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[Seoul News] "Making a Shared Platform of Korean-style Cities"
I'm sure many of you have heard of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But not many people know what the Fourth Industrial Revolution is. If you only need to know one thing, the key to the Fourth Industrial Revolution is convergence. Collaboration. Easily explained, it's a feast of diversity that's not buried in either one, and it's a network that goes into the network and tries to connect with each other.
Thus, the fourth industrial revolution is more important than the traditional closed hierarchical system for horizontal, open sharing and collaboration based networks. In the new era of the Industrial Revolution, open communication platforms emerge as an important environment for innovation, with the urgency that individual companies and individual professionals cannot keep up with change. In Germany, various players, including the state, research institutes, universities, and corporations, work together and share technology and communicate through a shared platform. It's meaningful that they tried regardless of whether they were successful or not. And in Silicon Valley, a platform-based startup ecosystem has been created that shares the production elements needed for the entire course of business, making it easy to start and innovate. Examples of startups based on shared platforms are WORK (office space sharing), Task Rabbit and Wishcat (caeyongjunggae), and GUIHUB (cooperation and software sharing). These shared platforms enable the sharing of information, resources, instruments, and space needed for specific purposes, both online and offline, and enable transactions between suppliers and consumers.
Why is this convergence and platform discussion in the Fourth Industrial Revolution necessary to discuss cities? Because cities during the Fourth Industrial Revolution have to function as a platform in itself. Due to the activation of the Internet of Things and the development of ICT technologies, we have to break away from the traditional urban structure. Former Apple CEO Peter Hershberg said, "A network-connected city isn't just a grid of communications and sensors, it's a city government that 'creates co-creations with citizens'.
[Photo Source: ICT Trends]
The Korean-style urban shared platform is why it is necessary to discuss how to proceed. Before the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Korea's urban shared platform must change. You can set up a "Korean style urban shared platform" in which the roles of the government and the private sector are allocated according to the situation in Korea. The government should provide common elements of the platform as a common material, such as infrastructure, and create incentives for platform participation and cooperation, but minimize interference. First of all, it must evolve to a city platform that enables the creation of a converged business model through sharing and open innovation. There have been suggestions on how to reduce software costs by more than 10% and invest the remaining 90% in disruptive innovation. The role of government should be the platform administrator who acts as the coordinator after the primary role in infrastructure deployment. We need to pursue a form of partnership that allows each implementer to form a cooperative network, and if we do so, we're going to turn the Korean-style shared infrastructure into one of the government-led projects.
<Source: Industrial News>
I have briefly mentioned the elements that are needed to form a shared urban platform in Korea, but there is a lack. While Korea maintains its status as an IT powerhouse worldwide, it is hard to find examples of the urban Internet of things and shared platforms. The key to the future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is your hands and ideas.
I'm sure many of you have heard of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. But not many people know what the Fourth Industrial Revolution is. If you only need to know one thing, the key to the Fourth Industrial Revolution is convergence. Collaboration. Easily explained, it's a feast of diversity that's not buried in either one, and it's a network that goes into the network and tries to connect with each other.
Thus, the fourth industrial revolution is more important than the traditional closed hierarchical system for horizontal, open sharing and collaboration based networks. In the new era of the Industrial Revolution, open communication platforms emerge as an important environment for innovation, with the urgency that individual companies and individual professionals cannot keep up with change. In Germany, various players, including the state, research institutes, universities, and corporations, work together and share technology and communicate through a shared platform. It's meaningful that they tried regardless of whether they were successful or not. And in Silicon Valley, a platform-based startup ecosystem has been created that shares the production elements needed for the entire course of business, making it easy to start and innovate. Examples of startups based on shared platforms are WORK (office space sharing), Task Rabbit and Wishcat (caeyongjunggae), and GUIHUB (cooperation and software sharing). These shared platforms enable the sharing of information, resources, instruments, and space needed for specific purposes, both online and offline, and enable transactions between suppliers and consumers.
Why is this convergence and platform discussion in the Fourth Industrial Revolution necessary to discuss cities? Because cities during the Fourth Industrial Revolution have to function as a platform in itself. Due to the activation of the Internet of Things and the development of ICT technologies, we have to break away from the traditional urban structure. Former Apple CEO Peter Hershberg said, "A network-connected city isn't just a grid of communications and sensors, it's a city government that 'creates co-creations with citizens'.
[Photo Source: ICT Trends]
The Korean-style urban shared platform is why it is necessary to discuss how to proceed. Before the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Korea's urban shared platform must change. You can set up a "Korean style urban shared platform" in which the roles of the government and the private sector are allocated according to the situation in Korea. The government should provide common elements of the platform as a common material, such as infrastructure, and create incentives for platform participation and cooperation, but minimize interference. First of all, it must evolve to a city platform that enables the creation of a converged business model through sharing and open innovation. There have been suggestions on how to reduce software costs by more than 10% and invest the remaining 90% in disruptive innovation. The role of government should be the platform administrator who acts as the coordinator after the primary role in infrastructure deployment. We need to pursue a form of partnership that allows each implementer to form a cooperative network, and if we do so, we're going to turn the Korean-style shared infrastructure into one of the government-led projects.
<Source: Industrial News>
I have briefly mentioned the elements that are needed to form a shared urban platform in Korea, but there is a lack. While Korea maintains its status as an IT powerhouse worldwide, it is hard to find examples of the urban Internet of things and shared platforms. The key to the future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is your hands and ideas.