Hun Paik, Deputy Prime Minister, and Lee Kwanghyung, KAIST President, to Co-Chair Committee for Strategy Formulation
Blueprint to Secure Technological Sovereignty in AI, Quantum, Space, Next-Generation Energy, and Other Future Fields
The authorities has launched the event of a long-term nationwide science and know-how technique geared toward making South Korea one of the world’s high three science and know-how powerhouses (G3) by 2045, marking the centennial of Korea’s liberation. Amid intensifying world competitors over next-generation applied sciences comparable to synthetic intelligence (AI), quantum know-how, and area, the federal government is working to safe future technological sovereignty by establishing a nationwide blueprint.
On June 4, the Ministry of Science and ICT introduced the official launch of the “2045 Science and Technology Frontier Strategy Committee” and said that it has commenced work on the “South Korea 2045 Science and Technology Frontier Strategy.”
Reference photograph to assist understanding of the article. Baek Honghoon, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT.
This technique is a national-level future plan that outlines the mid- to long-term imaginative and prescient and motion plans for the science and know-how sector, in reference to the federal government’s ongoing “South Korea 2045 National Development Strategy.”
The Ministry of Science and ICT believes that, as AI and quantum applied sciences are reshaping not solely business and the economic system but additionally safety and the worldwide order, a nation’s capability to take the lead in future applied sciences and design new technological frameworks will decide its competitiveness. The plan isn’t restricted to forecasting promising applied sciences; as an alternative, it goals to first outline the longer term imaginative and prescient that South Korea ought to pursue by 2045, and then determine the core applied sciences and nationwide innovation duties required to appreciate that imaginative and prescient.
Roadmap for Future Technologies: AI, Quantum, Space, and More
The technique committee, established to formulate this plan, is co-chaired by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Science and ICT Hun Paik and Lee Kwanghyung, President of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).
The committee consists of a basic committee and eight subcommittees. The subcommittees are organized into the next areas: Future Planning, Superintelligence & Hyperconnectivity, Life & Medical, Climate/Environment/Energy, Future Mobility, Space & Deep Sea, Future Materials & Manufacturing, and Innovation Policy.
(*100*), the committee will contain not solely specialists in science and know-how but additionally science fiction writers, tv producers, and younger researchers, who will focus on the social, cultural, and moral points which will come up from technological developments.
Based on the discussions in every subcommittee, the Ministry of Science and ICT plans to launch an interim draft of the technique inside this yr for public suggestions, and to announce the ultimate technique in April 2027. The yr 2027 will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the institution of the nation’s science and know-how administration.
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Deputy Prime Minister Paik said, “By 2045, South Korea must no longer be a follower chasing advanced nations, but should instead become a science and technology powerhouse that firmly secures technological sovereignty and contributes to the progress of humanity. We will develop a national strategy to prepare for the next 20 years of Korean science and technology.”
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