The Ministry of Science and ICT (Minister Lee Jong-ho) gathered on the Korea Web Business Association, major platform firms, Korea Web Business Association, Online Shopping Association, Korea Startup Forum, Korea Consumer Federation, etc. It was announced on the nineteenth that a gathering was held by the Data and AI Subcommittee of the Platform Private Autonomous Organization (Chief Lee Seong-yeop, Professor at Korea University).

Naver, Kakao, Coupang, Gmarket, Woowa Brothers, Carrot Market, Google, Meta, and Yanolja participated as major platform firms.

The Data AI Subcommittee was launched in September 2022, and representative operators and organizations by sector equivalent to portal, open market, O2O equivalent to delivery and travel, app market, academic experts, and consumer groups are participating. Self-regulatory principles to reinforce service transparency have been established.

On the meeting, discussions were held on specific plans equivalent to the scope, method, and standards of the implementation inspection in preparation for the implementation inspection of the search and suggestion transparency enhancement principle.

As well as, discussions were made on the collection of the subsequent topic in order that self-regulation measures based on communication and agreement amongst stakeholders in the information field, equivalent to ways to enhance data accessibility by platform users, might be derived. The participants of the meeting decided to proceed to make efforts to derive successive self-regulatory achievements and spread them throughout the industry.

Kim Kyung-man, director general of communications policy on the Ministry of Science and ICT, said, “We are going to support the outcomes of self-regulation of the platform for harmony between innovation and process in step with the national policy.” He said, “We are going to promptly promote the amendment of the Telecommunications Business Act to secure the effectiveness of self-regulation.”

Reporter Lim Dae-jun ydj@aitimes.com