Gwangju City Draws Attention with 'Tasks to Abandon' Report at Tuesday Executive Meeting

Mayor Lee Yong-seop: "Restructuring Work Like AI Gwangju, Focusing on New Administrative Demands"

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] The Tuesday executive meeting of Gwangju Metropolitan City held on the 9th attracted attention by adopting an unusual method of reporting ‘tasks to be discarded’ instead of the conventional major business report format.

Mayor Lee Yong-seop aimed to boldly eliminate tasks that have become unnecessary or less important due to the rapidly changing era, true to AI Gwangju, and to respond more actively to newly emerging administrative demands.

First, the Innovation Communication Planning Officer reported that due to the spread of COVID-19 and the increase in non-face-to-face demand, offline lectures have been reduced and shifted online, so the filming and production of content for the knowledge-sharing platform ‘Aribada’ will be terminated.

From next year, the service will continue as a non-budget project.

Also, since the participation methods and nature of the ‘Gwangju Innovation Participation Group’’s innovation proposals and ‘Baro Communication Gwangju’’s policy proposals are similar, they reported that these will be unified under Baro Communication Gwangju.

The Artificial Intelligence Industry Bureau announced that conventional tasks such as daily event preparation will be abolished and replaced by real-time schedule management and updates using an app.

They also shared plans to aim for a paperless office in the long term, contributing to the realization of carbon neutrality.

The Women and Family Bureau stated that by uploading major materials to the national shared disk in real time for sharing, excessive material requests will be reduced and preparation time shortened.

The General Affairs Division announced the introduction of ‘paperless meetings.’ From this Tuesday executive meeting, smart meetings were conducted using laptops without printing separate meeting materials. Saving paper can reduce carbon emissions accordingly, realizing eco-friendly values, and is expected to contribute to cost reduction and simplification of work.

In addition, common proposals across departments included fostering an efficient meeting culture, simplifying reporting systems, and abolishing unnecessary ceremonies.

Gwangju City plans to verify the validity of the reported contents and implement them, continuously discovering and improving tasks that have become unnecessary due to changes in the administrative environment.

Mayor Lee Yong-seop said, “With the advent of the digital and non-face-to-face era, our society and administrative environment are rapidly changing, but there are still cases where we are trapped in the familiar existing environment,” adding, “As AI Gwangju, we must boldly abolish or reduce tasks that have become unnecessary or less important and focus administrative power on new administrative demands through the restructuring of tasks.”

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