It is said that the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation has extensive development under way so that users can get information anywhere by combining information about things from agricultural products, lodgings at a private house and tourism onto a single ubiquitous network.
About the convergence of such information, president Kim Kwang-ok, Information Technology Division, National Agricultural Cooperative Federation explains in an interview with The Korea IT Times: "Consequently, people come to be able to continue their work with notebook or PDA etc. in a moving car too, know immediately on which product of any home is the best product, which lodge in a private house is good and which tourist resort is optimal."
Since National Agricultural
Cooperative Federation's basic principle is to improve farmers' lives and agricultural product circulation quality, Kim has committed the federation to do its best in step with developing IT technology.
For instance, he introduced that Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is at the height of its development due to ceaseless propulsion. By attaching chips to circulating watermelons and by reading them with a recognition terminal like a cellular phone, consumers can know all the information about the product. And, if the watermelon is not purchased, the Information Technology Division will enable recall it instantly, Kim said.
Since the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation's information system began its affairs this year, the Information Technology Division will plan to add its features as a development laboratory even further, he added.
Benchmarks from every nation in the world
In a nutshell, the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation's Information Technology Division generalizes the entire IT division at the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, according to Kim.
As the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation's business is divided greatly into education support projects for farmers, circulation businesses for agricultural products, stock raising, and finance businesses, and from the production of agricultural products up to its sales including circulation, the Information Technology Division supports all IT affairs necessary for operating such businesses.
President Kim explains that the Division supports year round connections in real-time with around 600 staff members. He also says that the Division holds a plan to ceaselessly knock on overseas market of home-made software as well by teaming up with prominent software industry corporations at home.
As regarding Korea's latent energy in the field of IT, the president introduces that each country's national agricultural cooperative federations from Japan, or Southeast Asia come to see our developed IT in large numbers, adding that a whole raft of requests asking for introduction come from each nations of the world to learn our excellent system.
Ultimately ubiquitous
In regard to this year's staple project, Kim particularly regards credit system construction as the most important among this year's major projects.
This credit system, which is scheduled to be completed on October 2008, is a concept that aims to construct a customeroriented convenient finance IT system.
By means of such efficiency drive of IT affairs, Kim notes that first of all, there are numerous changes internally such as providing customers with full services online 24 hours a day.
National Agricultural Cooperative Federation is going to construct a BPR system business project to innovate affairs process, which is scheduled to operate on October next year starting from last June this year.
As another efficiency project, there is a user channel integration system due to be completed till the end of this year. Since international accounting standard must be observed from the forthcoming 2010, National Agricultural Cooperative Federation will allow such things to be able to used in all branches, Kim explained.
Moreover, the president said that National Agricultural Cooperative Federation is designing to operate capital market integration law and risk management strengthening etc. from February 2008, which is expected to be finalized at the end of this year.
Kim commits that National
Agricultural Cooperative Federation plans to allow its 40 million customers to be able to do all affairs at their convenience no matter which equipment they use to connect to the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation site 24 hours a day 365 days a year.
He further commits that the Division will forge an environment of convenience for customers, eliminating things such as customer waiting times, in order to construct an advanced finance system.
Ceaseless NACF computerization network
He affirms that Korea's system isn't behind in comparison with advanced countries, adding that even Japan's highranking officials admitted that our system goes ahead of Japan by several stages. In terms of finance product capital operation or finance business at large, we are frankly a little behind, but there are not any countries like Korea which provide customers with complete service in the IT field, he points out.
IT technology will be used furthermore in backing the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation's cutting-edge product development, Kim forecasts. For reference, the Federation is forging its second informatization complex in Anseong, Kyeonggi province, as part of a ceaseless NACF computerization network to cope with in an emergency.
The president said: "When we recall last 9/11 terror, it was possible for American enterprises to recover the information again despite of such a big disaster since they were accustomed to back up to other hardware directly."
Considering the importance of NACF, facilities to be able to recover everything through back-up are indispensable for NACF's system too, he said, stressing once again the importance of a ceaseless National Agricultural Cooperative Federation computerization network plan.
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