition to promote the opening up of government data and discover new business models. Only 10 preliminary round winners entered the 3rd OGD Startup Competition, held in 2015. For the past three years, 47 teams received awards at the OGD Startup Competition: 23 teams in the Idea c

The annual Open Government Data (OGD) Startup Competition has been hosted by the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) since 2013. Various ministries have been holding their own startup competitions to discover new business models for the government’s creative economy initiative. Above all, the OGD Startup Competition, hosted by the MOI, is designed to award innovative startup ideas for new web-based or

In July 2015, there was good news coming from Paris, France. South Korea ranked 1st in the Open, Useful, Reusable Government Data Index (the OUR data index) among the 30 OECD member nations, scoring 0.98 on a scale of 0 to 1(1 = greatest openness), much higher than the OECD average of 0.58.South Korea was followed by France (2nd), the UK (3rd), Australia (4th), Canada (5th) and the US (9th). Jap

The intelligent information industry based on artificial intelligence is growing on the back of open sources, an improvement in computing power and the growing use of big data. The key to developing the intelligent information industry is to secure high-quality data. In making important decisions, extracting accurate information from vast amounts of data will make or break your business.To impro

This installment is focused on the opening up of highly demanded data on construction and commercial districts.Construction dataConstruction data refers to all the data created in the administrative processing of the lifecycle of a building from the design, construction and approval for use to maintenance and demolition. Construction data include important information related to individuals’ p

Under the Data Big Bang project, the opening of government data was completed in 11 of the 36 high-priority areas last year, including data on municipal licenses and permits (in June); data on the coffers of the government (in July); construction data, real-time data on public water supplies and data on the prices of agro-fishery products (in November); and real estate market data and data on comm

It’s not an overstatement to say that 2016 has seen a Big Bang taking place in the world of data. Far-sighted developed countries, like the US, the UK, Australia and Japan, started to open up government data to the public earlier than others.Since 2013 the South Korean government has been making government data available to the public (except data pertaining to the protection of personal data, i

Open Square D, South Korea’s first one-stop startup incubating center dedicated to startups using open government data (OGD), has been home to six startups since its opening in January.The six tenants are startups armed with a variety of creative ideas, including an OGD-based parking space information service, a virtual reality (VR) video service, a customized medical clinic information service

Open Square D, a one-stop center dedicated to supporting open government data (OGD)-based startups, was opened in January inside the Business Incubation Center (BIC) at Sookmyung Women's University.The opening of Open Square D means that a forward operating base (FOB) for those trying to turn ideas and technology into a business has been set up.Open Square D, formerly called Open Lab, provides

In 2009, a high school student developed the “Seoul Bus” app and provided it to iPhone users for free. The Seoul Bus app made it into one of the top free apps on the App Store in South Korea.The Seoul Bus app was developed by tapping into the mass transit information held by a municipality. However, as the municipality imposed a restriction on the use of the app by reason of intellectual propert