▲ Ministry of Public Administration and Security

[Global Economic Times] On October 17, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety will hold the ‘Public Data Portal Upgrade 1st Project Commencement Briefing’ and begin the public data portal reorganization project to support the artificial intelligence (AI) era.

‘Public Data Portal’ is a platform that integrates and provides data opened by each organization so that citizens and companies can conveniently use public data.

The service was launched with the enforcement of the Public Data Act in 2013, and a total of 90,000 pieces of public data have been opened on the portal to date.

Public data portals have played an important role in creating new value in the private and public sectors, with over 3,000 services closely related to people's lives, such as weather, transportation, and tourism, being created based on data opened through the portal.

However, as the public data portal service has been in operation for 10 years, it has become increasingly difficult to find the necessary information among the large amount of data, and the workload of those in charge of disclosing the data has also increased.

Accordingly, this upgrade project is being promoted so that the portal can provide services that meet the public's expectations in the AI ​​era and increase the stability of the system and the efficiency of the open system.

First, we introduce AI-based data search methods and recommendation services to the portal so that users can receive exactly the data they want.

Previously, users had to enter the correct keyword to get the desired search results, but the revamped portal understands search intent through conversations with users and provides them.

In addition, it finds not only search results but also related data based on past search history, usage patterns, and relationships between data.

Second, the sharing system between data organizations and the openness system to the public are unified so that each organization's data can be efficiently opened to the portal.

Previously, the person in charge registered and managed inter-agency data sharing and private disclosure in different systems, but in the future, data that can be opened among the data shared by institutions will be automatically linked and opened on the portal.

Accordingly, it is expected that institutions will be able to focus on producing quality data by reducing the administrative burden caused by the dualized system, and that public data will be disclosed accurately and quickly without errors.

Lastly, the aging infrastructure will be reorganized so that data can be reliably disclosed and information resources can be utilized efficiently even in a rapidly changing environment.

In particular, we will improve the environment so that public and private clouds can be utilized in the right place according to seasonal characteristics when data demand is concentrated, so that the portal can respond quickly and flexibly to changes in data demand.

The Ministry of Public Administration and Security plans to begin a complete reorganization of the public data portal in October 2024 and introduce a newly reorganized portal in the first half of 2026.

Lee Yong-seok, head of the Digital Government Innovation Office, said, “We will strive to ensure that the advancement project proceeds without a hitch,” and added, “In the future, we will provide more types of public data, such as expanding AI learning data on the portal, so that many people can use it.”

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