Gwangju Dong-gu Selected as an Excellent Institution in Local Government Innovation Evaluation

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Dong-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City (Mayor Im Taek) announced on the 16th that it was selected as an excellent institution in the ‘2019 Local Government Government Innovation Evaluation’ hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, securing a financial incentive of 50 million won.

This evaluation was conducted on 243 metropolitan and basic local governments nationwide, and based on the ‘2019 Government Innovation Comprehensive Promotion Plan,’ it assessed 14 indicators across three major categories: ▲Autonomous Innovation ▲Innovation Performance ▲Innovation Diffusion and Public Perception.

To enhance the fairness and objectivity of the evaluation, both an expert evaluation group and a public evaluation group participated in the assessment.

Dong-gu has been focusing on discovering 35 innovation tasks centered on the vision of ‘Realizing a Happy Dong-gu for Residents’ to promote government innovation. Among these, it received favorable evaluations in administrative innovation areas such as autonomous innovation tasks including the creation of a humanities city and a youth ecological city, strengthening social value fields such as establishing an integrated job support system and basic welfare standards, and activating resident participation including the enhancement of the resident participatory budgeting system.

Im Taek, Mayor of Dong-gu, said, “The active interest and voluntary participation of residents have led to being selected as an excellent government innovation institution for three consecutive years since 2017,” and added, “We will continue to strive to become an administrative innovation institution that communicates and empathizes with residents.”

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