A workshop of the AI·data working-level council, which discusses public data use and artificial intelligence (AI) policy cooperation, was held in Jeju. A total of 15 institutions, including nine member agencies of the council and related organizations in the Jeju region, took part. The event combined training, policy discussions, and an ESG practice program.
The AI·data working-level council said on the 30th that it held the "joint workshop of the AI·data working-level council on public data provision and data-based administration" from the 22nd to the 24th for three days at the Global Center of the National Information Society Agency (NIA) in Seogwipo, Jeju.
Participating member agencies of the council included the Korea Federation of Credit Guarantee Foudations (KOREG), The Disabled Enterprise Business Center (DEBC), the Korea Technology and Information Promotion Agency for SMEs (TIPA), the Korea SMEs & Startups Institute (KOSI), the Korea Institute of Startup and Entrepreneurship Development (KISED), the Korea Venture Investment Corporation, the Korea SMEs & Startups Distribution & Marketing Agency, the Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-sure), and the Korea Marine Environment Management Corporation (KOEM). Attendance totaled 202 people (80 excluding duplicates).
The training program, joined by experts from NIA, ran in four courses: basic training on public data, the status of AX global public-private cooperation, artificial intelligence and future changes, and data policy directions in the AI era.
During the event, town halls with the public and policy roundtables were also held. A policy roundtable among public institutions in the Jeju region (Government Employees Pension Service, Jeju Tourism Organization, Jeju Research Institute, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Development Corporation, Korea Foundation), the nine council agencies, and NIA also took place, where data-sharing and cooperation plans were discussed.
ESG practice programs such as data plogging and beachcombing were also conducted. Participants used data collected along the Jeju coastline to derive ESG policy directions.
The organizers said the workshop served as an opportunity to strengthen a cooperation system for data utilization through joint planning and operation among institutions and to explore a foundation for expanding the startup and data ecosystem.