"Vast Public Data in One Place" ... Seoul City Officially Launches 'Big Data Platform'

Integrated Management of 518 Types of Administrative Data Systems and Over 10,000 IoT Sensors for Traffic, Facilities, and Safety

S-Data Concept Diagram

[Asia Economy Reporter Jo In-kyung] Seoul City announced on the 26th that it will officially begin building a 'Big Data Platform (S-Data Project · Smart Seoul Data)' that stores a vast amount of public data in one place to be utilized in various fields such as transportation, environment, safety, and urban problem-solving.

As the first big data platform among public institutions that integrates, manages, opens, and utilizes public data, it stores and analyzes administrative data from a total of 518 systems owned by the city, as well as urban data collected from over 10,000 IoT sensors throughout Seoul.

The city will standardize and integrate various forms of administrative data managed separately by each department and institution, and open highly useful data to citizens and businesses to establish a public data ecosystem.

To this end, after a two-year preparation process since 2018, the city completed the selection of a project operator this month and will start the first phase of the project next month.

This year, through the first phase, more than 10,000 high-utilization datasets and summary information will be derived from administrative information systems in five fields: transportation, facilities, safety, environment, and smart cities, and a pilot service will be provided for internal staff to use in policy-making. Next year, integrated management data will be expanded sequentially with 134 systems in seven fields including culture, tourism, urban planning, regeneration, and communication (phase 2), and in 2022, 133 systems in eight fields such as finance, taxation, education, welfare, and women (phase 3).

This project will invest a total of 28.9 billion KRW over three years, starting with 10.9 billion KRW this year, and Seoul City plans to open the platform to citizens once all three phases are completed.

Lee Won-mok, Seoul City Smart City Policy Officer, said, "We will provide a fusion environment between heterogeneous data from dispersed institutions and departments, and maximize data utilization through full public data opening. By utilizing the big data platform in policy-making, the quality of policies will improve, and citizens are expected to enhance competitiveness in the private sector by using public data."

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