INDIA AND SOUTH KOREA SIGN TWO AGREEMENTS FOR PROMOTING BILATERAL
IT COOPERATION
SHRI PRAMOD MAHAJAN &
DR. YANG SEUNG TAIK DISCUSS BILATERAL INITIATIVES FOR FURTHERING
IT & TELECOM COOPERATION
India and South Korea
today signed two Agreements for further strategising cooperation
in the IT sector between the two countries. Both countries signed
a Memorandum of Understanding on establishing "The Joint Korea-India
E-Governance Task Force" between the National Computerisation
Agency of the Republic of Korea and the National Informatics Centre
under the Department of Information Technology in the Ministry
of Communications and IT. The focus of the Task Force is to collaborate
on identifying best practices in the use of IT in Government.
The Task Force will also identify possible applications that would
facilitate the e-governance agenda in the respective countries.
It is expected that this joint e-governance task force would accelerate
government, academic, commercial and industry exchanges in the
area of e-governance applications. The MoU was signed by Dr. Suh
Sarn-Young, President of NCA, Republic of Korea and Dr. Vijay
Aditya, DG, NIC on behalf of the Department of Information Technology.
The second Agreement was signed
between Mr. Vivek Singhal, Chairman, ESC and Mr. Dan H Lee, President
of the Korean Industry Promotion Agency. It is expected that this
agreement would facilitate collaboration between Indian and Korean
companies in the area of e-governance, embedded software, banking
and insurance, web technology, training of professionals of computer
related higher education. Both organisations have also agreed
to participate and partner each other in expositions held in both
countries.
Prior to the signing of the Agreements,
Shri Mahajan and his Korean counterpart Dr. Yang Seung Taik held
extensive discussions on issues related to IT and Telecom. Both
Ministers discussed matters related to expanding access to information
infrastructure, facilitating use of ICT in education and training,
exchange of experts in areas of mutual interest in IT. The two
Ministers also discussed cooperation in the sectors related to
consumer electronics, industrial electronics and electronic components.
Discussions were also held in areas related to IT security and
the possibility of joint ventures in electronics hardware industry.
Shri Mahajan and Dr. Taik also discussed extensively the possibility
of streamlining inputs for long-term collaboration in the areas
related to E-governance. The two Ministers also had delegation
level talks between the two sides. Representatives included senior
officials from the Department of IT and Communications.
