A Study to Improve the Public Data Management of the City of Busan

The government of the Republic of Korea has recently released a new administrative paradigm called “Government 3.0” to encourage the use of public data. Although this has caused a consistent increase in public data’s usage, users and managers still experience difficulties in the system because of management issues such as disordered naming, unstandardized classification, and the unprofessionalism and insufficient knowledge of on-site operators. To respond to these problems, this study focused on identifying the critical issues and points for improvement of public data management with case studies and focus group interviews with on-site persons in charge of public data belonging to Busan’s city government.