NIRS held a 'Big Data Men of Merit Award Ceremony' and a 'Briefing Session to introduce index for Big Data Joint Assessment' on December 5th, 2018.

The ministerial honors were awarded to 9 people who have made contribution to Big Data development.

President Ms. Kim stated at the event that she would make her best efforts to sincerely support Big Data practices of government agencies through Hye-ahn, the Big Data Analysis Common Platform for the government officials while mentioning about the capability of Big Data exercises in government administration which are to provide advanced and relevant public services.