Open Pohang, Tourism Revitalization ... 'Barrier-Free Travel Possible', Leading Industry Through Data Opening!

Providing Travel Services for Tourists with Disabilities through Barrier-Free Travel Data Collection and Open Access

Pohang City Hall.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Dongguk Lee] Pohang City has been selected for the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s ‘Public Data Enterprise Matching Support Project for This Year,’ securing 300 million KRW in national funding.

This public contest project is promoted as part of the Digital New Deal initiative, aiming to build public data through collaboration between public institutions and enterprises and to open it for anyone to use. By employing ‘youth interns’ in the project, it not only provides jobs for young people but also supports them in gaining experience related to data.

The city applied for this project under the theme ‘Opening Pohang City’s Barrier-Free Travel Data for Tourism Activation Accessible to Everyone,’ and after preparing the project through task discovery and enterprise matching since February, it passed the first document evaluation and the second presentation evaluation last month to be finally selected.

The selected project involves hiring local youth interns to build data through on-site verification not only of general information about existing Pohang tourist sites but also surrounding facilities, viewing routes, and barrier facilities, and opening it to citizens to enhance accessibility so that tourism-vulnerable groups can enjoy barrier-free travel in Pohang.

To this end, the city signed agreements with the National Information Society Agency (NIA) and data supply companies and plans to conduct a full survey of major cultural and tourist sites by the end of this year, providing various public data to improve visitor convenience through the construction of barrier-free travel data.

The data built through this project will be linked with the big data integrated platform currently being developed by the city, continuously updated and improved to enhance citizen convenience, and will also be provided as resources on the Pohang City tourism website. It is expected to create new tourist segments through barrier-free travel, generating economic effects as well.

Mayor Kangdeok Lee said, “A lot of data construction is necessary to establish Pohang City as a leading city in the data industry,” adding, “Starting with this project, which is fully funded by national funds, we will continuously secure more data and actively respond to data demands in various social sectors so that public data can create new value and provide high-quality services to citizens.”

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