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Digital platform committee vows to offer paperless gov't services

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Koh Jean, chairman of the Presidential Committee on the Digital Platform Government, speaks during a press conference at the Korea Press Center building in Seoul, Tuesday. Korea Times photo by Baek Byung-yeul
Koh Jean, chairman of the Presidential Committee on the Digital Platform Government, speaks during a press conference at the Korea Press Center building in Seoul, Tuesday. Korea Times photo by Baek Byung-yeul

By Baek Byung-yeul

The government is working on providing an integrated government system that minimizes paperwork for government services, according to the head of the Presidential Committee on the Digital Platform Government, Tuesday.

"Our goal is to ensure that people do not submit documents. It is the fault of the government system that government agencies demand so much paperwork from people," Koh Jean, chairman of the Presidential Committee on the Digital Platform Government, said during a press conference in Seoul.

"If agencies need information, they can exchange it between themselves. We will create a government system where various agencies can share information in the future," Koh added.

The committee was launched in September as part of President Yoon Suk Yeol's pledges to provide administrational services based on artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific data.

Koh, who was appointed as the inaugural chairman of the committee, said he told the president that the committee would need at least six months to come up with visible plans.

"Last September, I asked the president to give time until March. I promised him that we will come up with a vision jointly made by committee members from both the government side and the private side," Koh said adding "we will present our roadmap to the public in March."

To give a hint about its roadmap, Koh cited the disclosure of public data to help people establish their small businesses more easily.

"The committee aims to release government data to support people who want to launch their businesses. People will even have access to the information on analysis data of commercial districts," he said.

The committee is comprised of six subcommittees ― AI and data; infrastructure; service; innovating approaches to work; industry ecosystem and information protection. During the past five months, they met over 100 times. About 140 tasks were initially brought up and the selection process is underway in consideration of its feasibility.

Speaking about obstacles, Koh said that establishing legal limits for data sharing between government agencies is something that the committee must address.

"We are placing importance on utilizing and sharing data between agencies. We are trying to improve the legal system so that the agencies can easily share data," he said.


Baek Byung-yeul baekby@koreatimes.co.kr


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