Asia pacific journal of information systems

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Digital Government Application: A Case Study of the Korean Civil Documents using Blockchain-based Resource Management Model

  • Hanbi Jeong (Business Administration, Seoul National University) ;
  • Jihae Suh (Business Administration, Seoul National University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Jinsoo Park (Business Administration, Seoul National University) ;
  • Hanul Jung (Business Administration, Seoul National University)
  • Received : 2021.10.21
  • Accepted : 2022.09.13
  • Published : 2022.12.31
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Abstract

The Digital Government landscape is changing to reflect how governments try to discover innovative digital solutions, and how they transform themselves in the process. In addition, with the advent of information and communication technology (ICT), e-governance became an essential part of the government. Among the services provided by the Korean government, the Minwon24 online portal is the most used one. However, it has some processing limitations, namely: (1) it provides a cumbersome document authenticity service; (2) people cannot know what happened even if the agency handles the documents arbitrarily. To address the issues outlined above, blockchain processing can be a good alternative. It has a tremendous potential in that it has maximum transparency and a low risk of being hacked. Resource management is one of the areas where blockchain is frequently used. The present study suggests a new model based on blockchain for Minwon24; the proposed model is a type of resource management. There are three participants: issuer, owner and receiver. The proposed model has two stages: issuing and exchanging. Issuing is creating civil documents on the database, which is BigchainDB in this study. Exchanging, the next stage, is a transaction between the owner and the receiver. Based on this model, the actual program is built with the programming language Python. To evaluate the model, the study uses various criteria and it shows the excellence of the model in comparison to others in prior research.

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Acknowledgement

This study was supported by the Research Program funded by the SeoulTech(Seoul National University of Science and Technology).

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