The National Information Society Agency (NIA) and the Korea Foundation for the Promotion of Private Schools said on March 30 they recently signed a memorandum of understanding to maximise the use of artificial intelligence in the public sector.

The aim is to expand AI use in the public sector and build a sustainable cooperation framework by linking the foundation’s expertise accumulated across university financial support and management of private school institutions with NIA’s AI policy and technology capabilities.

The agreement includes cooperation to introduce, use and spread AI, joint 대응 cooperation to secure global AI leadership, cooperation to realise a safety- and responsibility-based 'basic AI society', and cooperation on collecting information on AI technology and market trends at home and abroad, along with related personnel exchanges.

The two organisations will use the agreement to pursue, in stages, various cooperation tasks that apply AI across education administration. They will also strengthen practical AI utilisation capabilities and focus on producing results that can be applied in the field.

Hwang Jong-sung (황종성), head of NIA, called the cooperation an important turning point for applying and spreading AI in education administration. He said NIA would work closely with the foundation to identify and spread public AI utilisation models that can be felt in the field.