Open Data Strategy &

Portal of Korea Govt.

01. Open Data Strategy of Korea Govt.

02.

Beginning of Open Data in Korea

High school student develops Bus App in 2009 and provides it free to iPhone users

App reached No. 1 downloads in Korea Appstore but the service was suspended

Local govt. raised objection citing Location Information and Copyright laws

Citizens protested and the service resumed in 2 days

Open Data Law Enactment and Implementation

Make clear the citizens’ right to use public data and mandate public

sectors (institutions, organizations) to provide public data

Create high value added new industry foundation and jobs through

active private sector usage of public data

Scope(organization) – central & local govt, public sectors

Scope(data) – all data except data containing personal info, copyright, etc

Provision method – machine readable

Policy planning – Open Data Master Plan(3yr cycle) & Annual Plan

Foundation – Open Data Strategy Council, Chief Open Data Officer, Open

Data Center, etc

Governance Framework

Open Data Strategy Council : highest level Open Data policy decision making

MOI : public data inventory notice, evaluate agency performance, formulate master plan,

build Open Data foundation

Open Data Center : support Open Data provision & usage

Chief OD Officer : lead Open Data efforts at each agency

ODMC : dispute resolution regarding refusal and suspension of privision of public data

* MOI : Ministry Of The Interior

* ODMC : Open Data Mediation Committee

Open Data Center (NIA)

Chief Open Data Officer

(central & local public institutions)

ODMC

(dispute resolution)

MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR

(lead ministry)

Open Data Strategy Council Co-chaired by Prime Minister

Achievements after Open Data Law

Objective and Programs of Korea by 2017

Release of High Value

Data through

Open Data Portal

High Open Data

Quality Assurance

Create Public-Private

Cooperative Ecosystem

Expand Open Data

Foundation & Diffusion

to Provinces

2015 2017

10 36

29.5% 50%

30 100

395 700

High volume DB open

Open format data

Open data standards

New data services

Restructure govt data services with low usage and private sector alternatives

(criteria) downloads under 1000, visitors under 5000, existence of private sector alternatives

(plan) eliminate, integrate public sector websites : 4,182(32%) by 2017 eliminate 429(35%) public sector apps with private sector alternatives : weather, patent, geo-data

Restrict app development to those with high level of public of interest (e.g. to support disadvantaged groups)

Social welfare services stipulated in relevant laws, etc

Revision of Open Data Law(2nd half of 2015)

Provide basis for prohibition, survey, recommendation measures regarding data services similar to private sector

※ linking with universities and IT industry to launch common work space centers similar to Google

Campus, Cheku(車庫) Cafe

Need for Open Data Portal

Govt management

Lack of function(system) to systematically manage public data which is now

considered a new economic resource

Need to launch Govt Open Data System(register-manage-open)

Much time and costs consumed to contact, find and gather data from

individual agencies

Govt opening

Govt Open Data System needed to utilize public data from single source

“Govt. needed a single integrated window for

holistic management and opening of public data”

Intro. Of Open Data Portal

Open Data Portal

System to allow govt. holistic public data management and integrated opening

as stipulated in the Open Data Law

Separation & improvement of services for public sector staff and private sector users

Registration, management focused

functions for public sector staff

Data service focused functions

for private sector users

Portal Services

Portal Services

Comparison of Portal Operating Issues

- Collecting public data

Mindset at agency level

No obligation to open public data.

Nearly impossible to gather data

from agencies

Before law

Lack of mindset at agencies leads to

low implementation of data opening

Before

After law

After improvement

Obligation to open public data

Easier to gather data from agencies

Improving mindset through training,

Video training material distribution

from 2015

Portal Awareness

Strategy

Raising portal awareness through : press & media, monitoring group, SNS, developer

outreach, etc

Press & Media

• Press, media, internet portal,

newsletter

Developer outreach SNS

• Monitoring group, facebook,

twitter, etc

• Visiting outreach to potential

developers : University startup

clubs, meister high school

Open Data Usage Examples

Customized hospital info service

(AD Ventures )

(600K members, 30K daily visits),

1m USD revenue within 1 year, 1m USD investment

funding by foreign capital

Open Data Usage Examples

Parcel tracking info service

(SweetTracker)

Open Data Usage Examples

Transportation info service

((Locnall)

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