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Date: Fri Sep 04 2009 - 04:04:10 CDT

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http://www.koreaittimes.com/story/4865/government-develops-korean-e-government-model

By Chung Myung-je
Korean IT
September 2nd, 2009

Cyber security has emerged as a matter of significant concern. The
government is determined to drastically increase the portion of cyber
security policies, establish a DDoS response system, overhaul the
current cyber security system, expand investment in this regard, and
create a cyber environment in which the people can safely use the
Internet.

Back in June, the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, the
government agency in charge of cyber security, observed the 22nd
Information Culture Month. The Ministry cooperated with the Korea
Internet & Security Agency in hosting various kinds of cyber
security-related events during the month. In early July, major
government and mass media websites were paralyzed by massive DDoS
attacks. Although they recovered from the attacks, the cyberterrorism
reminded everybody once again of the importance of cyber security.

New ICT Environment

"Rapid changes have recently occurred in the ICT (Information and
Communication Technology) environment. As a result, an open and sharing
Web 2.0 environment has been spreading on a global scale; social
networking has come into the limelight; and u-life has emerged as a new
mode of living," said Minister of Public Administration and Security Lee
Dal-gon in a recent interview with the Korea IT Times.

With ubiquitous intelligence, convergence, and green growth emerging as
the latest ICT trends, Korea, like other countries, is still at the
stage of introducing those trends. Nonetheless, Korea is believed to
have already entered the fifth and last stage of the UN's
informatization development and management model. The five stages of the
UN's model are 1) emergence of technologies, 2) enhanced information, 3)
interactive information access, 4) transactional information management,
and 5) connected and integrated information applications.

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