The National Information Society Agency (NIA) and the Ministry of Science and ICT will hold a briefing on Feb. 11 for a 2026 project call for "AI-based digital twin leadership" in safety management, NIA said on Sunday.

The project, which opened for applications on Feb. 3, aims to minimise disaster damage, a state task of the Lee Jae-myung government. It uses AI and digital twin technology to enable early responses to safety accidents and strengthen public safety.

As a new project being launched this year, it will develop and test AI and digital twin services that can predict and prevent risks in disease, daily life and industrial safety. It will solicit proposals freely for 6 tasks in total, 2 each by field, and provide support of up to 6 billion won in state funding.

The briefing will be held at 2 p.m. on Feb. 11 at the LW Convention Grand Ballroom. NIA will provide guidance on call instructions for demand institutions and explain the project's goals and main details, the application schedule and future implementation plans.

Implementing agencies may be proposed by AI and digital twin companies, local governments, public institutions and industrial firms. Proposals must include, in the consortium, an institution that will serve as the test site for the service to be built. The project period runs from the agreement date until Dec. 31 this year. Depending on the final performance evaluation, tasks deemed to require service expansion and upgrading may receive support under next year's project.

NIA President Hwang Jong-sung (황종성) said, "We will apply core technologies such as AI and digital twins to the safety field to produce demonstrable results, and continue to identify innovative services that raise the safety of people's daily lives by another step."