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Kim, Soonhee
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Public management,
e-Government,
Leadership development,
Human resources management
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January 31, 2023
Biography
Soonhee Kim is a professor of public administration at the Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management. Professor Kim’s areas of expertise include public management, human resources management, e-government, and leadership development. She is co-editor of Public Administration in the Context of Global Governance (Edward Elgar, 2014), Public Sector Human Resource Management (Sage, 2012), and the Future of Public Administration Around the World: The Minnowbrook Perspective (Georgetown University Press, 2010). She serves as an editor of international features in the Public Administration Review and as co-chair of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences Study Group on Trust and Public Attitudes. Kim received a Ph.D. in public administration from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York in 1998.
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Bringing Government into the 21st Century: The Korean Digital Governance Experience
(Washington, DC: World Bank, 2016-06-21)This volume—a collaborative work between the World Bank’s Global Governance Practice and a team of researchers working with the Korean Development Institute—is dedicated to the proposition that there is much that can be learned from a careful and nuanced assessment of Korea’s experience with e-governance. It seeks to draw lessons both from the large reservoir of experience as to what has worked, as well as the more limited and isolated examples of what has not. In particular, it seeks to achieve two objectives. The first is to accurately understand, capture and distill the key dimensions of Korea’s e-governance experience so that it can be properly understood and appreciated. Towards this end, some of the world’s leading experts on Korea’s e-governance experience have been engaged in its preparation, and their conclusions have been carefully vetted and reviewed by other leading scholars of the role of IT systems within government. The goal is to avoid flip generalizations or characterizations, such as “political will is important” or “it is important to embed e-governance within a broader strategy to develop a domestic IT industry,” but to truly understand the complex interplay between differing political, economic and bureaucratic interests and how they shaped decisions about developing the technological and human infrastructure that would support Korea’s successful thrust to be the world’s leading nation in this area. The second is to ponder the lessons learned and what did and did not work from Korea’s experience for other developing countries seeking to strengthen the role of information technology within their public sectors.