Serbia-Korea Information Access Center emerges on top in only a year

The Serbia-Korea Information Access Center in Belgrade has managed to climb to the top of the list featuring 52 similar centers in the world in only a year, Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Branko Ruzic said yesterday.

At the celebration of the first anniversary of the center, he said that “the IT center is the result of the great cooperation of Serbia and Korea”.

The Serbia-Korea Information Access Center opened on December 20, 2017, as the result of the memorandum signed between the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government of Serbia and the National Information Society of South Korea and with the help of a donation of EUR 250,000 from that country. Citizens and startups have free access to the center’s resources.

– The multinfunctional, high-tech environment of the Serbian-Korean IT center is meant for computer and IT training of public administration officials and citizens – Ruzic said.

He added that 13,000 trainees had gone through the center and that 500 training courses had been organized, where public officials had learned how to handle important projects such as the address registry, the digitalization of cultural heritage, the reduction of administrative paperwork and others.

The WikiLive conference was held on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Serbian language Wikipedia.

He announced that the next project would be the Smart Cities project, in which the Korean government would invest EUR 200,000. The aim is for the city administration to upgrade its operations with modern technologies.

The South Korean ambassador to Serbia pointed out that the center was the result of the two countries’ cooperation.

The head of the group for the support to the development of electronic government at the Ministry of Public Administration, Dara Gravara-Stojanovic, said that there were talks with representatives of South Korea about the opening of another information center in Nis.

Ministarstvo državne uprave i lokalne samouprave Republike Srbije

Ambasada Demokratske narodne Republike Koreje u Beograd

Serbian Korean Information Access Center in Belgrade

Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self Government of Serbia

Branko Ruzic

National Information Society of South Korea

Embassy of South Korea in Serbia

WikiLive conference

Dara Gravara Stojanovic

information center in Nis