• Information Systems Review
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.77-95
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• 2014

From the success of TDX and CDMA to today's social media boom, Korea's ICT has achieved an amazing growth for the last couple of decades. However, in spite of ICT's role as an engine of growth in Korea, there have been concerns that ICT growth would negatively affect national employment due to the labor substitution effect. While some scholars insist that ICT would positively affect employment because it will enlarge the size of industry itself, many people blame ICT as a main culprit of rising unemployment rates. In this study, we try to empirically find the true effect of ICT growth on employment in Korea. We use the data of ICT productions, ICT investments, and various industries employments from 1995 to 2011. The methodologies we adopted for this study is Granger causality tests and impulse response functions based on vector autoregression (VAR) model. We find that ICT has negative impact on service industries, while it has positive impact on manufacturing industries. Meanwhile, ICT has no statistically significant impact on ICT industry itself. Since the impacts of ICT on employment are mixed, we can argue that ICT should not be blamed for the main cause of low employment. We suggest a direction of future policies to utilize ICT for vitalizing employments in Korea.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.54-60
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• 2014

국내 농업은 농가인구의 감소와 고령화로 인해 노동력 부족현상이 발생하고 있으며, 사료 원부자재비 에너지 비용 등의 생산비 증가와 FTA 등 농업 시장 개방 가속화로 인하여 많은 어려움에 직면해 있다. 또한 소비자의 고품질 농수산물에 대한 수요 증가와 농수산물의 안전성에 관한 관심으로 인하여 농수산물의 품질향상 및 생산성 제고가 필요한 시점이다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해서 농업 ICT 융합기술의 연구와 개발을 통해 농업의 생산정밀화 유통지능화 소비안전화에 기여하고, 이를 통해 농업 분야의 경쟁력을 제고하는 것이 필요하다. 본고에서는 농업 ICT 융합기술의 개념과 국내외 농업 ICT 융합 관련 정책 및 연구동향을 살펴보고, 농업 ICT 융합기술 개발 사례와 국내 농업 ICT 융합기술의 문제점을 분석하여 국내 농업 ICT 융합기술의 발전 방안을 모색하고자 한다. 농업 ICT 융합기술의 발전 방안을 모색하고자 한다.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.7 no.10
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• pp.865-878
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• 2017

To realize the healthy life of human, mental, physical, and environmental factors must be managed continuously and stably. In order to manage human health, the 21st century healthcare field is essential ongoing interactions and convergence with ICT technologies. Such demands have created a convergence of technologies (fusion technology) in combination with the heterogeneous technologies. And, with the convergence of medical technology and ICT technologies, the development of personalized therapy environments is created. Advances in ICT-converged healthcare services are progressing due to the development of diverse wearable devices. Such ICT fusion system is exponentially increasing the complexity of the ICT convergence healthcare system and is resulting in various technical, institutional, environmental, and cultural issues. This study explores the status of developments in ICT healthcare technologies from the past to date, identifies major technology and policy issues to address these challenges. Finally it will recommend healthcare policies and a future road-map.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.237-245
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• 2020

The development of information and communication technology (ICT) provides many opportunities for businesses to increase productivity, to have better relationships with customers and suppliers, and to develop new products more efficiently and effectively. However, recently, there have been claims that ICT development in a country would increase income inequality of the country. In this debate, we examine the impact of ICT development on the income inequality at the country level. Data of 28 OECD countries were used for our study. According to results of the analysis, a country with a higher level of ICT development is likely to have a lower the level of income inequality. There have been many concerns that development of ICTs may result in a higher level of income inequality mainly because wealthy companies or individuals can more affordable to utilize advanced ICT and ICTs have replaced labor. However, there has been no such identified impact, at least in recent OECD countries. Rather, we can expect ICT development to play a role in lowering income inequality of a country.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.465-466
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• 2016

소규모 태양광 발전시스템은 개인 사용자가 손쉽게 설치 및 운용할 수 있는 250~500[W]규모의 미니 태양광 발전시스템이다. 미니 태양광 발전시스템에서 기존의 Boost Converter 사용으로 인한 효율저하에 대한 단점을 극복하기 위해 Multiplied Boost Conveter를 채택하였고, PSIM 시뮬레이션을 통하여 유용성을 확인하였다. 또한, ICT 의 융합을 통해 각 가정에 설치되는 미니 태양광 발전시스템과 인버터 상태 및 고장 이력 등을 파악하여 유지 보수를 위한 웹기반 원격 모니터링 시스템을 구성하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.151-152
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• 2015

