Korea with e-Government building experience

On January 1, 2007, in Hanoi, the Institute of Information and Communication Strategy (NIPTS) cooperated with the Korean Information Society Development Institute (KISDI) to organize a workshop on ICT development. One of the main contents of the workshop is to discuss the orientation of building e-government (e-Government) in Vietnam.

From November 2006, a similar seminar on ICT development between the two countries took place in Seoul (South Korea) with content sharing experiences from both sides. This workshop is the next activity to achieve the goals of cooperation.

The main theme of the workshop was the policy of liberalizing the ICT market and building infrastructure for e-government. On the Korean side, Mr. Yun Young Min shared his experience with the paper ' Building infrastructure for e-Government: Challenges and solutions '; and Choi Yong-je presented the ' License system for liberalizing telecommunications market '.

On the Vietnamese side, Mr. Ngo Quoc Thai, representative of NIPTS, also made a draft of the overall plan for construction of e-government in Vietnam. The plan has important implications for the implementation process, avoiding overlapping projects. Currently, many countries in the region such as Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia are promoting the construction of e-government. This is even more in the eyes of our many lessons and challenges.

According to an expert of NIPTS, one of the major challenges now is human resources (the state administrative apparatus must have sufficient qualifications to keep up with the reality, meeting the requirements of the overall plan). Moreover, e-government is not a matter of technology but of economic - social and institutional issues. In the world, many e-government projects have failed due to its complexity and most of them are caused by people. Each IT project itself has difficulties from human problems - requiring top management to have high determination.