Gyeonggi-do to Provide Customized Welfare Services

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Going forward, residents of Gyeonggi Province will be able to conveniently access personalized welfare service information without submitting complicated documents.

On the 26th, Gyeonggi Province announced that it has developed a 'Simple Welfare Service Using My Data' system based on this concept and will provide it to residents.

My Data refers to a series of processes in which individuals actively provide their information in areas such as credit, asset management, purchasing, and telecommunications to receive customized services or benefits.

Since services using My Data require the user's consent as a prerequisite, user participation is the most important factor.

Accordingly, Gyeonggi Province plans to select welfare policies that have a high level of resident awareness and provide services utilizing My Data.

First, this year, among 108 welfare policies, about 10 welfare services targeting the youth?who are less resistant to new technologies and currently face inconvenience due to many required documents?will be selected for pilot service provision.

In the pilot service, if users consent, they can receive customized welfare information via KakaoTalk or text message and apply easily with a single click without paper documents.

For example, in the case of the Youth Basic Income (providing 250,000 KRW quarterly, totaling 1 million KRW annually to 24-year-old youth), youths under 24 who pre-register their My Data will automatically receive a notification message and can apply easily when they turn 24.

In such cases, the administrative authorities will be able to manage applicants' information more easily, which is expected to prevent issues such as duplicate payments or omissions.

The province plans to analyze the results of the pilot project and expand the service next year to cover all welfare policies of the province and municipal governments.

Lim Moon-young, Director of Future Growth Policy at the province, emphasized, "While major countries are already revising the legal basis for My Data, it is time to introduce My Data-related policy projects in the public sector that protect personal information while enabling data utilization. As a data-driven society is expected to expand after the COVID-19 pandemic, local governments will actively pursue administration to expand citizen services using My Data and guarantee residents' right to self-determination over their personal information."

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