5.1.8 E-government Definition and the expected effects The Korean government has been promoting e-government since the early 2000s. According to the e government project report, e-government falls into three main sectors: work efficiency, civil service, and organizational democracy. In this report, the impacts of ICT on administrative affairs are demonstrated in two parts: e-government service and e-civil service, respectively. E-civil service is explained in clause 5.1.9. E-government, defined as G2G (government-to-government) is the service which aims to process government tasks between public organizations, administrative offices, and local governments so as to accomplish a paperless workplace and improve productivity and efficiency. It also induces informatization of whole processes from producing official documents to archiving them. By expanding e-document usage to almost all public offices and encouraging employees to send and receive e-documents, it is predicted that time and money will be saved and work efficiency will be improved. Regarding work efficiency, egovernment has been expected to eliminate unnecessary work processes, simplify complicated processes, and integrate duplicated work. In this report, government tasks in G2G are considered by reducing visits, fuel and electricity consumption and by having a paperless environment. Table 20 − Expected effects by e-government Types of effects Positive effects Negative effects GHG emission Emission generated by manufacturing and First order effects N/A (+) Increase using e-government equipment As travel distances of people who visit administrative agencies to acquire documents decreases, the relevant GHG emission is reduced Since the number of Second order effects N/A (-) Decrease people who visit agencies decreases, electricity consumption in buildings is reduced By sharing information through digital documents, paper use is reduced Paper reduction can lead to divestment in Any efficiency may be Other effects manufacturing industry exploited to increase (-) Decrease and reduce related GHG work-load. emission * Positive effects describe energy and GHG emissions reduction, and negative effects refer to increase in energy consumption and GHG emissions. Scope and scenarios As mentioned, only document exchanges between government and administrative offices are considered in this report. In order to estimate the amount of reduced energy consumption by e-government, the number of information exchanges related to provision among government departments was set at 66.8 million,
5.1.8 E-government Definition and the expected effects The Korean government has been promoting e-government since the early 2000s. According to the e government project report, e-government falls into three main sectors: work efficiency, civil service, and organizational democracy. In this report, the impacts of ICT on administrative affairs are demonstrated in two parts: e-government service and e-civil service, respectively. E-civil service is explained in clause 5.1.9. E-government, defined as G2G (government-to-government) is the service which aims to process government tasks between public organizations, administrative offices, and local governments so as to accomplish a paperless workplace and improve productivity and efficiency. It also induces informatization of whole processes from producing official documents to archiving them. By expanding e-document usage to almost all public offices and encouraging employees to send and receive e-documents, it is predicted that time and money will be saved and work efficiency will be improved. Regarding work efficiency, egovernment has been expected to eliminate unnecessary work processes, simplify complicated processes, and integrate duplicated work. In this report, government tasks in G2G are considered by reducing visits, fuel and electricity consumption and by having a paperless environment. Table 20 − Expected effects by e-government Types of effects Positive effects Negative effects GHG emission First order effects N/A Emission generated by manufacturing and using e-government equipment (+) Increase Second order effects As travel distances of people who visit administrative agencies to acquire documents decreases, the relevant GHG emission is reduced Since the number of people who visit agencies decreases, electricity consumption in buildings is reduced By sharing information through digital documents, paper use is reduced N/A (-) Decrease Other effects Paper reduction can lead to divestment in manufacturing industry and reduce related GHG emission Any efficiency may be exploited to increase work-load. (-) Decrease * Positive effects describe energy and GHG emissions reduction, and negative effects refer to increase in energy consumption and GHG emissions. Scope and scenarios As mentioned, only document exchanges between government and administrative offices are considered in this report. In order to estimate the amount of reduced energy consumption by e-government, the number of information exchanges related to provision among government departments was set at 66.8 million,
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