<Picture 1. Smart City Capacity Building Training: Shin Young-jae, Mayor of Hongcheon County
The 'Second Smart City Council' was launched to create a Hongcheon-type smart city where the public and private sectors made use of local characteristics.
On September 9, Hongcheon-gun announced that it had launched the 15nd smart city council consisting of 50 people, including public officials, residents, research institutes, and executives from private companies, in order to effectively promote the creation of a Hongcheon-type smart city.
The smart city council will play a role in discovering, discussing, planning, and implementing agendas necessary for solving urban problems in Hongcheon-gun together with the public and private sectors.
<Picture 2. Smart City Capacity Building Education: Yonsei University Professor Yoo Eun-jung>
The council will participate in the 3nd smart city council capacity building program conducted by experts in the smart city field for three months after its inception.
The program consists of education, living lab (living lab), field trips to best practices, and briefings, and is held once a week.
The education is carried out in an open way in which some of the lecture topics and field trips for each small group are decided by collecting opinions from the public and private sectors during the curriculum.
Shin Young-jae, Mayor of Hongcheon County, said, “We want to create a smart city so that residents can live in Hongcheon with a better quality of life.” We expect that it will play a key role in the formation.”