KOSA Launches Research to Identify Agentic AI Services That Deliver Real-World Value to the Public
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KOSA has launched a study on building the agentic AI ecosystem and identifying policy support tasks with support from the Ministry of Science and ICT and NIA.
Its goal is to identify agentic AI services that deliver real-world value to the public and prepare basic materials for private-sector ecosystem activation, new projects, and government policy making.
It plans to identify service candidates and policy support tasks centered on everyday areas such as payments, shopping, and transportation.
The Korea Software and AI Industry Association (KOSA) said on the 21st that, with support from the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Information Society Agency (NIA), it has launched a study titled "Research on Building the Agentic AI Ecosystem and Identifying Policy Support Tasks." KOSA will identify agentic AI services that deliver real-world value to the public in everyday areas such as payments, shopping, and transportation, while also pursuing policy support tasks.
The goal of the study is to identify agentic AI services that the public can actually feel in their daily lives. It also aims to identify tasks for activating the private-sector ecosystem and prepare basic materials for new projects such as next year's "project to develop agent services that deliver real-world value to the public" as well as for government policy making.
Agentic AI refers to intelligent services capable of autonomous planning, reasoning, and execution. Its range of applications is expanding into transportation, shopping, healthcare, education, and other areas.
Against this backdrop, the government launched the "Agentic AI Alliance" in April. It is pursuing the building of the related ecosystem and the expansion of the industry.
KOSA said discussions on identifying services with real-world value to the public and policy support tasks for private and public-sector expansion are still at an early stage. It added that, as domestic discussions have focused on technology development, there has been a lack of review of commercially viable service models and businessizable use cases.
Accordingly, KOSA has set a direction to reflect private-sector needs, including policy support for technology development and service expansion, review of procurement methods for introducing AI agents, review of data utilization, and review of operating systems. To that end, it plans to operate a study group involving experts from industry and public institutions and reflect the needs of participating companies.
Based on this direction, KOSA plans to carry out two key tasks. As a priority, it has proposed identifying agentic AI services that deliver real-world value to the public, and it will survey overseas service development and use cases while exploring service models in areas closely tied to daily life to analyze their applicability in Korea.
The selected domains are high-demand areas such as payments, shopping, and transportation. KOSA aims to identify around 5 target companies and candidate services for each domain, and to prepare ways for government-supported development agents and government-supported development model context protocol (MCP) to be transferred to service companies and sustained on their own.
Work will also move ahead to first examine the private-sector-centered ecosystem components and industry trends related to agentic AI. The plan is to investigate ecosystem components centered on major private domains and analyze domestic and overseas industry trends to identify tasks for activating the agentic AI ecosystem. In addition, it plans to collect industry feedback in order to identify policy support tasks.
Based on this flow, it plans to identify policy support tasks and areas for institutional improvement. It also intends to identify support tasks that need to be pursued first. Kim Hyun-joo, head of KOSA's AI·AX division, said the value of agentic AI lies in the agent handling tasks in a unified way without users having to move between multiple apps.
Kim Hyun-joo, head of KOSA's AI·AX division, said that success stories are needed first in payments, shopping, and transportation. She added that, as she sees verified technology making it possible to enter global markets, the association will select services that can be applied in practice and push ahead with them. She also said the organization plans to flesh out support measures needed by companies.
Source: IT DAILY · Yang Seung-gap
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