Yongsan-gu Hosts Smart City Policy School

Over 120 Participants Including Residents, Dijitec High School Students, Professional Firms, and District Office Staff... - Residents Propose Solutions to Directly Address Everyday Inconveniences

Yongsan-gu, Seoul (District Mayor Park Hee-young) held the "1st Yongsan-gu Smart City Policy School" on the 14th at the Yongsan-gu Office main conference room.

About 120 people including residents, students from Digitech High School, professional companies, and district office staff gathered to realize a smart city.

The district promoted this project to share the achievements of the smart city projects with residents and to encourage their participation in creating a smart city using ICT technology.

At the first-ever "Smart City Policy School" held this year, the program included ▲sharing smart city project achievements ▲capacity-building education ▲resident participation discussions.

The policy school program began with a video demonstration of major smart city project achievements promoted by the district. The first video featured the project "Installation of LED Building Number Plates for Safe Return Paths in Yongsan" (Real Estate Information Division), which was selected as the best project (Prime Minister's Award) at the "2023 Active Administration Best Practice Competition."

Following this, the winning entry "Find It! My Yongsan-gu Life" (Digitech High School united team Won5TARS), which received the grand prize at the "Public Data Utilization Smart City Idea Contest," was presented. It provided insight into students' efforts to implement scientific administration that enhances reliability and empathy based on data.

After the presentations, a professional lecturer gave a talk on "Smart Cities in Daily Life and the Importance of Resident Participation." The lecture introduced excellent cases of ICT technology use for residents and staff and emphasized the role and importance of residents' participation in building smart cities.

On that day, idea discussions were held on four topics: ▲transportation ▲safety ▲welfare ▲environment, with about 40 participants from both the public and private sectors.

Participants proposed various ideas for solving urban problems through ICT technology, such as ▲taxi use for the elderly ▲utilization of daytime resident parking zones ▲safe walking in steep slope areas ▲information guidance for women’s safe return paths ▲instructions for separated waste disposal.

Park Hee-young, Mayor of Yongsan-gu, said, "It was a meaningful time for residents to directly seek solutions to everyday inconveniences using smart technology," and added, "I ask for active participation in the policy school so that we can become a smart city closely connected to residents' lives."

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