2009, Vol.16, No.2

Informatization Policy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 4.08

pISSN : 1598-3498
https://journal.kci.go.kr/nia

The purpose of this study is to provide future directions of studies on information privacy by analyzing past and recent trends of the studies. For this, we have reviewed extensive previous studies on information privacy in local and foreign information systems, marketing and other fields. The extensive review of existing studies on information privacy has revealed several distinctive trends in information privacy-related studies. First, the concept of information privacy has changed from the protection of personal rights to the right to self-determination of information. Second, many studies have focused on "privacy calculus," which investigates benefits and risks involved with personal information. Third, information privacy concerns (IPC) represents a general perception about information privacy and many empirical studies have tried to develop a model for measuring IPC. Forth, most studies have examined the information privacy issue at individual level and few studies have been carried out on organizations or nations. Lastly, most studies conducted in Korea tend to focus on laws and institutions related to information privacy, while there are few studies for developing an IPC measurement model or finding antecedents and consequences of IPC.

This paper reviews previous studies on how the development of the IT industry directly and indirectly affects employment in the economy and discusses the appropriate role of the government in maintaining and creating jobs. The results of previous studies on effects of IT development and investment on employment could be classified into three major categories. First, IT development directly reduces employment. Second, overall employment could increase. Third, composition of workforce rather than employment itself could change. When discussing the employment effect of IT, policymakers should take into account not only direct employment in the industry but also indirect effects including job creation in other industries, new business creation and productivity growth, since the IT industry exerts positive externality and feedback effects to other industries. Government investment should be focused on infrastructures, which have positive externality effects by creating demands in the private sector, not on direct support for specific firms or industries. In addition, the government should make efforts to lay a foundation for absorbing labor released from the current employment. Accordingly, constructing infrastructures should accompany a system that reflects the private sector's demand.

Based on previous studies on the analysis of conflict management, a methodology has been established to conduct researches on what conflicts had been experienced and how they had been settled down in the process of creating the National Computing & Information Agency(NCIA). Now that e-government plans have come to be promoted by one ministry, many factors which used to produce various conflicts have disappeared. However, there are different types of conflicts expected under the new stage of e-government development. The objective of this paper is to get lessons from the conflict management process in co-locating hardwares in the NCIA, providing the policy implications on the governance structure of e-government implementation. In the meantime, we focus on the importance of trust as a social infrastructure to enhance the efficiency in coordinating different interests among government organizations at stake. It is concluded that the issues on trust should be taken into account in establishing the principles of conflict management in e-government strategies.