Busan City Selected as an 'Excellent Institution' in the 2023 Local Government Innovation Evaluation

Opening Public Data, Improving Public Services and Organizational Culture in 5 Areas

Mayor Park Hyung-jun: "We Will Actively Respond to Changing Times and Create Waves of Innovation"

Busan City was selected as an excellent institution in the '2023 Local Government Innovation Evaluation' hosted by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on February 29.

Busan City Hall.

The 'Local Government Innovation Evaluation' is conducted annually nationwide to strengthen the autonomous innovation capabilities of local governments and to drive the creation of innovation outcomes that residents can feel. The evaluation was carried out on 10 detailed indicators across three categories: innovation capability, innovation performance, and public perception.

The city received high marks in areas such as resident communication policy, public data openness, public service improvement, data-driven work efficiency, and improvement of work methods and organizational culture. With this selection as an excellent institution, the city will receive government awards along with special grants and other benefits.

To communicate with residents, the city is promoting initiatives such as holding 'Governance Day,' implementing resident participatory budget projects, selecting the 'Citizen Sympathy Administration Best,' as well as operating the 'Citizen Proposal System' and the 'Busan I Like It' policy idea contest.

Additionally, the city operates various Busan-style online platforms that involve citizens, including the 'Citizen Open Maru,' where citizens directly participate, and the 'Busan Regional Problem-Solving Platform,' where local residents identify regional issues themselves and collaborate with the government, local governments, and institutions to solve them.

To address medical blind spots, the city is expanding the operation of the 'Visiting Medical Bus' for medically vulnerable groups from 3 to 5 buses, and broadening the project targets from welfare centers to include shantytowns, homeless facilities, plazas, and facilities for the disabled, thereby expanding public services that citizens can actually feel. These achievements appear to have been recognized, resulting in this positive outcome.

Mayor Park Hyung-jun said, “This selection as an excellent institution is thanks to the efforts of all employees working for innovation and the interest shown by citizens,” adding, “We will continue to create waves of innovation so that the public sector can actively respond to the changes of an era that demands creativity and novelty.”

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