Recently the ministry got transfer of e-government affairs, finalized business agreement with the National Computerization Agency (NCA) and received informationization promotion fund from the Ministry of Planning and Budget (MPB).

On April 13, the ministry also held an explanatory session on 2004 e-government support business for central administrative agencies and local autonomous bodies at the government complex in central Seoul.

Through collaboration with the NCA, the ministry issued orders for urgent 15 projects first, such as 'Expansion of People's Online Participation' and 'Establishment of Real Estate Information Management Center,' and plans to order 10 more projects in May additionally.

In this regard, Director General Chung Kook-Hwan of e-Government Bureau, MOGAHA, said that he has received this year's e-government business promotion plan from his frontline department, and will confirm the budgets for each task after consultations with the NCA and e-Government Specialized Council. He added the ministry would invest a total of 90 billion won for the 31 e-government tasks this year.

Apart from the 31 tasks, the ministry plans to receive additional tasks from respective ministries and invest about 12 billion won for new public informationization projects, while also supporting two billion won for regional informationization projects.

For new tasks, in particular, the ministry plans to carry out feasibility studies directly under the management of its e-Government Bureau and make it obligatory business managing agencies' self-evaluation, while appraising with its emphasis on target adaptability, duplication or not, expected effect, etc.

Director General Chung also revealed that in the first half of this year, the ministry intends to concentrate on the 90 billion won-scale 31 e-government tasks and plans to implement a concentrated management for the 14 billion won-scale new tasks starting in the second half.