Mayor Lee Yong-seop: "Challenging Goals Must Be Set to Achieve Performance in Public Institutions"

Presiding Over Public Institution Heads Meeting... Sharing Last Year's Results and This Year's Plans

On the afternoon of the 17th, Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, attended the February Public Institution Heads Meeting held in the city hall's medium conference room to discuss each institution's performance achievement plans for this year. Photo by Gwangju Metropolitan City

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] On the afternoon of the 17th, Lee Yong-seop, Mayor of Gwangju Metropolitan City, presided over a meeting of heads of 25 public institutions, including Gwangju Urban Corporation, held in the city hall's medium conference room, sharing the 2020 public institution performance achievement evaluation results and the 2021 plans.

According to the city's performance evaluation results for last year's public institution performance achievement goals, 11 institutions, including Gwangju Urban Railroad Corporation and the Gwangju Credit Guarantee Foundation (재), were selected as excellent institutions.

The Urban Railroad Corporation received high scores as an excellent institution in the national core infrastructure disaster management evaluation and railroad safety management level evaluation, while the Gwangju Credit Guarantee Foundation (재) received high scores for acquiring ISO37001 (Anti-Corruption Management System) and efforts to support small business owners affected by COVID-19.

In particular, at this meeting, challenging goals related to this year's ‘One Institution One AI Service (Policy)’ were announced, including ▲ the establishment of a smart disaster safety system using IoT sensors and big data ▲ introduction of AI-based curation services on the Gwangju Aikeum platform ▲ construction and increased utilization services of climate environment big data, attracting attention.

Mayor Lee Yong-seop said, “As COVID-19 has continued for over a year, causing increasing difficulties in the local economy, an active fiscal role in the public sector is more necessary than ever,” adding, “While actively promoting rapid fiscal execution in the first half of the year, each institution should establish distinctive ‘Alley Market and Traditional Market Revitalization Plans’ to help revitalize local small businesses and traditional markets and take the lead in the good consumption movement.”

He continued, “In an era of great transformation where daily life and social and economic systems are completely changing centered on artificial intelligence, innovative management is required, including breaking existing work areas and methods and pioneering groundbreaking business areas,” emphasizing, “Challenging goals must be set to achieve performance in public institutions.”

He also urged, “The AI policies (services) announced by each institution should be continuously revised and supplemented to lead Gwangju’s development, improve citizen convenience, and enhance work efficiency and productivity by utilizing IoT, big data, etc., befitting a city aspiring to be an ‘AI-centered city.’”

Furthermore, he requested, “To realize the Gwangju-type Green New Deal goal of a carbon-neutral, energy self-sufficient city by 2045, each institution should establish its own implementation standards.”

After the public institution heads meeting, the city plans to finalize the overall public institution performance achievement plan and conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the execution results in January next year, reflecting the results in the institution heads’ management evaluations.

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