Hapcheon-gun Selected as '2021 Public Data Excellence Institution'

Hapcheon County Office building.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Hapcheon-gun, Gyeongnam announced on the 22nd that it was selected as an 'Excellent Public Data Institution of 2021' and received a commendation from the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.

The excellent public data institutions selected this time are a total of 13 institutions, including Hapcheon-gun and Incheon Metropolitan City, which received high scores in the evaluation conducted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety last year on 535 institutions nationwide in five areas: public data management system, opening, utilization, quality, and others (additional points and deductions), supporting innovative growth through public data opening and utilization and improving the convenience of citizens' lives.

Hapcheon-gun was highly evaluated for its efforts to revitalize public data use centered on the private sector, such as discovering new data, promoting the opening of unstructured data with high industrial utilization value, and supporting startups using public data, and became the only basic local government in the county category nationwide to receive a commendation from the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety.

Lee Gyu-su, Director of Administration, said, "There is still much lacking for public data to be directly felt by the residents," and expressed his award remarks, "I hope that more public data will be opened in various fields in the future and that the convenience of residents' lives will improve."

Meanwhile, Hapcheon-gun was also selected as one of the 15 excellent institutions by receiving a high score in the '2020 Public Data Provision Operation Status Evaluation' last October, and will receive a special grant of 25 million won as a financial incentive.

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