The progress of information technology provides new opportunities for the construction and development of modern. ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has become a pillar industry of China's economic development, and provide services and develop strategies to solve problems of Chinese agricultural. This paper analyzed the present situation about the ICT application on the agriculture market in China by analyzing the literature research, and analyzed the problems in the process of ICT application, in the end proposed some suggestions for the development of ICT.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.60-67
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• 2015

ICT(Information and Communication Technology)의 발전속에서 늘 그 중심에 서 있던 이슈는 플랫폼이다. ICT 업계에서 제공하는 서비스를 이용하는 일반 사용자들은 플랫폼의 존재를 알지 못하면서 자연스럽게 서비스를 이용하지만 그 이면에는 사용자들에게 자신의 플랫폼을 제공하기 위한 노력이 숨어 있는 것이다. 즉, 플랫폼 지배를 통해 ICT 업계의 선두를 유지해 오거나 선두로 나서고자 하는 노력과 시도는 늘 있어 왔으며 플랫폼 기술은 단일 목적 단일 서비스 지원을 위한 하드웨어, 소프트웨어 플랫폼에서 출발하여 개인화 서비스 플랫폼, 클라우드 기반 서비스 플랫폼을 거쳐 융합 서비스 플랫폼까지 발전 해 왔다. 서비스 사용자들에게 공통 요소를 제공해 준다는 플랫폼의 본질은 변화되지 않고 있지만 관련 기술의 발전과 더불어 플랫폼을 바라보는 관점에 따라 플랫폼의 구조와 기능 발전을 거듭해 왔다고 볼 수 있다. 본고에서는 이러한 ICT 업계의 기술 발전 흐름 속에서 가장 큰 의미를 담고 있는 플랫폼에 대해 다양한 관점에서의 플랫폼의 의미와 변화를 살펴보고자 한다. 그리고 나서, 플랫폼 기술 발전의 흐름 속에서 사용자들에게 Tele-experience 서비스를 쉽게 사용할 수 있도록 지원해주고 서비스를 제공해 주는 Tele-experience 실감서비스 플랫폼 개발 방향과 이슈에 대해 살펴봄으로써, 향후 플랫폼의 역할에 대해 조명해 보고자 한다

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.21-28
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• 2012

ICT와 다른 기술의 융합이 가속화되면서 주력 산업을 비롯하여 제조업과 서비스 산업에서 IT를 활용한 가시적 성과가 창출되고 있는 추세이다. ICT 융합은 기술발전, 국가 정책 수요증대, 일반 국민의 니즈 확산을 기반으로 안전, 건강, 교육, 복지, 환경 등 인간생활과 밀착된 분야로 외연이 확대되고 있다. 이에 본고에서는 생활밀착형 ICT 융합 서비스의 국내외 추진 동향을 살펴보고 공간 환경별 다양한 서비스 유형과 종류를 도출하며 향후 서비스 활성화를 위한 R&D 방향을 제언하고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.4
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• pp.387-399
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• 2014

This study proposes strategies for economic development through mobile in Africa where mobile emerges as an infra to solve socioeconomic problems. It analyzes economy and ICT industry in Africa and studies several cases that are utilized in agriculture, finance, education, and healthcare. It also examines economic development theory and the impact of broadband on economic growth and development. It is necessary to leapfrog to mobile to achieve an information society and a compact industrialization based on ICT because fixed-line is very poor and expensive in Africa. Building a mobile broadband infra, supporting a dissemination of low-end smartphones and a government's support for mobile contents are necessary to achieve a leapfrogging development through mobile in Africa. The findings of this study provide additional insights for Korean ICT companies to consider a business in Africa.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.35-53
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• 2016

This paper attempts to present critical issues of the information society and an alternative research addressing the challenges of ensuring that ICT is applied in ways that are enabling and responsive to social contexts in which people live their lives. Drawing the question of why insights arising from the mainstream vision are rarely useful in policies, the study highlights some developmental paradigms linked to ICT. It explores how ICT is seen as a means to development, and elaborates on the limitations of how current issues are related to the quality of life. The results indicate that ICT reduces quality of life while economic growth entails the opposite. The research framework here involves some meaningful components of cultural residues: independence, risk-taking, government responsibility by mapping how the level of ICT is distributed in the topology of values around the world. Moving to the next phase, ICT policy design and implementation need to be set up practically in a broad perspective that can be pursued by those concerned with social and technological innovation.