Speaker
KO Yoon-seok
Affliation
National Information Society Agency
Title
Vice President
Session
Bridging the Digital Education Divide in Asia through an AI Educational Platform: A Path Toward Inclusive Growth

Biography

I am a vice president at National Information society Agency (NIA), and I have been working for NIA from 2003. I majored in Computer Science for undergraduate at the University of Georgia in the U.S. and got M.S. in Information Systems at Yonsei University in Korea. My specialty is e-government, ICT convergence, and data. I have planned and managed nation-wide e-government projects such as Government Business Management System Project and Government Information Data Center Project. I have also worked at PCGID (Presidential Committee on Government Innovation & Decentralization) to oversee presidential agenda, especially e-government projects. I also worked as a director of Convergence Planning Team at NIA from 2013 to 2019. I developed a nation-wide ICT convergence plan, known as “The Vitamin Project” that was one of the key projects in the previous administration. I was also in charge of “The Digital Government Innovation Project.” which planned to innovate not only the government itself, but also the society. Most of sub projects are based on AI technology by using big data. Recently, I worked as a vice president and in charge of Department of data. As a part of “Korean New Deal” the Korean government launched “Digital New Deal” in 2020, and “AI Training Data Project” was #1 project for the Digital New Deal. I led the completion of 691 different kinds of AI training datasets by using total amount of USD 1 billion in three years. I am currently serving as a member of the Presidential Digital Platform Government Committee Task Force and as a Senior Advisor at the World Bank.