KDI Hosts 2021 Open Innovation Policy Platform Performance Sharing Conference

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyunjung] On the 22nd, KDI announced that it held the ‘2021 Open Innovation Policy Platform Performance Sharing Conference’ jointly with the Korea Information Society Development Institute, the Science and Technology Policy Institute, and the Korea Institute of Public Administration.

The four research institutes have been promoting the ‘Open Innovation Policy Platform’ project this year, each focusing on data ecosystem, smart mobility, smart services, and smart production, respectively, presenting innovative policy ideas and alternatives reflecting field opinions. The Open Innovation Policy Platform project is a program where various field experts and research institutes communicate and collaborate to explore and design policy measures in line with social innovation and changes using new technologies such as the 4th Industrial Revolution and digital transformation, aiming to create innovative growth engines that meet the demands of the times.

This conference plans to share data and digital-based innovative growth ideas and measures designed through field experts and public opinion hearings from each institution and to conduct in-depth discussions to further develop them.

The conference consists of four sessions, proceeding with reports on the results of working group operations for each session, followed by policy proposal presentations and discussions by experts. In his opening remarks, KDI President Hong Jang-pyo said, “The Open Innovation Growth Platform project was initiated to create synergy from collective intelligence by field experts and policymakers and to reflect the derived results in policy formulation. The policy proposals shared today are highly meaningful as they contain vivid voices from the field.”

To prevent the spread of COVID-19, only a limited number of presenters and discussants per session will attend on-site, and anyone can participate through live streaming on the Open Innovation Policy Platform YouTube channel.

Meanwhile, as part of this year’s Open Innovation Policy Platform project, KDI held an international conference on December 14th sharing regional innovation cases using data from Quebec, Canada, titled ‘Data and AI-based Regional Innovation.’ On the 23rd, it plans to hold the ‘Young Working Group Results Presentation,’ which discovers regional-based innovation policy ideas centered on university students and shares participatory policy design experiences.

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