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Ministry of the Interior and Safety Launches Consulting Project for Digital Notification and Payment Common Platform

[Asia Economy Reporter Jo In-kyung] An informatization consulting project is set to begin to create a 'one-stop service' that integrates notification tasks scattered across various public institutions, allowing citizens to view all the notices they want at a glance and make payments all at once.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on the 22nd that it will launch the 'Digital Notification and Payment Common Platform BPR/ISP Project,' a foundational system that digitizes various notifications and payments sent by government and public institutions to citizens and enables mobile service.

Through this service, citizens will be able to receive notices from any government or public institution via their preferred channels such as simple payment apps or card apps, and conveniently make payments using various payment methods.

Public institutions will also be able to reduce costs related to undelivered or returned mail caused by address errors, and minimize user inconvenience and administrative inefficiencies arising from different notification and payment channels depending on the issuing entity.

This project is a large-scale initiative jointly designed by government and public institutions with notification and payment functions, and built through cooperation between the private sector and multiple ministries by utilizing and linking private channels and payment platforms.

This year, the groundwork will be laid for the full-scale implementation next year by promoting informatization consulting and comprehensively reviewing legal and institutional improvements. Additionally, pilot services will be identified through inter-ministerial consultations, with plans to provide services to citizens starting next year.

To ensure that digitally marginalized groups do not miss out on benefits, plans include implementing a system usable on various devices, analyzing and designing notification and payment processes to eliminate blind spots, and providing education for the relevant groups as supplementary measures.

Im Chung-hyun, Director of the Regional Information Support Division at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, stated, "We will actively cooperate with private companies and related ministries to promote a digital notification and payment service that allows users to check everything at a glance and handle it all at once."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.