NIA Vice-President Kang visited Mexico City last July to participate in the OECD Conference on Building an Effective and Transparent Public Sector in Latin America. The two-day conference was held on July 11-12, and was attended by government ministers, senior and middle management public servants from Mexico, and other Latin American countries as well as officials from OECD member countries. Academics, public opinion leaders, think-tanks, and business representatives were also represented.



The Conference opened with welcoming remarks from the President of Mexico. President, Calder?nwho offered the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and Latin American countries his full cooperation to promote the agenda for good government. He also mentioned that Federal Government has implemented

a regulatory reform to eliminate unnecessary paperwork and requirements. 10,000 administrative guidelines have been replaced by 9 general manuals, which represent the most important reduction of regulations in Mexico || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || s recent history yielding savings of approximately $5 billion dollars for taxpayers over the past two years.



NIA Vice-President Kang attended the session entitled Leveraging E-Government: New Solutions to Old Challenges as part of a panel of international experts, which included Barbara-Chiara Ubaldi, E-Government Policy Analyst (OECD), Jos? Clastornik, Executive Director of AGESIC, Presidency (Uruguay), Carlos Viniegra, Head of the Digital Government Unit, Ministry of Public Administration (Mexico), David McClure, Associate Administrator Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, General Services Administration (United States), and Andr?s Hofmann, Director

of Pol?tica Digital Magazine (Mexico) who sat as moderator.


Mr. Kang briefly introduced Korea || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || s e-Government, and discussed various ways to utilize e-Government as a tool for improving public sector efficiency and delivering better services to the people. In response to a question on the significance of e-Government in a region like Mexico with low Internet penetration, Vice-President Kang stated that the benefit of e-Government especially at the early stage lies in improving the way the public sector works, which will ultimately lead to better services.