"K-Address" Beats Europe, Wins Uzbekistan Address Register Technical Assistance Project

Selected after beating France, Spain and others... $330,000 project

Korea's "K-Address" system has won a project to modernize Uzbekistan's address information system, beating European countries in the bidding process.

The Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on November 4 that Korea had been selected for the approximately $330,000 "Technical Assistance Project for Establishing Uzbekistan's National Address Register," commissioned by Uzbekistan's Cadastre Agency through an international tender.

The project is a consulting initiative to modernize the legal, institutional and technical foundations of address administration in Uzbekistan. Korea achieved this by defeating advanced European countries, including France, Spain, Norway, Poland and Hungary, which competed in the tender through the final round.

Korea has built a sustained cooperative relationship with Uzbekistan with the goal of expanding K-Address internationally. Last year, the two countries conducted a feasibility study on modernizing the address system and signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cooperation. This year, Korea has continued to provide local training and consulting.

The Korea Land and Geospatial Informatix Corporation (LX), which leads the project consortium, and Uzbekistan's Cadastre Agency will hold a local project kickoff meeting on November 5 and begin the first field survey and on-site inspections of candidate locations for the pilot project.

From November 22 to 28, Korea will host six Uzbek officials responsible for digital affairs and addresses, including a deputy head of the Cadastre Agency, for a "K-Address Capacity-Building Training Program." Korea plans to share its experience in improving laws and institutions, as well as its approach to operating an address information management system, to build momentum for implementing the project locally.

After successfully completing the technical assistance project, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety plans to actively support domestic IT and address information companies in pursuing opportunities in the large-scale national address register project to follow, as well as in projects linked to multilateral development banks (MDBs).

Kim Min-jae, Vice Minister of the Interior and Safety, said, "Winning this project is a major achievement that proves the excellence of Korea's K-Address system on the international stage. We will strengthen public-private cooperation and support domestic companies' expansion overseas so that K-Address can become a global standard."

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