Ministry of the Interior and Safety Forms 'Data-Based Administration Activation Committee'... Establishes 4 Major Strategies and 11 Detailed Tasks

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] With the full enforcement of the Act on the Promotion of Data-Based Administration, public services are being newly designed by utilizing data from administrative agencies and other public institutions. Going forward, services will be improved in a demand-tailored manner based on data such as the menus used on civil complaint websites by complainants, the number of input errors, and average dwell time. Administrative tasks will become more intelligent by analyzing real-time video data to automatically recognize crimes and dangerous situations and promptly notify the responsible personnel to induce swift initial responses.

On the 19th, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety held the first meeting of the 'Data-Based Administration Promotion Committee' and announced the promotion of the '1st Basic Plan for the Promotion of Data-Based Administration,' which centers on these contents. The committee will operate for the next two years, performing functions such as improving policies and systems related to data-based administration, mediating refusals to provide data, and reviewing candidate projects for data analysis.

This basic plan, established for the first time since the enforcement of the Data-Based Administration Act, sets promotion goals of "implementing scientific administration that actively utilizes data in policy decisions" and "providing intelligent administrative services that the public trusts and empathizes with," and prepares four major promotion strategies and eleven detailed promotion tasks.

The government will first support the provision of intelligent services by analyzing data. It will identify tasks that the public can feel, such as welfare, employment, and safety*, as well as international collaborative tasks like disaster and climate, and conduct data analysis. It will also analyze policy tasks that require strategic responses due to social structural changes and national agenda implementation, or urgent issue responses such as COVID-19, to support policy decisions.

The government will promote data joint utilization by building an integrated data infrastructure. It will select public data available for joint use and share it among agencies, and create conditions to also utilize private data such as card sales and floating population. Additionally, to support data analysis and joint utilization within the government, it will establish a data integrated management platform and promote data linkage with sector-specific big data platforms in areas such as transportation, finance, culture, and energy.

Efforts will also accelerate to establish systems for the early activation of data-based administration. Legal constraints limiting data joint utilization will be identified and improved, and data-based administration governance such as the Data-Based Administration Promotion Committee, agency-specific responsible officers' councils, and public-private innovation forums will be operated. A status check and evaluation system for managing data-based administration performance will be established, and incentives will be provided to public institutions that achieve excellent results. Furthermore, to improve work procedures through data-based administration, measures will be prepared to promote data utilization in agenda submissions, legislation and amendment, and new budget project applications.

Moreover, the way of working based on data will be innovated. The integration of data-based administration will be strengthened in all processes of policy formulation, execution, and evaluation. To enhance the data-based administration capabilities of public institutions, a 'Data Capability Enhancement Guideline' will be provided, and a systematic training program will be operated to cultivate data specialists.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety plans to share and continuously develop the data joint utilization guideline and data capability enhancement guideline with the committee based on past promotion achievements. Going forward, it aims to raise the ranking of the 'Data-Based Government' section in the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) Digital Government Evaluation from the current 3rd place to 1st place, and establish data-based administration to improve the efficiency of government work.

Jeon Hae-cheol, Minister of the Interior and Safety, said, "From this year until 2023 is a very important period that will determine the future of data-based administration," and added, "We will cooperate with related ministries to enhance the reliability and effectiveness of policies through scientific administration and provide customized public services to the people."

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