Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute Collaborates with Korea Expressway Corporation on Open Source

The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced on the 27th that it has decided to collaborate with Korea Expressway Corporation in the field of open source, cooperating to minimize open source risks when public institutions develop software (SW).

As the use of open source has increased recently in the SW industry ecosystem, managing security risks has become important. Companies are establishing open source governance systems and responding through mutual cooperation with other organizations.

Director Han Seong-su of ETRI (right) and Kim Jang-hwan, Head of Planning Headquarters at Korea Expressway Corporation (left), are signing a business agreement and taking a commemorative photo.

Starting with Korea Expressway Corporation, ETRI plans to apply the accumulated open source achievements to domestic public institutions and actively promote the spread of a safe open source research and development (R&D) ecosystem.

In particular, it intends to fully transfer know-how and experience regarding source code safety to be cautious of when using open source, systematic management and operation systems, risks of security attacks, and legal issues such as license infringement.

Additionally, Korea Expressway Corporation plans to apply ETRI’s open source SW operation know-how to actual data, advancing mobility innovation and the digital transformation of road operations.

The specific areas of cooperation between ETRI and Korea Expressway Corporation include ▲contributing to the dissemination and expansion of open source compliance systems ▲mutual cooperation to establish open source management systems ▲collaboration to strengthen open source license verification capabilities ▲joint cooperative response to changes in the SW ecosystem such as open source communities.

The collaboration between the two institutions is seen as the first step in spreading open source governance systems and is expected to contribute to the expansion of open source use in domestic public institutions and the development of the open source SW industry in the future.

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