Ministry of the Interior and Safety Signs MOU to Establish Digital Government Cooperation Center with Paraguay Ministry of Information and Communication

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Korean digital government, which ranked first in the OECD digital government evaluation announced last year, is laying the groundwork to actively enter Paraguay.

On the 2nd, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced that it signed a memorandum of understanding online at the request of Paraguay's Ministry of Information and Communication to establish the 'Korea-Paraguay Digital Government Cooperation Center.'

The Digital Government Cooperation Center, to be established in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, will operate until 2023. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety will dispatch experts to the cooperation center and provide advice to the Paraguayan government on digital government policies and technologies, while promoting a cooperation project worth $1 million, including information system design and pilot introduction, joint research, and human exchange.

Paraguay has hoped to expand cooperation with Korea, a leading country in the digital government sector, to successfully promote national digital transformation and government innovation. Recently, it has been making efforts to actively promote digital government by establishing the 'Government Innovation Research Institute,' a digital government specialized agency under the Ministry of Information and Communication.

In the first year of operation of the cooperation center in 2021, research on the introduction of digital identification and a pilot project for national land and environment monitoring using satellite images are planned. From 2022, while preparing plans to expand and develop the first-year projects, key policies and projects necessary for promoting Paraguay's digital government will be discovered.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety plans to actively support Korean companies to participate in overseas projects based on the Korean-style digital government model discovered through the Korea-Paraguay Digital Government Cooperation Center, and to foster Paraguay as an excellent case in the Latin American region, creating an opportunity to expand digital government cooperation with neighboring countries.

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