NIA opened the Future Strategy Center at its head office location in Seoul at the Big Data and Future Planning Global Conference that was held at NIA on September 18, 2014.



Korea’s new Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP), Yang-hee Choi was on hand at the opening ceremony of the Future Strategy Center along with other dignitaries including NIA President Kwang-Soo Jang among others.



After the opening ceremony, the Big Data and Future Planning Global Conference was held where keynote speeches were delivered by the MSIP Minister Choi and officials from Singapore, Gartner and Mckinsey. The conference was attended by more than 200 domestic and international participants.



MSIP Minister Choi in his remarks stated that it was the right time to utilize big data analytics and collaboration in order to better prepare and make predictions that would help to formulate policies that would help both socially and economically in the future. He went on to add that this conference and the opening of the Future Strategy Center would be a good opportunity to enable future scientific and objective study.



NIA President Kwang-Soo Jang welcomed the opening of the Future Strategy Center at NIA in his Welcoming Remarks at the ceremony and stated that with Korea’s Big Data Center as well as the Open Data Center of which both are housed at NIA, these centers could be leveraged in order to make better analysis and better predictions for the future society. He also mentioned that “national security threats and detecting changes in the environment based on quantitative data would be utilized working together in collaboration with Singapore’s RAHS (Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning) and England’s Open Data Institute (ODI).



In the afternoon session of the conference, panel discussions and presentations were delivered by ODI officials such as ODI Director Richard Sterling and Spend Network (ODI Startup), Ian Macgill who talked about the importance of opening up government and public data so that applications could be developed that will help in the future society.


Source : ICT e-Newsletter Vol.14 No.5