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Open Government Data Policies

in Republic of Korea

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Governance Framework of OGD KOREA

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Law & Masterplan of OGD KOREA

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Other instruments of OGD KOREA

CONTENTS

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Governance Framework of

Open Government Data

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Definition of Open Government Data

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“Open Government Data refers to

data created and retained by the

government, municipal organizations,

and public organizations that is available to people”

In order to proactively release open government data and to create new

business opportunities by analyzing, the Korean government

enacted the “Open Data Law” in 2013 and

has been implementing a variety of policies ever since

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Governance Framework of Open Government Data

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  • ODSC (deliberating body under the prime minister and co-chaired by private representatives)

- Deliberate, coordinate, monitor and evaluate government’s major

open government data policies, plans and their implementation

- Include each ministers and more than half of private representatives

  • MOIS (leading ministry): Open gov’t data master planning & evaluate implementation, create a data infrastructure, release datasets, etc.
  • NIA (main institution in charge of OGD to support design and implementation of policy/strategies): The open data center within NIA to support an OGD release and reuse of all governments and institutions
  • ODMC (mediation of disputes): mediate disputes for release of open gov’t data refused or suspended by public institutions

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Governance Framework : Open Data Mediation Committee

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Committee has been created to ensure user who experiences problems from ministry/public bodies that refuse to provide datasets, may seek effective remedies through a simple procedure of dispute mediation

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Governance Framework : Open Data Mediation Committee

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Anyone who visit national data portal can request datasets not provided in the portal

Process of Request

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Cases of Open Data Mediation Committee

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Historical Data of Cow

Farm Registration Number, Historical Data of Cow, location of livestock breeding facilities

Data of fire accident

Location of fire accident(deleting room number)

Data of facilities for the disabled

Parking lot, elevator, toilets, entrance that disabled can use

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Governance Framework : Open Data Forum(PPP)

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Open Data Forum (http://odf.or.kr/)

A Public-Private Partnership Community in cooperation with stakeholders to solve economic and social problems using open government data(16 members)

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- (Members) Civil society, Company, academy and institution, Press/Media,

Government and public institutions

- (Research and projects) To improve open data policies and promote reuse of open

data in private sectors

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Governance Framework : Open Data Forum(PPP)

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Examining Disaster Safety through Open Data

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Law and Master Plan of

Open Government Data

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Purpose and instruments of Open Government Data Law

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Improve quality of people's lives and create new business opportunities by

making it mandatory to proactively release

open government data

Purpose

Contents

| Basic Principles | Guarantee people `s equality in their access to open data and obligate institution to provide open data

| Open Data Strategy Council| Under the Prime minister / establishment of Master Plan / deliberation and decision on datasets to be released

| Master Plan/Evaluation of Status | Develop Master Plan(every 3 years), pan-government data evaluation(yearly)

| Officers Responsible for | Designate a general manager for each institution

| Establishment of Foundation for Provision| Data catalogue, portal operation, quality maintenance, standardization

| Preventing duplicated/similar OGD applications with private sectors| Preventing duplicated/similar OGD applications with private sectors

| Mediation of Disputes | Establish and manage the Open Data Mediation Committee

| Open Data Center| Open Data Center shall be established and operated within jurisdiction of the National Society Agency

[ OGD Law ]

Composed of Chapter 6, Article 40

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Progress of Key Policies and Strategies of OGD

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  • 1st Open Data Master Plan (2013-2017)
  • 2nd Open Data Master Plan (2017-2019)
  • 3rd Open Data Master Plan (2020-2022)
  • 4th Open Data Master Plan(2023-2025)
  • 1st National Core Data Release Plan (2015-2017)
  • 2nd National Core Data Release Plan (2017-2019)
  • 3rd National Core Data Release Plan(2020-2022)
  • 4th National Core Data Release Plan(2023-2025)

Policies

(mid & long-term)

Implementation Plan

(Yearly)

  • Open Data Implementation Plan (2014~)
  • Annual National Core (open government) Data Release Plan (2015~)

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Process of developing 4th Open Data Mater Plan

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Name of the plan : 4th Open Data Master Plan

Period : 2023 ~ 2025

Legal basis : Open Data Law article 7

Scope : 67 institutions

Providing guidance for developing individual open data plan

MoIS

Submit individual open data plan to MoIS

All Gov

Developing master plan & collecting opinions

MoIS

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Deliberate final master plan

ODSC

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Meeting with private sectors from all sectors

Held public seminars through ODF

Deliberation of working committee(vision)

Deliberation of ODSC(vision & direction)

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Public survey through data portal

Collecting opinions from all institutions

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Provision of guidance for developing plan

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Briefing session for all institutions

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Submission of individual open data plan

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Developing master plan on the basis of individual one

Collecting opinions for draft

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Deliberation of final master plan by ODSC

Overall

Progress

Process

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Main Projects of

4th Open Data Master Plan

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Part 1. Releasing Data

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Releasing Data by ‘OPEN BY DEFAULT’

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Analysis for tables classified as Non-disclosure

  • Full-scale analysis of reasons for non-disclosure

(each institutions are mandated

to put relevant law for non-

disclosure)

Selecting final tables that can go public out

  • Through thorough analysis, table with the possibility of going public(released) is finally selected

Types

No. of

Org

Pre-released

No. of Exemption

No. of

Non-disclosure

No. of Non-disclosure that can go public

Central Gov

39

6,028

5,166

59,734

25,841

Affiliated Inst

118

666

2,508

21,876

7,549

Local Gov(Dis)

16

1,034

6,935

36,731

18,746

Local Gov

192

952

13,784

20,551

12,965

Public Inst

186

5,402

27,344

167,097

92,093

Public Local Inst

34

39

1,001

2,496

693

Total

585

14,121

56,738

308,485

157,887

Identifying Supporting DB

(Exempted)

