How Has Information Communications Technology(ICT) Changed Citizens? Emergence of Smart Citizens in the Information Mobility Society

Instructor

Song, Kyungjae

Ph. D. in Political Science, Kyung Hee University. Former advisory board member in Eduin, Ministry of Education/ Korea Communications Standards Commission/ Ministry of Culture, Media Policy Forum, K-MOOC management/ Former Research Fellow in Local Press Commission / Advisory Board Member of Promotion Policy in National Election Commission / Research Professor at Kyung Hee Institute for Human Society

1. ICT and mobility society
– The advancement of ICT and transportation created a new type of society that is different from the paradigm in the industrial society in the past.
– A society in which information, people, goods and services can move in real time

2. Digital transformation
– Acceleration of digitalisation across the society moving beyond the digitization which is turning the analogue into digital format

3. Need to consider how to live in an information mobility society characterised by rapidly changing mobility
– A phenomenon where people’s cognitive ability is decreased due to rapid social changes
– Need to wisely consider morals and legal norms to live in the information mobility society with strong mobility