Busan City and SK Telecom Sign Business Agreement for Developing '15-Minute City Indicators and Index'

Mutual Cooperation for Developing '15-Minute City' Indicators and Indexes

Fusion and Analysis of Public and SK Telecom Communication Data

On the 12th at 5 PM, Busan City will sign a business agreement with SK Telecom for the ‘Development of 15-Minute City Indicators and Indexes’ at the International Protocol Room on the 7th floor of City Hall.

Busan City Hall.

Attending the signing ceremony will be Deputy Mayor An Byeong-yoon and SK Telecom Vice President Jang Hong-seong, who will pledge mutual cooperation in developing urban management indicators using big data.

Although development strategies and urban indicators for securing city competitiveness have been prepared so far, existing indicators were mainly measured and evaluated based on input indicators such as budget expenditure and construction progress, which had limitations.

The ‘15-Minute City Indicators’ will be designed to meet three major policy goals?accessibility, solidarity, and ecology?and nine realization values by collecting opinions from experts and citizens.

The ‘accessibility’ category will consist of indicators closely related to walking, health and care, and jobs (local economy), while the ‘solidarity’ category will be developed to measure the activation levels of housing, community, education, and culture. Additionally, the ‘ecology’ category will include green spaces, third places, eco-life, and will be structured to diagnose future development potential.

Once this agreement is signed, ▲ Busan City will develop 15-minute city indicators and indexes through expert consultation, including data on population movement within living areas (walking, cycling, etc.), revitalization of local alley markets, and usage status of facilities (parks, etc.), and ▲ SK Telecom will cooperate to build an analysis platform for indicator measurement by comparing actual usage time, stay purposes, and means of transportation using data based on its AI location positioning and analysis technologies (Geovisioni/LITMUS) derived from base stations.

When the 15-minute city indicators and indexes are developed, measured, and analyzed, citizens will be able to understand how the outcomes of the 15-minute city initiative have changed compared to the past.

The developed indicators can be used as basic data for creating and improving living areas tailored to regional characteristics. Furthermore, by analyzing changes in the measured indexes over time, the effects of related policies can be precisely understood in the future.

Busan City plans to complete the development of these indicators and indexes by the end of this year and apply them next year to pilot living areas under development to verify their effectiveness and make improvements and supplements.

Deputy Mayor An Byeong-yoon expressed strong determination, saying, “This agreement between Busan City and SK Telecom will be a good example of data-driven administration. Our city plans to expand this so that users can easily check the status of the 15-minute city development and utilize it as concrete measurement indicators for data-driven urban management.”

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