Analysis of Digital Governance Transition in South Korea: Focusing on the Leadership of the President for Government Innovation

This research intends to draw implications for digital governance establishment by analyzing how the president’s leadership has worked in the digital government innovation promoted in South Korea over the past 30 years. This research examines the process of digital government development in South Korea from the 1990s onwards, chronologically and in the order of presidential administrations. The analysis proceeds from the following three perspectives: the political characteristics of digital government, the presidents’ leadership on government innovation through digital government process, and the composition of a strong cross and joint governmental promotion system. The implementation of digital government is not simply about a computerized government. Driving digital government means the overall transformation of government. From this point of view, to successfully implement digital governance, we must approach it from a highly political perspective. The implementation of digital government in South Korea has been continuously pursued as a national agenda. Since South Korea has a well-established high-speed information and communication infrastructure, e-Government and digital government innovation have been promoted as national agendas regardless of regime change. However, in this process, the president’s leadership determined the success or failure of digital government innovation. Therefore, the most important success factor for digital government innovation is securing policy sustainability regardless of administration change.

State management of social media in Vietnam

The development of Internet in Vietnam since late 2000s represents an unprecedented opportunity for economic growth; it also poses a major challenge to political stability insofar as its development has coincided with the emergence of civil society and the rise of the social media. Vietnamese social media has been studied by many scholars from different point of views. Yet, the organisational side of Internet gouvernance and its inherent vulnerability remain obscure in the literature. Our paper will scrutinize the state management dilemma of social media. We will overview the two-pronged strategy which alternates development with control vis--vis social media; then we will examine how several management and control measures are combined and how the boundaries may blur between the political and online public spheres, making the states digital governance vulnerable and uncertain. Our analysis is based on the states regulations and information published online by official and social media, and foreign news services.

The European Parliament’s role in EU digital governance: Aspiration and reality

Despite its enhanced legislative powers, the European Parliament still struggles to be recognised as an authoritative and reliable political actor. Its current role in EU digital governance serves as a good example to illustrate both the aspirations of the parliamentarians as well as their actual impact. Confronted with a horizontal policy issue that affects all sectors of the analogue and digital world parliamentary working methods have proven to be unfit for purpose. The European Parliament has so far been unable to assume leadership to guide the EU through the digital transformation process. Yet, its aspirations are not pulled out of thin air. Intellectual freedom, swift decision-making channels, and an open and pragmatic debating culture make it, in fact, predestined to define an overarching and balanced digital agenda for the EU. Before this is achievable, however, it is necessary to execute comprehensive internal reforms to overcome a list of structural, financial, political and external deficits.

DIGITAL GOVERNANCE EMERGENCE AND IMPORTANCE

The research is a conceptual paper that explains its effect on society and the realistic models of digital governance. In this paper, we discuss fundamental questions such as how the term “digital governance” can be defined in the present age; what is the role of modern information technology in achieving the objectives of digital governance; whether digital governance is a revolutionary tool for transforming government governance around the world; and what are the Digital Governance theoretical models that can help Governments ensure the provision of citizens’ services and facilities. In addition, the research compared various digital governance models, including a broadcasting model, a Critical Flow Model, a Comparative Analysis Model, an E-Advocacy model, and an Interactive Service Model.

Legislative discourse of digital governance: a corpus-driven comparative study of laws in the European Union and China

Based on the self-compiled corpora of the European Union and Chinese laws on data governance, this study adopts a corpus-driven approach to comparatively study the legislative design of the EU and China on digital governance, especially on key issues such as data protection, data processing and utilization, and cross-border data transfer. It is found through corpus analysis that the EU has developed a relatively comprehensive data protection system, which internally focuses on the protection of individual data rights and externally sets high standards on the cross-border transfer of data. Despite the data protection paradigm as it manifests, the EU is facing new challenges on data exportation, data jurisdiction in the competitive digital marketplace. Shared the same concern on the data protection legislation, Chinese data law has made significant progress in personal data protection with the nascent enactment of Data Security Law and Personal Data Protection Law. Notably, Chinese legislation features the hierarchal taxonomy of data under the principle of the national security exception, while it requires more legislative skills, flexible response mechanisms, and more subordinate laws to prevent future data security threats. Moreover, the corpus-driven method conducted in this study provides evidential insights for the comparative legal textual studies across jurisdictions.

DIGITALISASI TATA KELOLA KORBAN KEKERASAN TERHADAP PEREMPUAN BERBASIS STAKEHOLDERS DI PROVINSI JAWA TIMUR

The phenomenon of violence against women is a pandemic. There are many studies on violence but studies focusing on governance are rare. Governance involves various stakeholders with different roles so that they often face problems of coordination, integration, and synchronization. This problem also occurs in East Java. As a leading sector in handling victims of violence against women and children, the Office of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection and Population (DP3AK) of East Java Province faces challenges in the form of effective models in handling victims of violence. Meanwhile, cases of violence against women and children are very high. DP3AK requires a digital governance model in handling victims of violence more effectively on a stakeholder basis. This study offers a solution in the form of a digital platform that is able to connect victims with stakeholders.Keywords: digitalization, governance, violence against women and children, stakeholdersAbstrakFenomena kekerasan terhadap perempuan bersifat pandemik. Kajian terhadap kekerasan sangat banyak namun studi berfokus pada tata kelola jarang dilakukan. Tata kelola melibatkan berbagai stakeholders dengan peran berbeda sehingga sering menghadapi masalah koordinasi, integrasi dan sinkronisasi. Problematika tersebut juga terjadi di Jawa Timur. Sebagai leading sector penanganan korban kekerasan terhadap perempuan dan anak, Dinas Pemberdayaan Perempuan dan Perlindungan Anak dan Kependudukan (DP3AK) Provinsi Jawa Timur menghadapi tantangan berupa model efektif dalam penanganan korban kekerasan. Sementara itu, kasus kekerasan terhadap perempuan dan anak sangat tinggi. DP3AK membutuhkan model tata kelola digital dalam penanganan korban kekerasan yang lebih efektif dengan berbasis stakeholder. Kajian ini menawarkan solusi berupa platform digital yang mampu menghubungkan korban dengan para stakeholder.Kata kunci: digitalisasi, tata kelola, kekerasan perempuan dan anak, stakeholders

A Crucial Decade for European Digital Sovereignty

The current decade will be critical for Europe’s aspiration to attain and maintain digital sovereignty so as to effectively protect and promote its humanistic values in the evolving digital ecosystem. Digital sovereignty in the current geopolitical context remains a fluid concept as it must rely on a balanced strategic interdependence with the USA, China, and other global actors. The developing strategy for achieving this relies on the coordinated use of three basic instruments, investment, regulation, and completion of the digital internal market. Investment, in addition to the multiannual financial framework (2021–2027) instruments, will draw upon the 20% of the 750 billion recovery fund. Regulation, in addition to the Digital Governance Act and the Digital Market Act, will include the Data Act, the new AI regulation, and more that is in the pipeline, leveraging the so-called Brussels effect. Of key importance for the success of this effort remains the timing and “dovetailing” of the particular actions taken.

Europe offers a third way in the technological transformation

The digital world is branching in two directions: techno-authoritarianism – as Chinese technology firms increase their presence in Europe; and a network of private US corporations deploying a business model that is also based on total surveillance. This slow-motion splintering of the internet has accelerated during the pandemic. From its position of vulnerability, the EU is emerging as a third way in the technological transformation, as it pledges to develop systemic rules for global digital governance. Brussels believes that this process of digital self-determination is essential to protect its model and the ethical principles of technological development.