Eunpyeong-gu Wins Grand Prize at Smart Service Competition

Smart City Association Hosts 'Integrated Platform Excellent Urban Service Discovery Competition' Grand Prize Winner... Various Startups Enabled to Participate in AI Technology Through AI Health Platform

[Asia Economy Reporter Jong-il Park] Eunpyeong-gu (Mayor Kim Mi-kyung) won the grand prize at the ‘Integrated Platform Excellent Urban Service Discovery Competition’ hosted by the Smart City Association and sponsored by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on the 3rd.

The ‘Integrated Platform Excellent Urban Service Discovery Competition,’ which began on April 12, selected 8 local governments as finalists on the 14th of last month after preliminary screening of cases submitted by local governments nationwide.

Eunpyeong-gu was selected for the grand prize for its cloud-based AI health center platform that expands the existing AI video reading assistance service to allow various startups to freely add AI medical technologies (existing: AI video reading, expanded: AI eye disease, chronic disease management, etc.) as services. Additionally, it provides subscription/customized services selectable by each local government, raising the standard of public medical welfare services, and achieving results such as the AI health center platform advancing overseas through public-private collaboration with startups.

The evaluation was conducted with 50% of the votes from a panel of experts in smart city-related fields and 50% from on-site voting by citizen participants interested in smart cities and local government officials.

Kim Mi-kyung, Mayor of Eunpyeong-gu, said, “We are very pleased that Eunpyeong-gu’s specialized smart city services have been nationally recognized through this grand prize, and we will strive even harder to create a smart healthy city Eunpyeong that the public can truly feel.”

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