Hapcheon-gun Selected as an Excellent City/County in Regional Informatization Level Assessment

The Only City Among 18 Cities and Counties in Gyeongsangnam-do at Level 3

Hapcheon County Office Building Exterior (Photo by Hapcheon County)

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongnam Province, announced on the 22nd that it was included among the excellent cities and counties at the Level 3 Intelligent Informatization stage, corresponding to about 7% (16 out of 228) of basic local governments, in the 2020 "Regional Informatization Level Diagnosis" conducted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety targeting metropolitan and basic local governments.

Level 3 Intelligent Informatization corresponds to the stage of "establishing informatization in local administration and integrating intelligent informatization into local administration." Among the 228 basic local governments, about 5% (11) are at Level 1, and about 88% (201) are at Level 2.

The basic local governments that received the Level 3 Intelligent Informatization diagnosis include 3 in Seoul Special City, 1 in Busan Metropolitan City, 5 in Gyeonggi Province, 1 in Gangwon Province, 2 in Chungcheongbuk Province, 2 in Jeollabuk Province, 1 in Jeollanam Province, and 1 in Gyeongsangnam Province. Among the 18 local governments in Gyeongsangnam Province, Hapcheon-gun was the only one included in Level 3 Intelligent Informatization.

The Regional Informatization Level Diagnosis has been conducted annually since 2017 for 245 metropolitan and basic local governments, establishing a regional informatization service level diagnosis model to evaluate the level stages of the comprehensive informatization index and sector-specific indices by region.

This year, to strengthen responsiveness in the intelligent informatization era, the diagnosis was conducted from a comprehensive perspective encompassing infrastructure, service delivery systems, and performance, rather than focusing on individual information systems.

A county official stated, "It seems that the efforts to stably establish informatization in local administration and to integrate new technologies have been measured at the Level 3 regional informatization level." He added, "We will strive to further mature and develop regional informatization in the rapidly advancing intelligent informatization era."

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