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Speech
Changing the Development Paradigm
of Information Communication
The 170th round of the 'Ubiquitous Social Leader Forum' was
held at the Grand Ballroom of the Millennium Seoul Hilton at
7a.m. December 12, with over 50 participants including the forum's
members and leaders from various sectors. With Choi
Seong, Professor at Namseoul University as the host, the president
and CEO of Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) Suh
Jong- ryeol (simonsuh@kisa.or.kr) was invited as a special guest
to discuss the 'Development and Paradigm of Information
Communication' and conduct a question and answer session at
the forum. The following is the summary of his presentation.
Web 2.0 is on the front line
in the development paradigm
The first generation analog mobile phone based on voice communication
- after the second generation digital and third generation
of WCDMA - it is being developed into a 4G which offers a
virtual environment for users. The development and evolution of
communication network has brought changes to our overall
lifestyle. Today's digital convergence is a result from the integration
of cable and wireless communication of networks and broadcast,
and all the online and offline domains creating new forms of
products and services while advancing technology, service, and
industries based on IT convergence, which are most well embodied
by smartphones and IPTV. On the front line of such change in
this paradigm is Web 2.0 - a platform through which to create a
wide variety of new services by utilizing data gathered from people
at large. Web 2.0 is therefore differentiated in that it allows
and encourages people to share, participate, and have the ability
to open up, unlike in the past where a handful companies exclusively
controlled information as a tool for their leverage.
Web 2.0 is currently expanding its domain to mobile 3.0 and
IPTV 2.0 from the technological perspective, in addition to
spreading to other sectors such as government and management.
The paradigm innovator, Apple Inc.
Few people would argue that Apple Inc., along with its leader
Steve Jobs, is at the epicenter of the current transition of this social
paradigm. After releasing iPod, the sensational MP3 player,
in 2001, the company has been leading the convergence trend of
device and contents, launching iTunes, media player applications
in 2003, iPhone in 2007, and the App Store in 2008.
Suh Jongryeol, president and CEO of Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA)
Presently, nearly 300,000 applications are registered at the App
Store and the accumulated number of downloads exceeds a staggering
seven billion. Apple has become a colossal influence on the
overall electronic appliance and contents industries that range
from electronic appliances to contents providers, by supporting
the innovative 'open platform' App Store. Their success has led
telecommunication companies that used to enjoy exclusive control
of the value chain to now change their structure into an open
market. In addition, since the release of the iPhone, the smartphone
market has shown an average annual growth rate of 20
percent - and its market share is expected to increase to 46.5 percent
by 2013. Another ambitious project by Apple is the iPad, a
device which has optimized various multimedia contents including
music and games and is rapidly emerging as its own new platform.
Many experts predict that the majority of existing newspapers
and magazines will soon go online and that this device will
not only add a new dimension to contents distribution, but it will
also change the education and business industries.
Google, sky is the limit
With an enormous amount of data, Google, often noted as the
world's top search engine, is expanding its business beyond advertisements.
Recently the company's expansion of its business mod-
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