Knowledge Management Vision in Korea

The presentation material of Washington D.C. Conference , 10th–12nd Aug., 2000.

Knowledge Management Vision in Korea

- Roles and Missions of NCA -

1Yoo, Cheonsoo and 2O, Gangtak

Dept. of IT Support and Planning, Information Technology Services Division, National Computerization Agency

Sejongro-Daewoo Bldg.167, Naesu-Dong Jongro-Gu, Seoul Korea 110-070

Fax: +82-2-733-6038

Introduction to NCA(National Computerization Agency)

The NCA was a non profit governmental organization founded in 1987 with the contribution of the MIC(Ministry of Information and Communication). For 13 years, the NCA has tried to help the public and private sector to make the best use of the new and exciting opportunities provided by ITs all over Korea. The NCA has contributed to build a knowledge-based information society by working more closely with its partners in the public and private sectors. The missions of the NCA are as follows:

 to provide expertise in preparing and implementing the annual action plans for

national information promotion.

 to construct KII(Korea Information Infrastructure) and to develop and maintain

information systems for public information sharing on the basis of KII.

 to establish IT standards and evaluate IT projects

 to support the nationwide Knowledge Resources Management(KRM)

The project of Knowledge Resources Management in Korea

The Act of Knowledge Resources Management was recently passed and is to come into force on the 29th July, 2000. By the Act, the NCA was given the missions to make the national master plan and annual action plan of KRM and support theire successful execution.

A month ago a task force team was organized to do these works. The team composed of 5 senior researchers, who have various backgrounds such as computer science, public and business management, and library science, etc.

We - Dr. Yoo and O - are the members of the team. We are much involved in the project as main participants. Especially, we have already completed the guidelines for managing knowledge resources to be used by the public officers. In the near future we are planning to design a contingent model of evaluating the knowledge resource management applicable in the public sector.

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1. He is a principal researcher of the NCA. He received Ph. D degree from KAIST. His major is computer science. He is interested in database systems and software engineering. Tel.: +82-2-398-9157, E-Mail: .

1. He is a senior researcher of the NCA. He received Ph. D degree from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. His major is public management information systems. He is in interested in the evaluation of IT effectiveness and knowledge management. Tel.: +82-2-398-9043, E-Mail: .