Mayor Park Won-soon Delivers Keynote at US CES... Introduces "Digital Citizen Mayor's Office"

'Values and Future Vision of Smart City Seoul' Speech
Direct Demonstration of Digital Citizen Market Office at 'Seoul Hall'
Meeting with Chairman Gary Shapiro to Explore Cooperation Measures

Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon delivers a New Year's address at the 2020 Seoul Metropolitan Government's opening ceremony held at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on the 2nd. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunju Lee] On the 8th (local time), Park Won-soon, Mayor of Seoul, delivered a keynote speech at the CES Special Session held in Las Vegas, USA, on the theme of the values and future vision that Smart City Seoul aims for.

As the first Seoul mayor to participate in CES, Mayor Park spoke in English for about five minutes, presenting the core value of Smart City Seoul as "people-centered sustainable innovation" and introduced Seoul's smart city technologies and policies.

Mayor Park introduced Seoul's plan to install free public Wi-Fi throughout the city. He also announced plans to collect urban data through thousands of IoT sensors and use this data to innovate public services.

After the speech, Mayor Park continued discussions with panelists from various countries. To Omar Khan, Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Magic Leap, Laura Skeval, co-founder of StreetLight Data, and others, Mayor Park introduced the "Owl Bus," which derives routes using call volume big data, the world's first "5G Converged Autonomous Driving Testbed," and the "Our Neighborhood Store Commercial Area Analysis Service," which utilizes 10 billion data points per month.

After the special session, Mayor Park demonstrated the "Digital Citizen Mayor's Office" at the CES Seoul Pavilion. For about 10 minutes, he showed how disaster incidents and their handling status, real-time air pollution levels, and traffic conditions are monitored. The Digital Citizen Mayor's Office is a smart city platform that allows real-time comprehensive understanding of all urban phenomena occurring in Seoul. For this CES, the city installed six 55-inch screens to create a Digital Citizen Mayor's Office of the same size as the Seoul City Hall mayor's office. The Seoul Pavilion was set up in Eureka Park within CES.

Earlier, Mayor Park met with Gary Shapiro, chairman of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the organizer of CES, to explore exchange and cooperation plans between Seoul and the association.

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