Incheon SOS Lab Citizen Researchers 3rd Term Launched... Seeking Solutions for Child Issues in Gyeyang Area

The 3rd Incheon SOS Lab Citizen Researchers Inauguration Ceremony and Idea Workshop was held on the 23rd at Michuhol Tower in Songdo International City. [Provided by Incheon TP]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyesook] The third term of the 'Incheon SOS Lab Citizen Researchers,' where citizens come together to find ideas to solve local child-related issues, has taken its first step.

Incheon Technopark (Incheon TP) held an inauguration ceremony and the first workshop on the 23rd at Michuhol Tower in Songdo International City, attended by 54 Incheon SOS (Solutions in Our Society) Lab citizen researchers.

The Incheon SOS Lab project, operated by Incheon TP in collaboration with Incheon City since 2020, is a type of Living Lab that devises solutions to problems related to citizens' daily lives, focusing on 'child safety' issues such as abuse, health, education, traffic safety, and sex crimes.

The citizen researchers, composed of parents in their 30s and 40s majoring in social welfare, software (SW), child education and counseling, medical workers, and university students, will collaborate with Gyeyang-gu to hold weekly workshops over the next six weeks to discover SW and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) solution ideas to address local child-related problems.

The ideas will be refined into corporate research projects through the participation of local SW companies, experts, and citizen facilitators (facilitators: discussion moderators and promoters).

An Incheon TP official stated, "We plan to support local SW companies in developing research projects for child problem-solving solutions," adding, "Through testing processes, we aim to present these as SW service products that can be utilized anywhere nationwide."

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