'2020 Gangseo-gu Cooperation Council Online Workshop' Held

Completing the First Term Activities This Year and Preparing for the Second Term

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] "The first term was a process of laying the foundation for collaborative governance. Based on the achievements of the first term, I hope the second term of Gangseo-gu collaborative governance will take a step forward." (Jeong??, Collaborative Governance Committee Member)

During the 2020 Gangseo-gu Collaborative Governance Online Workshop

Gangseo-gu, Seoul (Mayor Noh Hyun-song) held the ‘2020 Gangseo-gu Collaborative Governance Online Workshop’ on the 22nd of last month to discuss the direction for promoting the 2nd term community innovation plan.

Since the first term of Gangseo-gu public-private collaborative governance officially began in 2018 as a three-year plan, it is now preparing for the second term.

This workshop gathered to share the collaborative governance achievements of the first term Gangseo-gu community innovation plan and to discuss the Gangseo-type collaborative governance model for the second term.

The first term divided committees into sectors such as education and culture, welfare and women, and village health, appointing members with interest and expertise in each field to operate a public forum to discover agendas that need to be resolved through public-private collaboration in the community and to seek solutions.

The ‘Funfun playground for youth’ opened last year is a representative outcome of public-private collaboration, created by gathering common opinions from both sectors to make a comfortable and free space for young people.

While discovering agendas by sector allows for high-quality agenda identification, there was a limitation in connecting and integrating agendas between sectors due to sectoral silos.

In this workshop, recognizing the shortcomings of the first term, there was a consensus to radically reorganize the promotion system for the second term to advance the discovery of convergent and complex agendas.

The promotion system will be reorganized from sector-based committees to function-based committees such as strengthening the collaborative governance foundation, enhancing collaborative governance capabilities, and discovering collaborative governance agendas, with each committee performing roles suited to its function.

Also, by breaking down sectoral boundaries, the aim is to deeply consider and solve problems across the entire Gangseo-gu from multiple perspectives.

The first term was the initial stage of public-private collaborative governance and was promoted through face-to-face methods to encourage active participation, but the second term will strengthen non-face-to-face methods for efficient meetings in the era of remote communication, while also combining face-to-face methods.

Mayor Noh Hyun-song said, “This year, we tried to continuously promote public-private collaboration through video conferences, live collaborative governance tables, and online workshops,” and added, “Next year, together with collaborative governance committee members, we will build the second term Gangseo-type collaborative governance model with keywords such as convergence and practical problem-solving.”

For inquiries, contact the Collaborative Governance and Decentralization Division of Gangseo-gu Office.

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