ABSTRACT
The government's interest in informatization has a longer history: It launched a national project to establish computer network infrastructures in five key sectors—banking, police, defense, education and research, and public administration—in 1984. This chapter describes the development of e-government policy in Korea from the era of building the national several basic information infrastructures and identifies important characteristics of the informatization policy processes. E-government programs are normally established to be comprehensive in the sense that virtually all government organizations are supposed to undertake or be involved in informatization projects. Many of the e-government projects chosen by the Special Commission on E-government Korea are ones whose necessity has been widely recognized; however, their actual adoption has been hampered by the lack of policy coordination between competing ministries. The heavy involvement of the macropolitical system ironically contributes to the fragmentation among the central government ministries in the realm of informatization.
