The mission of the Center of Intelligent Society and Policy(CISP) is to promote, support, and conduct policy-relevant research in the context of the intelligent information society. Challenges around new emerging technologies (e.g., AI and big data technologies), increasing public distrust in governments, and complex urban problems need a specialized professional community. CISP provides a plethora of opportunities to delve deeply into and discuss the challenges for students, scholars, and practitioners.

In order to achieve its mission, CISP has a number of academic and practical responsibilities as follows. First, CISP establishes a specialized professional community to train, fund, and support creative next-generation scholars. Second, CISP contributes to evidence-based policy support toward governments. Finally, CISP spreads its accumulated research to the global community of public policy, public management, and digital government.

Since 2021, CISP is currently supported by the Institute Programs in the Humanities & Social Sciences of the National Research Foundation of Korea. The purpose of the program is to foster research institutes for specialized research dedicated to problem-solving, strategic regional research, or pure academic research. Prior to joining the program, CISP had also successfully concluded 10-year-long research projects funded by the Social Science Korea (SSK) grant program of the National Research Foundation of Korea.