Selected as a Collaborative Agenda for Gender Sensitivity Education and More to Make Dobong a Women-Friendly City

Online Voting for 'Hyupchi Dobong Online 50+ Roundtable Meeting' on 9-10th Selects Cooperation Agenda... Reflecting Residents' Opinions, Approved by Hyupchi Dobong District Council for Promotion as '2021 Community Innovation Plan'

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Dobong-gu (Mayor Lee Dong-jin) held the ‘Co-Governance Dobong Online 50+ Roundtable Meeting’ over two days from the 9th to the 10th to select the agenda for the ‘2021 Community Innovation Plan District-Level Plan’ proposed by residents.

The ‘Co-Governance Dobong 50+ Roundtable Meeting’ is a distinctive deliberative public forum unique to Dobong-gu, where various co-governance stakeholders gather to prioritize co-governance agendas and collect residents’ opinions for establishing the community innovation plan.

This year, the 50+ Roundtable Meeting was conducted online in a non-face-to-face format to prevent COVID-19.

At the roundtable, 120 online judges reviewed about 2,500 agenda items discovered through resident proposals and citizen participation budget contests. After a total of seven preliminary review sessions, three agendas were selected from eight extracted agendas as those hoped to be promoted through public-private co-governance in 2021.

Prior to this, the 120 judges, formed through an open recruitment process, shared materials and gathered opinions on the agendas in a group chat room operated from June 2 to 12. This was to compensate for the inability to deliberate face-to-face directly.

Additionally, to help judges fully understand the agendas, detailed outlines of the community innovation plan implementation and explanatory videos for each of the eight agendas were shared.

Through the ‘Co-Governance Dobong Online 50+ Roundtable Meeting’ held over two days from June 9 to 10, four agendas considered essential for solving community problems were finally selected from the total of eight review items.

The selected agendas are ▲ Gender-sensitivity education for a women-friendly Dobong ▲ Formation of community networks and emotional support for single-person households ▲ Systematization of village media activities to activate resident communication ▲ Creating a disaster-safe Dobong.

The selected agendas will be reflected with residents’ opinions and sufficiently discussed by early July to be concretized into an implementation plan.

Also, with the approval of the Co-Governance Dobong Council, they will be finalized as the ‘2021 Community Innovation Plan.’ If the final approval from Seoul City is obtained by the end of August, a budget subsidy of 1 billion KRW will be supported for 2021.

Currently, the district is promoting 10 projects, including ‘Realizing Sustainable Co-Governance Dobong,’ which was selected as a district-level plan project under last year’s community innovation plan.

The district is conducting projects together with the private sector by forming co-governance forums for each project, supported by a budget of 1.05 billion KRW from city and district funds.

Meanwhile, in 2016, Dobong-gu was the first among nationwide basic local governments to enact the ‘Basic Ordinance for Activating Public-Private Co-Governance in Dobong-gu,’ an institutional foundation for sustainable co-governance.

Moreover, Dobong-gu was the first autonomous district in Seoul to establish a community innovation plan, leading regional co-governance proactively.

Mayor Lee Dong-jin of Dobong-gu stated, “I would like to thank the online judges who actively shared their opinions and participated in voting at the 50+ Roundtable Meeting held online due to COVID-19. We will do our best to ensure that the selected agendas mature through the co-governance process and are implemented so that policies that residents can feel are established.”

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