Looking for Companies to Switch to Remote and Work-from-Home ... Busan City Also Recruiting Solution Providers

Implementation of This Year's Corporate Non-Face-to-Face Digital Transformation Support Project

Busan City Hall.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Busan City is seeking companies aiming to promote non-face-to-face work and non-face-to-face solution development firms together.

Busan City announced that it will promote the ‘2022 Non-Face-to-Face Transition Solution Support Project’ to create a non-face-to-face working environment for local small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

The ‘Non-Face-to-Face Transition Solution Support Project’ is a program that connects companies with non-face-to-face solution technologies such as remote and telecommuting (supplier companies) with companies that need these technologies (demand companies) to promote digital transformation of local SMEs.

The project connects supplier and demand companies, supporting supplier companies to expand their sales channels and helping demand companies improve their working environments.

First launched last year, non-face-to-face solutions were provided to a total of 48 companies. The project showed results such as increased productivity and cost reduction, and both supplier and demand companies participating in the project reported satisfaction.

This year, the number of demand companies will be significantly expanded to 90, allowing more local companies to introduce non-face-to-face work systems and transform their working styles. Supported solution areas include ▲video conferencing ▲telecommuting ▲network and security, with support funds up to 2 million KRW per company.

Supplier companies can apply for the support project from the 14th to the 25th of this month. They must have services developed through their own solution technology and be able to provide stable services to multiple users.

Busan City plans to recruit demand companies from April 4 to 21 after confirming the supplier companies. However, companies receiving support from similar projects by other institutions, such as the Ministry of SMEs and Startups’ ‘Non-Face-to-Face Voucher Support Project’ or the Ministry of Science and ICT’s ‘Cloud Service Voucher Project,’ are not eligible to apply.

Lee Jun-seung, Director of the Digital Economy Innovation Office of Busan City, said, “As non-face-to-face work such as telecommuting becomes a new trend due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, we hope this project will help local SMEs with digital transformation and provide a stepping stone for companies with non-face-to-face transition solution technologies to grow together.”

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