Dr. Kwon Ho-yeol was inaugurated as the 13th president of KISDI at the main auditorium of KISDI at 4:30 pm on May 7, and thus began his three-year term in office.

In his inauguration address, President Kwon emphasized the main goals of his administration as follows: to develop future strategies for mid-to-long term ICT policies; to identify policy demands and disseminate the corresponding research output; to strengthen the research organization responsible for developing policies on AI convergence and intelligent information; and to strengthen the global ICT policy cooperation network.

President Kwon declared that after the COVID-19 crisis, securing industrial competitiveness and creating an inclusive welfare society that could overcome the digital divide would become urgent national issues. He added that research on inclusive ICT policies that care for socially disadvantaged people is just like laying a steady bridge across the dark valley of the digital divide. By conducting research on policies that include everyone, KISDI will sail towards the vision of ‘South Korea as a country whose people live together happily through Intelligent’.

In addition, President Kwon announced that he will strengthen communication in order to enable KISDI to play its role as a partner in policy making that the government can trust and rely on, and its role as a policy proposer whom the public and other stakeholders can trust.

To fulfill these objectives, President Kwon announced that he will set up a research system that can respond quickly in an environment of technology-industry convergence, create a horizontal cooperative relationship between experts in industry, academia, research institutes and private companies, and actively pursue investigation that monitor the state of these relationships.

KISDI’s role as an ICT policy research institution that can predict the future and lead the country in the Intelligent information era has grown in importance as our society undergoes a digital transformation. President Kwon implored all KISDI employees to meet this challenge by working together to build KISDI into a global ICT policy research institution that will lead the world in industrial economic innovation and humanistic and social inclusion.