IT Governance Issues in Korean Government Integrated Data Center

Abstract

Korean government established the GIDC (Government Integrated Data Center) as a comprehensive solution by integrating information systems spread across each government department. It has played a crucial role to expedite the growth of Korean e-Government. It has a variety of IT governance issues because it is essentially involved with conflicts among the stakeholders. However, there are few studies on the IT governance issues within the GIDC. This paper explores some of the existing IT governance issues through literature review and derives the most important IT governance issues by collecting data from an expert panel. Then, this paper provides some practical implications. The results of this study are expected to be able to contribute to the establishment of effective IT governance in the public sector.