Change in GIS condition and policy direction in the future

4.1. Change in GIS condition and its prospect

The condition of GIS is rapidly changing with the technological development. The GIS condition is expected to change in the future as follows.

First, a wide range of government ministries in Korea are pursuing powerfully national information project to be developed as advanced information nation in the 21st century.

Korean government is laying out the blue print to grow as knowledge and information powerhouse through 'e-KOREA VISION 2006' Ministry of information and communication establishes information infrastructure through IT83 strategy and Ministry of Administration government administration and home affairsis seeking for information advancement in

administration. GeographicInformation System (GIS), the core technology to realize e-government along with the newly introduced service and new growth engine promotion, is expected to develop as the main pillar in the national information.

Second, as the importance of geographical information is increasing everyday, the various socioeconomic activities in information will require more advanced use of GIS and its service. Its original simple function such as data establishment and management will be improved more state-of-the-art GIS which supports job process and decision-making.

Currently, the application of GIS is expanding from the public sector including both central and local government to the various classes like general citizens and enterprises. Also more advanced applications will be available by connecting and converging each individual GIS to enhance the synergy effect.

Third, to improve the value of GIS applications, the establishment of demand-side GIS will be accelerated. Korea is driving forward e-government to improve the efficiency of public administration as well as service provided to the public. To that end, more evolving development of GIS is required in the public sector. In addition, geographical information service to satisfy various service needs such as the safety, health, welfare of the citizens and in particular, the application of location-based service will rapidly increasing.

Forth, to prevent mass production and redundancy of geographical information producedin both public and private institutions, the importance of reinforcing and guiding national geographical information infrastructure will be increasingly highlighted. In order to produce and manage the geographical information in every sector such as economy, society, and culture etc., with the widespread applications of geographical information and to efficiently utilize the geographical information established in different settings, the role of the nation like interoperability security will be more and more significant.

Fifth, the development of GIS which responds to the ubiquitous computing environmentwill be required, enabling the computing process anytime, anywhere by integrating the real and virtual space. As the technologies in information and communication, GIS, GPS and Sensor converges each other, the environment will be developed into the space where information exchanges between person and person, person and object, object and object are available. In addition, GIS, as the core element of ubiquitous technology, should be more state-of-the-art as opposed to the present.

4.2. policy direction of future GIS in Korea: the third phase of national GIS basic framework

The vision on the third phase national GIS (2006-2010) is "to create the infrastructure to realize ubiquitous land."During the first level of national GIS basic framework, the government focused on building the information infrastructure of national space, during the second phase, it aimed to set up the digital land by securing national space information.

The third level of national GIS basic framework plans to build the necessary national information needed in one step higher ubiquitous computing environment. The land of ubiquitous is, by converging information technology centered on GIS, to integrate real and virtual space, on which public administration, civic service and new business activities will be created.

The strategies of the third phase national GIS is largely to expand and add substance of national GIS infrastructure, to maximize the application value, to build up user-oriented national space information, and to establish cooperation with national information business.

The national GIS infrastructure is the foundation necessary to build national GIS, such as basic geographical information, standard, education, promotion, institution etc. The foundation here should be maintained, managed and improved continuously according to the changing condition. In particular, global standard needs to be set, so that national standard is able to be registered as global standard befitting the changing global landscape and the level of technology. To further develop the national GIS infrastructure, the structure system should maintain itself to efficiently promote the national GIS, enhance the interoperability and the quality of geographical information and enforce the system maintenance and policy development.

The purpose of maximizing the value of national GIS application lies in raising the application value of the already established national space information to the highest level.

The integration and convergence of various kinds of data or system creates the application value of national geographical informationand raise the synergy effect of application. More advanced system will be pursued to assist from the initial simple tasks to policy and decision-making. In addition, it is planned to proactively utilizeGIS in setting up the various space plans such as national plan, metropolitan plan, basic urban plan, in an effort to facilitate the existing achievement of GIS.

So far, he national GIS has been operated centering on suppliers. In the future, the national GIS is needed to shift from the current supplier- to demand-oriented. To enhance

the application value of geographical information, demand-sided GIS led by the public and the citizens and private enterprises etc. would be established and actively provided.

So far, the national GIS did not positively consider the close links with other sectors at the level of securing the national space information infrastructure. However, the national GIS application should promote the cooperative development with the related GIS technology and the relevant information policies. AS we've mentioned above shortly, in terms of more advanced national information, it tries to develop in connection with national information policies suchas IT839, Ministry of information and communication is seeking for, e-government establishment project and comprehensive administrative information of local government, Ministry of Administration government administration and home affairs is implementing. To achieve that goal, more close partnership through the divided role among ministries needs to be built.

There is the future primary project which will be pursued with top priories for the next five years starting the year of 2006, according to the third phase national GIS planning basis.

First, establishment, expansion and materialization of geographical information. Building the geographical information framework which was started in earnest since 2000 is planning to be finished by 2010, pursuing efforts for renovation project of basic geographical information will be continued and at the same time, the quality standard will be arranged.

Second, By expanding the establishment of GIS application system to maximize GIS application, the synergy effect of utilization, connecting the already established system, will be enhanced. In addition, for more smooth distribution and utilization of GIS data, one-stop integrated portal plans to be established.

Third, the development of GIS core technology befitting ubiquitous computing environment will be pursued. It is planned to develop the next-generation core GIS technology such as national information processing technology, national information maintenance technology, land information distribution technology etc. and through those technologies, the GIS application plans to be more sophisticated and to generate added value further.

Forth, to enhance the interoperability of national space information, national standard of GIS infrastructure will be secured by 2010 and the promotion activities will be empowered to institutionalize the national GIS standard and to raise the application.

Lastly, the promotion of more advanced national GIS policies. The assistant efforts to nurture GIS industry, GIS expertise will be enforced, and also promotion efforts of national

GIS importance and usefulness of application will be carried out. In addition, The materialization of national GIS business will be promoted throughthe evaluation of national GIS building project and feedback system.