What: Policy orienting document
Impact score: 3
For who: Policy makers, companies, industry organisations and citizens
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Key takeaways for Flanders:
South Korea's economic recovery plan could provide inspiration for Flanders, which also has strong digital ambitions. Like Flanders, South Korea wants to build a data-driven economy. Central to that plan is the national ‘Data Dam’ project. The data dam is a central platform for collecting and processing a large amount of data. The data dam should support a data-driven economy including collecting, standardising, processing and combining data, and ultimately secures a competitive advantage for the country by creating new industries and accelerating the digital transition of key industries.
Deregulation of access to personal data
In January 2020, the South Korean government passed amendments to the three main data privacy laws: the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA); the Act on the Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilisation and Information Protection (‘Network Act’); and the Act on the Use and Protection of Credit Information (‘Credit Information Act’). The amendments included allowing personal data to be used without the data subject's consent in certain cases.
Applying MyData vision
MyData is a concept of an international NGO. MyData pursues more or less the same goal as Tim Berners-Lee's Solid project: to give citizens back access to their personal data, and in the process help them
