1. 2002. 5. 7 Kilnam Chon KAIST chon@cosmos.kaist.ac.krv1
IT Leader Development
Kilnam Chon KAIST

2. Table of Contents 1. Objective 2. Background 3. Program 4. Process
5. Remark
Reference
Appendix

3. 1. Objective - Develop Internationally Competitive IT Industry
- Develop Centers of Excellence in strategically
Important Areas
- Develop “10,000" Globally Competitive IT Leaders
- Internationalize IT Development

4. 2. Background 2.1 Competitiveness in IT, in particular in
Software and Content
    - Need to develop top-ranking centers of excellence
in strategically important areas in IT and related areas.
    - Developing internationally competitive IT specialists
are equally important.     - Internationalize IT industry like many developed
countries.     - Collaborate with the world leading organizations.
  - Actively participate global forums (IETF, W3C,...)

5. 2.2 North East Asia/CJK
Japan:           - World second largest economy with many leading industries             (animation, game, robotics, miniaturization, materials,...)           - Many multinational's centers of excellence             (IBM, Sony,...)
China:          - World first/second largest economy in this century           - Large potential markets           - Dominate overseas investment including development centers             (ATT, Microsoft, IBM, NEC,......)           - Large pools of quality human resource
Korea:          - What niche to concentrate?               Broadband application/technology/infrastructure, Online game,...           - What roles to play globally?

6. 2.3 Catch up to world leaders in 10 years
- Internationalize IT industry
- Develop a globally competitive program
- Utilize overseas resources
- Develop critical mass in strategically important areas
- Develop global figures/stars
- Seek the global best

7. 3. Program
"$10 Billion Dollar" Program( ) to develop   centers of excellency
  - 10,000 IT leaders

8. 3.1 Process
- Develop internationally competitive program and projects.
- Each project will have at least one overseas and domestic organization.
- Target to build one of the three best centers in each area.
- Except 10% or more participation from overseas, preferably
from the world leading organizations.
- The centers would last 10 years.
  - Each center is expected to have 100 million dollars budget per year.
- Each center would have affiliated organizations in Korea
and in the world to collaborate. 
- Need additional education programs (graduate school, university, high schools)

9. 3.2 Candidate Areas (partial list)
Linux   IPv6   Security   Contents (Game, Animation,..)   Mobile/Wireless Applications   Broadband Applications   Imbedded Systems   BT/IT   SI (Logistics, Public Services,..)
Image/Video   uGovernment (eGov, mGov, sGov,..)

10. 4. Informatization Index (IMD)
- Korea ranks low(20th)    - Leaders         North America, North Europe, Singapore,..    - Need a strategy to move up to top 5(or 10)    - How to overcome handicaps
(non-western civilization, digital divide,..)

11. 5. Remark - May affiliate with universities
- Limited lifetime for the centers(10 years)
    - May affiliate with universities
   - Reference sites        Xerox PARC        IETF        W3C        Silicon Valley (CISCO, Microsoft, Apple,..)        Top Ranking Universities
(MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, Berkeley, CMU,....)
   - Korean strength        MPEG        CDMA        First Generation Broadband Infrastructure and Applications

12. Reference
Dream Machine IMD, World Economic Report MIC, eKorea FKI, "eKorea" Japan, eJapan
EU, eEurope

13. Appendix:
A.1 Competitors     China     Japan     Taiwan     Singapore     Scandinavia     UK     Germany     Ireland     Canada

14. A.2 Candidate Overseas Organizations for Collaboration
IBM     Nokia     Intel     Microsoft     Cisco     ATT     Nortel     Accenture     EDS     Singapore (logistics, eGovernment)  
Isreal (security, image/vision)     India (software industry)     Sun

15. A.3 Candidate Advisory Council
Andrew Bjerring (CANARIE/Canada)     Intel (Chairman or Vice President)     IBM (?)     Steve Deering (CISCO)     eIreland or eEurope     Suzuki (JISA?)     Omae (?)     Singapore     (in addition to 2~4 Koreans)