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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+

Centros comunitários de aprendizagem

428,000

Pessoas formadas (2020)

793,000

Pessoas formadas (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

O programa Digital Baeumteo da Coreia do Sul opera centros comunitários de aprendizagem com cursos digitais gratuitos e personalizados, dirigidos a idosos, pessoas com deficiência e famílias multiculturais.

Results

O programa gere mais de 1 000 centros e formou 428 000 pessoas em 2020 e 793 000 em 2022, sendo os idosos 56% dos formandos.

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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