Eunju Lee, Seoul City Council Member, "T-money Seoul City Transportation Big Data Management and Utilization Measures Must Be Thorough"

Emphasizing the Need to Utilize T-money Seoul City Transportation Card System for Creating Added Value and Social Contribution...

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Seoul Metropolitan Council Transportation Committee member Eunju Lee (Democratic Party, Nowon 2) urged T-money on the 2nd, during the 299th extraordinary session's T-money business report, to thoroughly manage and supervise Seoul's transportation big data.

T-money started in July 2004 alongside the reorganization of Seoul's public transportation system and has been performing tasks such as building and settling Seoul's transportation card system to date. It is now preparing for the upcoming 3rd generation transportation card system in 2023.

According to Councilor Lee Eunju, during the previous administrative audit, she requested Seoul City and T-money to provide preliminary reports on issues related to the 2nd generation transportation card system project, including controversies over the end of the service life, prevention of recurrence of collusion among companies in 2013, and preparations for the upcoming 3rd generation transportation card system. However, she first reprimanded that T-money did not provide any reports on these matters.

In particular, Councilor Lee pointed out, “T-money has grown by taking charge of building and settling Seoul's transportation card system for about 20 years since 2004, and the amount of transportation big data generated must be considerable. However, there is no information about the current status or management of this data anywhere in the business report.”

In response, T-money stated that recognizing the importance of this big data, it has been actively managing the data since 2018 and provides data excluding personal information to necessary private institutions through a big data platform. They also mentioned that some of the data is considered to have public nature.

Furthermore, Councilor Lee emphasized that T-money's big data clearly originates from data generated over 20 years of building and settling Seoul's transportation card system with Seoul City, and it is evidently public data.

She continued, saying that the current government's data utilization policy focuses on opening and using public data from the demander's perspective and policies that provide convenience to citizens' lives. She stressed once again that T-money's data is public data, that is, transportation data of Seoul citizens, and if there is value creation through this data, it must definitely be returned to the citizens of Seoul.

Finally, Councilor Lee urged, “T-money data is public data of Seoul citizens, and the value created from transportation projects using this data must be socially returned to Seoul citizens. Measures regarding this will be clearly emphasized and included in the upcoming 3rd generation transportation card system construction, and we will monitor this closely.”

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