Kakao Cloud, Overseas Digital Government Officials Learn

Eight deputy ministers and senior officials from eight countries participating in the 12th BSEC (Black Sea Economic Cooperation) Digital Government Invitation Training are taking a commemorative photo at the Kakao Enterprise office in Pangyo. (Photo by Kakao Enterprise)

Kakao Enterprise announced on the 3rd that it was the only private company to conduct training for overseas public officials at the ‘12th BSEC (Black Sea Economic Cooperation) Digital Government Invitation Training.’

At this BSEC invitation training, Kakao Cloud, competing with global cloud providers, showcased its technological capabilities along with excellent cases of public institutions transitioning to private cloud. In particular, the outstanding cases from public institutions attracted more attention as rare examples of cloud-native transformation in the public sector.

The BSEC invitation training program was conducted for 13 high-ranking officials, including vice ministers, from 8 of the 13 member countries: Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Greece, North Macedonia, Georgia, T?rkiye, and Serbia, to learn about Korea’s digital government.

This is not Kakao Enterprise’s first overseas public official training. On September 11, it conducted a visit training for 24 vice ministers and senior officials from 7 countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia) through the ‘Digital Transformation Practices in Korea’ program organized by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Kakao Enterprise has been continuously participating as a private cloud company in overseas national training programs for the spread of digital government by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety and the National Information Society Agency (NIA). This is because, in demand surveys targeting overseas digital government officials, the majority preferred the Kakao community, which possesses excellent technological capabilities and outstanding public cloud transition cases.

Among the Kakao Cloud technologies introduced that day, ▲SmartNIC and ▲TGW (Transit Gateway) attracted participants’ attention. SmartNIC is a network interface card (NIC) jointly developed with global tech company AMD that integrates cloud infrastructure to allow users to fully utilize CPU resources. TGW is a technology that connects different clouds, networks, or VPCs in a standardized way to configure networks without performance degradation.

During the presentation of excellent public cloud transition cases, numerous questions from participating overseas public officials demonstrated high engagement. They attentively listened to the overall direction of the cloud-native transformation plan for the digital platform government and the preparations required. A case where a public institution that transitioned to Kakao Cloud achieved a 20-30% cost reduction after cloud-native transformation through microservices architecture (MSA) design drew particular attention.

Alexey Nistria, Secretary-General of BSEC, said, “Member countries admired the rapid development speed of Korea’s public cloud sector and the innovative improvement of government services.” He added, “Especially, the global technological capabilities and excellent cases demonstrated by Kakao Cloud provided great motivation to participants and will serve as a foundation for the development of digital governments in each country.”

Jae-han Lee, Vice President in charge of business at Kakao Enterprise, said, “We are grateful to participate in this training, recognized for Kakao Cloud’s technological capabilities leading public cloud-native transformation and competing globally.” He added, “Kakao Cloud will continue to take the lead in spreading cloud-native references in the public sector so that the digital platform government can continuously develop and become a model case for overseas digital governments.”

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