[NIA]

IT Cooperation Project

NIA is carrying out various projects to develop the economy and society, promote interests, and reinforce friendly relationship with partner countries through technical cooperation in form of joint tasks and consulting in the area of ICT.

NIA and partner countries each contribute 1 million dollars for a three-year span to carry out cooperation activities; from the year 2003 to 2019, we worked with 10 countries and carried out a total of 122 joint cooperative projects.

In addition, NIA is promoting cooperation in the areas of big data and AI with Kazakhstan and Malaysia from 2020 to 2022, in line with the government's New Southern and New Northern policies.

Operation Procedure of ITCP

Select a country for a partner country		￮ Select a country from among countries that have signed an MOU with the MSIT on ICT cooperation and/or that have had active IT cooperation activities with Korea
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Discuss on the operation and the cooperation area		￮ Discuss on ITCP operation details including operation structure and method. ￮ Discuss on the representative joint cooperation project and the implementation details.
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Make consent on the operation details		￮ Make consent on the operation details together with the designated operating agency of the partner country ※ Sign the CA (Collaboration Arrangement) or Make decision in the Joint ICT Committee
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Hold Joint Steering Committee meeting (each year)		￮ Make approval for joint cooperation projects and the budget planning ※ Operation details of the Joint Steering Committee will follow the CA or decisions of the Joint ICT Committee.
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Implement Joint Cooperation Projects (each year)		￮ Implement joint cooperation projects by selecting the Korean IT companies.
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Evaluate the project outcome and plan for the next year (each year)		￮ Evaluate the joint cooperation project outcome of the year and plan for the projects in the next year.

Operation Structure of ITCP

Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) (Korea)			ICT Ministry (Partner country)
Supervision			Supervision

National Information Society Agency (NIA) (Korea)			Designated Operating Agency (Partner country)
Coordination, Support and Covering expenses for joint projects and joint programs			Coordination, Support and Covering expenses for building & facilities, joint projects and joint programs


	Joint Steering Committee
	- Provision of principles & guidance for the ITCP operation - Identification of priority areas of cooperation - Review and approval of joint projects and programs - Monitoring of the status of joint projects and programs - Review of the results of joint projects and programs - Review and approval of financial statements and others

Advisory Group
Recommendations, Technical/policy consultation & input

		Korea-Partner country ITCP

Operation history of ITCP (2003~)

Operation history of ITCP (2003~)
ITCP	Duration	Partner Ministry	Partner operating agency
Korea-Mexico	Oct.2003 ~ Nov.2006	SCT (Mexico)	E-Mexico
Korea-Chile	Apr.2004 ~ Sep.2006	MOE (Chile)	Univ. of Chile
Korea-Turkey	Mar.2007 ~ Dec.2009	MOT (Turkey)	TURKSAT
Korea-South Africa	Oct.2008 ~ Dec.2010	MESI(South Africa)	MESI
Korea-Bulgaria	Oct.2010 ~ Dec.2012	MTITC (Bulgaria)	Sofia Univ.
Korea-Vietnam	Jun.2011 ~ Jun.2013	MIC (Vietnam)	AITA Authority of IT Application
Korea-Romania	Jul.2014 ~ Dec.2016	MIS(Romania)	ICI
Korea-Colombia	Oct.2014 ~ Dec.2016	MinTIC(Colombia)	MinTIC
Korea-Brazil	Mar.2017~ Dec.2019	MCTIC(Brazil)	INATEL
Korea-Belarus	Mar.2017 ~ Dec.2019	MCI(Belarus)	MCI(Belarus)
Korea-Kazakhstan	Sep.2023 ~ Dec.2025	MDAI(Kazakhstan)	ZERDE
Korea-Viet Nam	Jul.2023~Dec.2025	MIC(Viet Nam)	Authority of Digital Transformation(ADT), Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology(PTIT), Authority of Information Technology and Communication Industry(AICTI)

Examples of the Joint Cooperation projects

Examples of the Joint Cooperation projects
Korea-Mexico	Developed a Strategic model for convergence to digital city Initiated a pilot service of mobile civil applications for the public Transferred Korean RFID technologies to Mexico Provided consulting on the model of government information search service
Korea-Chile	Developed web-based informatization solutions for SMEs Provided technology/policy advice on Wibro and T-DMB technologies to Ministry of Transportation and Telecom-munications Developed RFID applications for Chilean libraries and garment industries Provided IT education to approximately 1000 Chilean
Korea-Turkey	Provided consulting for Turkey's next generation e-government projects Provided advice to Turksat TV on constructing an e-government service platform Established a Turksat e-government 2.0 service platform Participated in a Turkish government's e-education project
Korea-South Africa	Studied the current status and improvement schemes of ICT education in South Africa Developed the guidelines for using embedded software jointly with Konkuk University Developed multimedia-based educational materials jointly with Korea Education and Research Information Service
Korea-Bulgaria	Established eService Technology Framework(ETF) adopting Korea eGovFrame Conducted a eService project for Bulgarian Railway Agency
Korea-Vietnam	Established information system on stare management operations at local level Conducted pilot project on emergency calling based on GPS and mobile devices
Korea-Romania	Conducted a consulting on Romania’s PKI and Cyber Security Provided Korea’s insight in building cloud computing system Pilot Project for National Digital Library of Romania
Korea-Colombia	Conducted CERT training course Consultancy for Colombia e-Trade master plan BigData governance knowledge transfer
Korea-Brazil	Consultancy on IoT (Smart Home, Smart Building) Service Smart Farm Drone Monitoring System on LTE, 5G Network. 5G AI Smart Campus Test Environment Demonstration
Korea-Belarus	Consulting on National Paperless Trade System Expert Training on Information Security and CERT Consultancy on National Digital Archiving System Consultancy on the design of information system standardization and framework
Korea-Kazakhstan	Educational training courses for employees in the field of data and Development of analytical cases based on big data using open source tools(R) Building Platforms for big data analysis (Testbed) and use and building big data capacities through data governance and ethics education Proceeding the development of analysis model and small scale services in cooperation with stakeholders(University, government organizations, etc)
Korea-Malaysia	Establishment of Ai-based Smart Farm Models in Malaysia Proof of Concept (pilot) project Implementation of Ai based Smart Agriculture in Malaysia Pilot System Establishment of AI-based Smart Agriculture in Malaysia