  • E-mail system, human resources operational system, temporary and log system and etc

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“There are number of datasets(308,485) in DB of all 585 ministries, local government, public institutions, WHY THEY CAN’T GO PUBLIC ? “

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Releasing Data by ‘OPEN BY DEFAULT’ : Analysis of non-disclosure

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    • If reason for non-disclosure is empty, data should go public
    • Review the possibility of releasing by comparing actual table column with the reasons for non-disclosure in the meta-information of each table

System

Name of table

Name of Column

Status

Reason for non-disclosure

Education Management

System

Teaching hours

Educational classification, date, hours, personnel

Non-disclosure

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Education Management

System

Print out history of certificate

Education classification, output data and time, sequence number

Non-disclosure

With system information, risk of hacking exists

EMPTY

Reason is not valid

Check for all data classified as non-disclosure

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Releasing Data by ‘OPEN BY DEFAULT’ : Sensitive data

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Check for non-disclosure data that contains sensitive data

    • If it contains personal information, guide them to de-identify
    • Social security number, name should be masked and go public

Raw

data

Masking process

De-identified

DATA

SSN

Sex

Hospitalization Date

Age

Disease

770914-1234567

M

2015/06/23

39

Flu

850930-1234567

M

2015/10/01

31

Flu

710119-2345678

F

2014/01/21

45

High BP

770619-2345678

F

2014/09/23

39

Hepatitis

SSN

Sex

Date

Age

Disease

7*****-1******

M

2015/**/**

39

Flu

8*****-1******

M

2015/**/**

31

Flu

7*****-2******

F

2014/**/**

45

High BP

7*****-2******

F

2014/**/**

39

Hepatitis

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National Core Data Project

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Data with Nation’s priority, high demand from private sector

Analysis of global report and frequency of keywords on issues

Final

Derive the area

Comprehensive Analysis of national agenda, social issues, technology trends in new industries

Task Force

Members of strategy council, private experts undergo analysis of policy cycles and needed datasets out of suggested area

Survey & Interview

Interview with business and public reference survey conducted, candidate projects are singled out

Develop national core data release plan in every 3 year, 20 datasets are released in a year

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National Core Data Project

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Data with Nation’s priority, high demand from private sector

119 Emergency Information Data

  • Ambulance transport information, emergency patient first aid information, vehicle information, transported patient status(70,000cases)

Research on emergency situation, trends, efficiency of emergency administration

Infectious Disease Treatment

  • Infectious disease vaccine drug product information, approval information, treatment drug product information, maximum daily does per medication(137,062 cases)

Research on health and safety, development of new products in the pharmaceutical fields

Flood Response Information Data

  • Flood response information (Urban flood map, river overflow map) to prevent the loss of life or property damage from ‘storm, tidal wave, heavy rainfall’

Utilizing data for navigation services alarming the flood and providing ultimate route / Research on flood prevention

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National Core Data Project

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PropTech (Property technology)

LegalTech (Legal technology)

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Other instruments of

Open Government Data

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National Data Portal

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Integrated and central management platform for registering and publishing datasets for all governments and public institutions

User

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Open Data Portal (data.go.kr)

  • File data in 16 categories
  • 36 National Core Open Data
  • 91 Standardized data

Register to inventory

of open data

File Data

Open Data Inventory Mgmt.

  • Open API in 16 categories
  • 48 National Core Open Data

Open API

  • Data 1st Street
  • Request Open Data

Request Data

  • Success Stories
  • Developer Network
  • LOD Service
  • Q&A, FAQ

Others

Visualization

Grid

Chart

Map

File data

Open API

Supplier

Citizen

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Reuse

(downloads,

API)

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Public�Institutions

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01

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Others

(National

Assembly

and etc.)

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Developer

Private

Company

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Academia

Publishing

Central

Gov't

Local

Gov't

Virtual Server Storage S/W N/W

National Information System Infrastructures (G-Cloud)

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Preventing development of services similar to private sector

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VS

National Weather Agency

Small Data Company

Preliminary Consultation : adjusting the details of the project to prevent overlapping investment, interconnection, and joint use of informatization projects

Annual extensive research: Research on All apps on store, website of government bodies

Regular Report: User can make a report

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Supporting SMEs

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Start a Business

Growing Up Business

Incubate

ideas and services

Education, Consulting

& Investment

Program to foster entrepreneurship, customized business consulting with private and public sector collaboration

Incubation of ideas,

services and products

Open data challenge competitions, hackathons etc.

Office space for entrepreneurs,

open spaces for ideas exchange and development, and testing their services

Comprehensive start-up support center

(which is called Open Square-D) in Seoul, Busan, Gangwon, Daegue.

Supporting startups

Providing professional assistance to entrepreneurs covering full spectrum of startup development services

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Achievement of Open Data

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Release

Reuse

Services

downloads

5,272

74,229

x 14

2013

2022.12

services

13,923

43,937,406

x 3,155

2013

2022.12

42

2,797

x 66

2013

2020.12

datasets

The 1st in the OECD OURdata Index 2023 measuring government efforts on aspects of Data availability, Data accessibility and Government support for data re-use for 4 consecutive times since 2015

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Recommendation

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Legal and Regulatory Environment

Central open data infrastructure

  • Establishing necessary legal framework and guidelines
  • Establishing adequate institutional governance as a critical success factor for sustainability and continuity
  • One stop-shop open government data portal is essential tools to promote data-driven, multi-stake holder collaboration

Promoting open data reuse for value co-creation

  • Establishing partnership with data users such as Civil society, Business, Academia, and engagement by user group

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Open Government Data Policies in Republic of Korea