Lee Sang-min Attending Digital Government Leading Countries Meeting: "Sharing Experience and Policies"

Held in Copenhagen... AI Growth Theme
Meeting with OECD Secretary-General in Paris on the 6th

Lee Sang-min, Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, who attended the 'Digital Nations' ministerial meeting held in Copenhagen, Denmark, delivered a speech on the theme of 'Artificial Intelligence for Growth and Competitiveness.'

On the 5th (local time), Minister Lee, attending the 'Digital Nations' meeting, a consultative body of 10 leading digital government countries including Korea and the United Kingdom, introduced at the meeting ▲ the strategy to promote a digital platform government based on AI and data ▲ the government-wide super-large AI construction project ▲ plans to nurture digital experts in both the public and private sectors.

Minister of the Interior and Safety Lee Sang-min is speaking on the theme of "Artificial Intelligence for Growth and Competitiveness" at the 'Digital Nations' ministerial meeting held on the 5th (local time) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety

The Digital Nations ministerial meeting is a consultative body of leading digital government countries established in 2014. This year's 11th meeting was held under the theme 'Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a Growth Engine.'

Accordingly, Minister Lee delivered a speech on the theme of 'Artificial Intelligence for Growth and Competitiveness' and held bilateral talks with Caroline Stage Olsen, Minister of Digitalization of Denmark and chairperson of Digital Nations, and Perial Clark, UK Minister for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Government, respectively, to strengthen bilateral cooperation with digital leading countries.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety shared public sector AI policies, a common area of interest, through bilateral talks and proposed the active use of the 'Digital Governance Research Group' as a practical cooperation measure for continuous policy exchange between countries. Minister Lee said, "Korea is a world-recognized leading digital government country, and we will actively share our digital government's development experience and policies at the request of the international community."

Meanwhile, after completing his schedule in Copenhagen, Minister Lee will move to Paris, France, and on the 6th, meet Matthias Cormann, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Secretariat, to discuss the Korean government's cooperation plans for the development of developing countries in the field of digital government.