1. Korea-US Joint Workshop on Digital Libraris August 10 - 12 Knowledge Management Vision in Korea 2000. 8. Oh, Kang-Tak okt@nca.or.kr National Computerization Agency

2. 1 Contents oIntroduction oA Brief on NCA oDescription of KRM Project in Korea oConclusions and proposals

3. National Computerization Agency2 Introduction oThe world is underway a paradigmatic change from the Industrial Age to the Information and Knowledge Age - In response, a number of countries have been investing in ‘knowledge and information management’ or ‘e-government’ projects. - Now sharing knowledge and information among agencies within government and between government and private and non-profit organizations has been a crucial issue. oIn Korea, the issue has been emphasized since the early 1990 - Korean government issued ‘Cyber Korea 21’ as a blueprint for Knowledge- based information nation. - Furthermore, President Kim unveiled a nation-wide plan to change the quality, nature, and flow of knowledge and information in his New Year’s Message.

4. National Computerization Agency3 A Brief on NCA oThe NCA provided information and IT-related services for the public, as well as for the private sector since established funded by MIC in 1987 - Over 13years, NCA has made efforts so that government including local governments and private organizations can make the best use of exciting opportunities provided by ITs - The NCA has made lots of contribution to building a knowledge-based information society in Korea oThe missions of NCA can be epitomized as follows: - planning and implementing IT policy at national level - providing extensive information sharing services among agencies within government and between central government and local governments - managing national knowledge and information collected - evaluating and auditing IT projects, etc.

5. National Computerization Agency4 Description of KRM Projects(1) oBased on both ‘Cyber Korea 21’ and ‘Act of KRM and its Action Plan’, NCA has launched a national-level KRM projects to better manage valuable knowledge and information as national resources since 1999 - The Act of KRM and its Action Plan was passed the congress and came into force on 29 July, 2000. - By the Act and its Action Plan, NCA was given the missions as follows:  making the national master plan and annual plan of KRM(Knowledge Resources Management)  supporting the implementation of KRM projects  providing the guidelines for KRM  evaluating performance of knowledge and information management of each agencies within government, etc.

6. National Computerization Agency5 Description of KRM Projects(2) oThe primary objectives of KRM projects are: - digitizing all valuable and useful knowledge and information to preserve and utilize at a national-level and - making a national integrated knowledge base or repositories to allow easy access to them free of time and location. - developing a National Knowledge and Information Portal System(NKIPS)to integrate all digitized knowledge and information oThus, the vision of KRM projects is to build a ‘e- Korea armed with knowledge and information network - The high-speed and robust knowledge and information network will enable Right person to easily get Right knowledge and information Right time at his desk : Actualizing 3Rs

7. National Computerization Agency6 NK&IPS High -speed Knowledge Network Protal System 1 Protal System 2 Protal System 3 Protal System 4 Protal System n Distributed Knowledge Information Retrieval System Each KRM projects Field portal systems Knowledge &information One-stop Users NK&IPS KRM projects in each fields … LibrariesSchools, R &D Centers Knowledge in private sector DBs One-stop Knowledge Information Delivery System Mobile Computing User s Enabling Right people access to Right knowledge information Right Time Short-term model long-term model High -speed Knowledge Network Models of NK&IPS

8. National Computerization Agency7 Description of KRM Projects(3) oTo accomplish the objectives and the vision, government is to plan to spend around US$550 million by 2002 as the first step - Of US$ 550, around 80% will be spent on a lot of projects to digitize lots of the knowledge and information in the following fields :  academic and research and development  scientific technology  national heritage and history  cultural and art assets  database in multiple foreign languages - The rest will be scheduled to be invested on the development and implementation of the NKPS.

9. National Computerization Agency8 Conclusions oThe implementation of the national KRM projects are strongly influenced by the capabilities of existing ITs oIn this respect, the technologies and issues discussed in this Workshop provide significant implications to all nations, which are interested in managing and using knowledge and information in a strategic way oFinally, this workshop will contribute to enhancing Korea - US collaboration on research to remove the technical barriers to the success of knowledge and information management