¿µ»ó ÀÚ¸· ¢¹ PROLOGUE Individual sounds are just noise, but put them together in the right way, these sounds make wonderful music If someone can unite the significant, but scattered e-government capabilities of Korea, Can it not be much more capable? And so much more harmonious? Providing secure, efficient, credible and innovative services to the people¡¦ NCIA has begun the era of No. 1 e-Government ¢¹ BODY Since the integration, how much has the security been improved? When individually managed, the investment & expertise for the security area was always underprovided. However, when integrated, all the government agencies benefit from the equally best security services. Buildings which can withstand stronger than level 7 of earthquakes with resistant design, Intelligent systems for power supply, cooling and fire fighting, ¡®e-ANSI¡¯, the intelligent information security system, And a group of world¡¯s class security experts guarantees seamless system operation to prevent any type of cyber attacks from illegally intruding the system. How much does efficiency increase with integrated management? Each government agency can reduce its IT budget more than 30% compared to the individual system management. Moreover, there will be groundbreaking reductions in physical space and energy consumption. Running more than 20,000 numbers of information systems automatically, nTOPS contributes to cut down the system restoration costs by reducing monthly outage to 5 seconds or less. This is how NCIA justifies its investment costs and creates profits within comparatively short period of time. Wasn¡¯t it difficult to integrate all the information systems of many government agencies (into one place)? Yes, indeed. At first, we needed to face distrust and resistance. Established in 2005, NCIA has built Korea-Net and NCIA Gwangju. Integrating IT resources and establishing G-cloud, NCIA now becomes the heart of Korean e-Government, managing and operating the hardware, software and network for all government services. The best system and services have won the greatesttrust from its client agencies and the people. Does win-win growth mean a lot to the success of NCIA? Yes. We have been together with many IT companies. We have supported both large & small companies to develop their capabilities and worked together to share our experiences with many countries overseas. As a result, the government and enterprises can enjoy the synergy effect of win-win growth. Now, we support many countries developing their e-government with our know-hows and experiences. What is the future of Korean e-Government like? Beyond the current success, NCIA is preparing innovative services to fully support world¡¯s best smart e-Government. Through mobile solutions and cloud computing, the government will provide IT services as quickly and conveniently as the way they deliver electricity and water to the people. Your office will be wherever and whenever you are. People will enjoy government services at their fingertips. The dream of e-Government comes true with NCIA. ¢¹ EPILOGUE Put one idea into the others, Link one technology to another, We make magnificent harmony of e-Government services. The most reliable, the most convenient, and the most intelligent government, NCIA will lead the future of the world¡¯s smart governments. National Computing & Information Agency NCIA