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Open Data

Innovative response

The Korean government has released the following government data via APIs in response to the COVID-19 outbreak: (a) Current oversea saftety security status and immigration data relating to the COVID-19 by country and region/city. (b) Comprehensive statistics data for confirmed cases or patients of COVID-19 infection in South Korea by region, sex and age group. (c) Disinfection of public places by local government in the country (in progress).

Specific issues addressed and anticipated impact

Making available datasets that provide a comprehensive status of COVID-19 progress and disinfection of public space.

Organisations/institutions involved

The National Information Society Agency (NIA) as a main institution in charge of OGD and which is under the Ministry of Interior and Safety and the Ministry of Science and ICT support to coordinate public and private actors to make datasets in response to the COVID-19 outbreak available on the central OGD portal. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) which coordinates between related ministries, such as Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and local government, a

Korea

Relevant URL(s):

https://www.data.go.kr/data/15043145/openapi.do

https://www.data.go.kr/tcs/dss/selectApiDataDetailView.do?publicDataPk=15043376

Level(s) of government:

National/Federal government
Regional/State government
Local government

Issues being addressed:

Information and practice sharing (with public and/or internal)
Governance responses
Real-time data collection, sharing, and analysis

Response tags:

open source

Date Submitted:

2 June 2020

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