Digital Government and Smart Cities in the Digital Transformation Age: Focusing on Knowledge Transfer to Partner Countries

The demand for knowledge transfer and experience sharing in terms of digital government and smart cities among partner countries has significantly increased. Digital government-related projects have been mainly proposed for the convenience of the system providers for the short-term or one-time instance without considering the mid-term to the long-term direction of digital government in partner countries. Due to this limitation, after the Knowledge Transfer projects are completed, the government partner countries that participated in the projects have examined the Knowledge Transfer projects and need to build improvement plans to promote the related project in efficient, effective, and sustainable ways with mid-term to long-term perspectives. This study focuses on the knowledge transfer projects in the digital government and smart cities that the Korean government and major public institutions carried out and analyses the status of digital knowledge transfer or official development assistance (ODA) projects from 2011 to 2020. In doing so, the study looked into establishing public sector systems such as digital government and smart cities and analysed the current status and research results of domestic and foreign studies related to assessment and diagnosis. Through this, major factors that determine the performance of digital government ODA were identified, and an analysis framework was derived for the analysis of existing cases of digital government knowledge transfer implementation.