The government has prepared a comprehensive plan for developing digital talent, which aims to foster 1 million talent by 2026. In order to foster talented people by level, such as industry-professional talent, digital technology convergence talent, and talented people who are familiar with digital technology in everyday life, the government plans to promote customized policies.

In addition, information education is greatly strengthened from the elementary and secondary education stage to increase the digital familiarity of future generations and expand the base of digital talents.

On the 22nd, the government reported a comprehensive plan prepared by the relevant ministries at the State Council, and decided to implement the implementation plan for the government, education and industries for the next five years.

The number of talented people in the digital field is about 99,000 last year, and the demand for talent is expected to be about 738,000 over the next five years. Even after the essentialization of software education, education and industries continue to raise the need for strengthening digital education.

As a result, we have prepared a policy task that contains various levels of talent training. In particular, in order to support the smooth implementation of the digital talent development tasks, the company will promote the transition with a digital education system.

■ Fostering professional talent, following a semiconductor plan

The government has decided to apply the higher education regulatory reform tasks and contracts related to the ‘Semiconductor-related talent development plan’ announced on the 19th of last month to the digital field.

The company plans to expand its digital innovation-sharing university, software-oriented university, and new industrial-specific colleges and expand the major. In addition, the four-stage BK21 project will foster new researchers in the new industry, and expand the graduate school in digital fields such as artificial intelligence, meta bus, cyber security, and big data.

By promoting the research infrastructure specialization, the company plans to support research in ICT convergence and reorganize the University Information and Communication Technology Research Center into 80 targets by 2027, focusing on digital strategic technology.

SW and AI specialized curriculum for gifted schools, science high schools, science high schools will be piloted this year and expanded and operated gifted classes.

■ Humanities and social majors and digital convergence

In order to support the improvement of convergence capacity of various majors and digital technologies such as humanities society, the university-private linked curriculum will be introduced from next year. Through this, we support university innovation to cultivate convergence skills and flexibly bachelor’s systems.

It is designated as an excellent colleges by attempt as a vocational vocational educational institution, fostered high-level retirees as digital conversion experts, and expands digital capacity strengthening training for those in various industries.

It supports various digital curriculum operations led by companies, and provides additional government support by certifying its own digital curriculum operating companies as a digital leading club.

It also operates digital vocational training courses in Polytechnics and expands private-led vocational training.

Through the university innovation support project, we will support the autonomous digital innovation of the university and provide new technologies such as digital in K-MOOC.

■ Expansion of digital education base

In order to expand the base of digital education, we first increase the number of classes and introduce information elective courses in elementary schools. In the middle and high school courses, the principal will be expanded. Coding education is also required for elementary and secondary courses.

By 2026, 180 schools will be operated with artificial intelligence (AI) convergence education-oriented high schools, and the opportunities for digital education are expanded to various angles through joint curriculum through digital camps and online high schools after school.

Adult digital competency diagnosis surveys will be conducted in 2024 to expand literacy education and establish a talented bridge that supports systematic growth as a digital talent.

In order to expand the teachers, the company will use the information curriculum and also to improve regulations and provide support measures to use private experts as university professors. In order to improve the convergence capacity and to resolve the tour of the tour, the number of information computers will be increased. The AI convergence education training is also expanded. It also reflects the standards for digital literacy in the details of teaching courses.

It will also establish the AI Education Promotion Act and the ‘Artificial Ethics Standards’ in the field of education, and to build a digital-based teaching and learning integration platform and MyPortpolio.

To this end, it will establish a specialized institution that supports digital talent development policies and business research.

Deputy Minister of Education, Sang-Yoon Jang, said, We will actively cultivate digital-friendly talents within the educational system throughout the period of the period of life so that all citizens who live in the digital transformation era can fully have digital capabilities as basic skills.