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Digital Baeumteo – National Digital Competence Training Network

South Korea · Seoul · See the South Korea profile

South Korea's Digital Baeumteo programme operates 1,000+ community learning centres, training 428,000 people in 2020 and 793,000 in 2022 via free customised courses targeting older adults (56% of trainees), people with disabilities, and multicultural families.

1,000+

Community learning centres

428,000

People trained (2020)

793,000

People trained (2022)

Digital Baeumteo – National Digital Competence Training Network

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) / National Information Society Agency (NIA)
Period: 2020–present
Keywords: Older people, people with disabilities, multicultural families, digital skills

Context

South Korea's Digital Baeumteo programme operates community learning centres offering free customised digital courses, targeting older adults, people with disabilities and multicultural families.

Results

The programme runs 1,000+ centres and trained 428,000 people in 2020 and 793,000 in 2022, with older adults making up 56% of trainees.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-06-21
Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) / National Information Society Agency (NIA) — accessed 2026-06-21
Seoul Metropolitan Government – Digital Inclusion Programmes — accessed 2026-06-21
Open Government Partnership – Enhancing Digital Inclusiveness KR0060 — accessed 2026-06-21
MSIT – Korea Digital New Deal 2.0 Action Plan 2022 — accessed 2026-06-21

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Quality score: 92/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 6% in this catalogue (573 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

Multi-modal delivery combining 1,000+ community centres, mobile outreach buses, robot-assisted senior learning (UNESCO NetExplo Award 2021), and an AI literacy module from 2023 demonstrates evidenced innovation beyond standard training models.

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Institutionalised under MSIT/NIA since August 2020 with annual government budget, expanded each year, and evolved into AI-Digital Baeumteo by 2023—well beyond a pilot.

Evaluation evidence1/1

Seoul Metropolitan Government publishes annual participation data (2019–2022); OGP commitment KR0060 tracks national outcomes; academic studies on outcomes published in peer-reviewed literature.

Demonstrated reach1/1

793,000 trained in 2022 alone; seniors 60+ make up 56.1% of participants; mobile bus extends reach to all 17 Korean municipalities including remote areas.

Documented learning1/1

OGP commitment reports, MSIT annual reviews, and peer-reviewed literature document the community centre and mobile instructor model; lessons explicitly shared via OGP platform.

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Evidoria. Digital Baeumteo – National Digital Competence Training Network. Persistent ID: cf7130fa-1c22-4a96-a086-8033fc4c4616.

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