SEOUL, KOREA —At the monthly Global Forum for Electronic Governance (GFeG) held in Seoul on August 31, the attendees discussed “New Governance Structure and IT Policy in the Era of Big Data Sharing.”
IT Times and UNPOG sponsored the event.
Acting Head of UNPOG Alexei Tikhomirov opened with his welcoming remark. Next, upon “Domestic Issues & Agenda”, Sang-oh Yun from Dankuk University and Young-Im Cho of Suwon University took turns under each theme “New Governance Structure in the Era of Big Data Sharing” and “Big Data Sharing Strategies for the Next Generation E-Government.” Also Solideo Systems’ use of “Big Data” was introduced under its theme “ Best Practices and Strategies.” For “International Issues & Agenda”, UNPOG’s Tikhomirov and Seunghwan Seung from Inha University under his topic “Open Government: Issues & Global Cooperation” continued.
Prof. Yun talked about the confusing definition of “Big Data”, and said, “the solution lies in adopting a governance model for this important issue, rather than resorting to a high-risk policy model led by the government.” He then focused on pointing out a must-do list for the governance installation. “We need to work on selecting the most optimized governance model. Though no specific governance model is on our radar, I hope what I walked you through today would help us find the future governance model for the big data,” concluded he.
Suwon University’s Prof. Cho took on “Big Data Sharing Strategies For the Next Generation E-Government.” The below is from his speech.
Accenture is a multinational management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dubin, Republic of Ireland. Accenture forecasts IT(Information Technology) trend as "Accenture Technology Vision 2012" like the following 6 issues. This is to give some guides to company, government, and group etc., which could be applied to their fields over the next 3~5 years.
The 6 issues are 1) IT services according to people's preference and behaviors patterns, 2) IT based integration between society and company 3) The fusion of old and new data 4) Industrial data services 5) Agile IT for Cloud 6) The transition of the perspective about security.
Big data is difficult to work with using relational databases and desktop statistics and visualization packages, requiring instead massively parallel software running on tens, hundreds or even thousands of servers. And Big data has 3V characteristics, volume(amount of data), velocity(speed of data in and out), and variety(range of data types and sources).
Gartner, now much of the industry, continue to use this model for describing Big Data. So, to have such characteristics and apply to many social field for Citizen are such an important thing especially in the next e-Government.
Both UNPOG’s Head and Inha University’s Prof. followed as below.
A new role of the government that relies less on state intervention, and more on market forces brought about by deregulation, decentralization, liberalization and privatization. Especially economic and financial crisis have changed the role of the public sector, its relations with non-public sectors, and accordingly e-Governance model in new IT era.
The Global Trends e-Government 2012 Survey analyzes how governments are using ICT to provide information, services and solutions to their citizens. As a result, underscoring the importance of technological advancements and the role of the government and sustainable development, it highlights the importance of e-Government and ICT as integral to sustainable development. and expanding the concept of e-Governance, it points to the need to place it at the centre of development thinking for a coherent, coordinated, and synergistic approach to the public sector solution. It draws attention to state-of-the art e-Government approaches that are being deployed in vanguard countries as case studies.
There are four stages of Online Services Development.
Stage 1 is Emerging information services. Government websites provide information on public policy, governance, laws, regulations, relevant documentation and government services provided. They have links to ministries, departments and other branches of government. Citizens are easily able to obtain information on what is new in the national government and ministries and have links to archived information. Stage 2 is Enhanced information services. Government websites deliver enhanced one-way or simple two-way e-communication between government and citizen, such as downloadable forms for government services and applications. The sites have audio and video capabilities and are multi-lingual. This also includes some limited e-services where citizens can request non-electronic forms and request for personal information, which will be mailed to their house.
Stage 3 is Transactional services. Government websites engage in two-way communication with their citizens, including requesting and receiving inputs on government policies. In this stage, transactions require some form of electronic authentication of the citizen’s identity to successfully complete the exchange. This stage includes the processing of non-financial transactions, e.g. downloading and uploading of forms, online completion of electronic tax filing, application for certificates, licenses, permits or e-voting. Stage 4 is Connected services. Government websites have changed the way to communicate with their citizens, and they are proactive in requesting information and opinions from the citizens using Web 2.0 and other interactive tools.
The e-services and e-solutions that are available cut across the departments and ministries in a seamless manner. Information, data and knowledge is transferred from government agencies through integrated applications.
This year Korea receives three awards, 1st place in global e-Government ranking and regional e-Government ranking, and global e-participation ranking. And now, Korea moving forward to SMART(seamless, mobile, anytime, real time, together) Government. Implementation strategy phases of SMART Government that are based on user-oriented service integration and multichannel integration (PC, smart phone, and smart TV), expanding partnerships and information sharing with local authorities, public enterprises and private sector and NGOs, making joint growth among e-Gov. stakeholders, Green IT system, public information and services available to people including response to new people’s needs (aging society, birth rate, disaster, safety and welfare system).
