2022 Conference on the Future Forecast for Korea, ‘Listening Petition: Voice of Citizens Reading through Data’ will be hosted by KISDI on December 9.

2022 Conference on the Future Forecast for Korea, ‘Listening Petition: Voice of Citizens Reading through Data’
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Suggestions on national agenda and national strategy in 2022 based on predictions about the future
The keynote lecture, Digital Democracy of Taiwan’, will be given by Digital Minister of Taiwan Audrey Tang.
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< 2022 Conference on the Future Forecast for Korea >
ㅇ Date: December 9 (Thursday) 09:30～17:50
ㅇ Venue: Broadcast online (http://futureforecast.net)
ㅇ Host: National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences
ㅇ Organizer: KISDI
ㅇ Subject: ‘Listening Petition: Voice of Citizens Reading through Data
 Participating organizations: 14 research institutes* affiliated with the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences and various external agencies. **

* Science & Technology Policy Institute, Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, Korea Institute for International Economic Policy, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, Korea Energy Economics Institute, KISDI, Korea Development Institute, Korean Educational Development Institute, Korea Transport Institute, Korea Labor Institute, Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Korea Women’s Development Institute, Korea Institute of Public Finance, National Youth Policy Institute.

** Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, International Studies Association, National Assembly Futures Institute, Korean Association for Information Society, Korea Internet & Security Agency.

※ Session topics

- (Session 1) 2020 Conference on the Future Forecast for Korea, ‘Good Insight: Finding South Korea’s path toward the future from Big Data’ (2020.05.28 [Thursday])

- (Session 2) 2021 Conference on the Future Forecast for Korea, ‘Data Meets the Future: What seven indicators are telling us about South Korea’ (’20.12.17(Thursday))

Hosted by the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences (NRC, Chairperson Jung Hae-gu), KISDI is the organizer of the 2022 Conference on the Future Forecast for Korea, which will be broadcast online on December 9 (Thursday).

The topic of this year’s future forecast conference will be ‘Listening Petition: Voice of Citizens Reading through Data’. Hosted by the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences, the conference will be attended by experts from fourteen research institutes and external agencies who will make future predictions encompassing the humanities, economics, and society. Through their predictions, this conference will examine the current situation in South Korea and propose a future strategy for the country’s administration and national agenda in 2022.

In view of the fact that digital technology could become an instrument for encouraging the participation of the general public in setting policy and strengthening the transparency of policy establishment, the conference will include a listening petition session (data based) in which experts will listen to the opinions of member of the public, with the aim of making the conference an effective channel for policy mediation.

The listening petition session will cover 3 topics and consist of the following: Opinions of the general public as shown by Big Data (Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission’s Civil Petition Information Analysis Division); Data-based analysis of key national agenda (KISDI); The NRC’s data information system and research planning (National Research Council).

The 2022 Conference on the Future Forecast for Korea will kick off with an opening speech by Chairperson Jung Hae-gu of the National Research Council and a congratulatory speech by Chairperson Yoon Sung-roh of the Presidential Committee on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and a welcoming speech by President Kwon Ho-yeol of KISDI. The conference will then proceed with the opening ceremony, keynote lectures, a special session on the listening petition, global outlook, and domestic outlook, and, lastly, the final discussion.

The keynote speech will be given by Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang on ‘The Digital Democracy of Taiwan’. Chairperson Jeon Ui-chan of the Climate Change Subcommittee of the 2050 Carbon Neutrality and Green Growth Commission will also give a keynote lecture, this time on ‘The Outlook for Carbon Neutrality in the Era of Climate Crisis’. Vice-president Chung Seong-joon of the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy will also give a lecture on ‘The Global Economic Outlook in 2022’.

Minister Audrey Tang, in particular, is regarded as a pioneer of digital innovation who successfully fought the Corona virus with data. Tang will talk about the significance of digital democracy and examples from Taiwan. Chairperson Jeon Ui-chan will explain his views on how we should handle the climate crisis to ensure sustainable development that is also environmentally-friendly development.

In the global outlook session, the invited experts will make predictions about how the security environment could change in the years to come, as people experience changes in the working environment forced upon them by the imposition of non-physical contact between people, and as the platform-based economy continues to spread.

In the domestic outlook session, the invited specialists will make predictions about domestic industries in 2022, starting with fifteen emerging issues requiring urgent attention in 2022. They also plan to present their views on the educational paradigm in the era of hyper-personalization, the crisis of disappearing regional universities, the lives of young Koreans, and the adoption of sickness benefits.

Chairperson Jung Hae-gu of the National Research Council said, “Difficulties are piling up in every area of our society because of the COVID-19 pandemic. I hope the Conference on the Future Forecast for Korea could help us to navigate towards a more hopeful future,” adding, “We are interested in using the ideas expounded at this conference as valuable back-up data for research societies and research institutions when they study policies.”

President Kwon Ho-yeol of KISDI declared, “This is an important conference because we will hear from experts on the directions that the country should take in the near future through comprehensive predictions covering all areas of the economy, humanities, and society, with additional input from the mouths of our citizens”.

To comply with the campaign to get people to social distance themselves as much as possible, the Conference will be broadcast online via its official website (http://futureforecast.net) and the website of the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences (http://www.nrc.re.kr). The presentation files from sessions 1 and 2 can be viewed at both websites.