As a lot of information is being produced and processed based on Internet, Internet usage and its frequency increased. The amount of information that is being created and accumulated is so gigantic that various businesses and specialized skills using ...
As a lot of information is being produced and processed based on Internet, Internet usage and its frequency increased. The amount of information that is being created and accumulated is so gigantic that various businesses and specialized skills using Big Data emerged.
Currently, regardless of one’s intent, location, pathway, credit card payment, credit card bill, call time, searched words, and languages become one’s information.
Specialized companies that collect and process the information developed and generate profit through processing and providing the information.
Private companies utilize the information in their manufacture, sales, distribution, and follow-up management as well as in designing a new product and forecasting the demand.
State-owned enterprises that promote public interest and governments strive to use the big data that is collected through various routes to reflect the data in establishing and amending the policies. Therefore, the study on highlighting positive sides and diminishing or preventing negative sides using the Big Data and on extracting effective results by predicting the possible problems through reducing the cost and the period is required.
The study explores the cases where the Big Data was utilized in establishing government policies and induced positive outcome, the cases of foreign countries, and the ways to expand the scope of application of big data on government policies in Korea.
This study also examines the need to train professional workforce to continue longterm researches and to utilize the data that is accurately analized, the need to promote government policies exploiting Big Data to the citizen, and the need to ease the regulations and legal restrictions on collecting the data.
Keywords: big data, government policy, policy formulation, big data application case,