– In September of last year, the city established the 'Seoul Smart City Award' consisting of three fields to share the value of 'companion and charm' with the world
– Recruited in March and received 3 applications… 240 applications from 1 cities in 47 countries were selected through the first screening
– 7.5~19, 2nd screening is in progress through a screening committee composed of experts in the fields of energy, digital economy, disaster management, etc.
– Prize winners in each category are given privileges such as presentation of best practices at international events hosted by Seoul and publicity at home and abroad.
– The award ceremony will be held at the World Cities Summit Mayors Forum (WCSMF) held at DDP in September.
□ The Seoul Metropolitan Government has begun the screening of the 1st 'Seoul Smart City Prize', which awards innovation cases of city governments, companies, and individuals for inclusive and sustainable development.
□ Seoul City conducted the first round of eligibility screening for the 6st 'Seoul Smart City Prize' last June, and as a result, 1 cities in 1 countries in Europe, America, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, and Asia. 47 applications were selected.
○ From March to June, the Seoul Metropolitan Government promoted the first ‘Seoul Smart City Award’ contest and received 3 online applications for the final three categories: project (people-centered, technological innovation), leadership, and special prize. .
□ The 'Seoul Smart City Prize' is an award that promotes inclusive growth and resolves urban polarization by embedding the value of 'together with the underprivileged', the city's administrative philosophy, along with the World Smart Cities Organization (WeGO). This award was established in September last year to spread the future smart city vision to the world.
○ The World Cities e-Government Organization (WeGO) launched by the Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2010 was renamed the World Smart City Organization in 2017 and is the largest international city consultative organization with 213 member cities and companies. The World Smart Cities Organization (WeGO) is an international consultative body launched by the Seoul Metropolitan Government in 2010 for cooperation and exchange in the field of smart cities between cities and companies around the world.
□ Through this, the city aims to take a leap forward as a leading smart city by actively playing its role as a global platform that spreads future smart city policies to the world and shares and learns best practices of world model cities.
○ Seoul has already been the world's No. 7 e-Government city for seven consecutive times, and has been playing an unrivaled role as a city government leader in information and communication technology (ICT) fields such as e-Government. Last year, it won the best city award at the Barcelona Smart City Awards by proposing a future smart city model as a strategy to 'accompany the digitally weak'.
□ Previously, for the successful promotion of the 'Seoul Smart City Prize', the city appointed Seongbin Lim, CEO of Favors, and Moon Jae-jae, a professor of public administration at Yonsei University, as co-chairmen and formed a promotion committee in March.
○ Seongbin Lim, CEO of Favors, is an expert who has promoted global projects in the fields of green growth, new growth engines, and future cities. He was selected as one of the top 100 people for two consecutive years (2 and 2018).
○ The promotion committee, as the main operating body that presents insights and directions related to the 'Seoul Smart City Prize', provides professional advice, organizes the screening committee, and prepares a multi-faceted cooperation system to promote global publicity and raise awareness. etc. are being promoted.
□ The promotion committee selected efforts to create an inclusive and citizen-centered smart city as a key evaluation factor.
○ The 'Seoul Smart City Prize' promotion committee recommended 1 judges before evaluating the applications selected in the first round, and organized an international video conference on June 16. held to discuss the evaluation criteria and online evaluation system.
○ The evaluation method is designed to include the data collection and analysis process for substituting indicators or variables needed to measure the city's situation or growth potential into statistical formulas.
□ The second screening will be held until the 2th (Wednesday) by a screening committee composed of experts in various smart city fields such as energy, digital economy, disaster management, and urban development, and around 19 teams will be selected. Afterwards, the final winner(s) will be selected through a third round of screening, and the award ceremony will be held at the 'World Cities Summit Mayors Forum' (WCSMF)' held at the DDP Art Hall 42 on Monday, September 3th.
○ Website related to 'Seoul Smart City Prize' (http://www.seoulsmartcityprize.com/)
□ Award categories are composed of project, leadership, and special awards, and prize winners in each category are given privileges such as presentation of best practices at international events hosted by Seoul City and publicity at home and abroad.
○ In collaboration with GGGI (Global Green Growth Institute), a special award is given to reflect the global competitiveness of smart cities in cooperation with IMD (International Management Development Institute) to aim for an eco-friendly city according to climate change.
○ In addition, in connection with the international training course of the Seoul Human Resources Development Institute, the Smart City Seoul course training program reflecting the value of 'charm and companion' is operated for those who wish to become civil servants in award-winning cities. It plans to actively support consulting to apply best practices of urban technology to other cities and promote overseas expansion of related domestic and foreign companies.
□ Meanwhile, the Seoul Metropolitan Government has been continuously promoting people-centered, inclusive and innovative smart city policies to prepare for the rapidly changing future society and to solve various and complex urban problems.
○ Seoul’s excellent smart infrastructure and services have already received high attention and recognition worldwide, and many overseas cities and public institutions visit every year to benchmark such excellent smart city policies.
○ The Seoul Metropolitan Government is promoting a digital inclusion policy so that all citizens can enjoy the benefits of digital. Based on this, it provides customized digital services for the socially underprivileged.
□ Park Jeong-sook, Secretary General of the World Smart Cities Organization (WeGO), said, “One of WeGO's main tasks is to narrow the gap in smart city development between cities. The 'Seoul Smart City Award' presents a common agenda for humanity that people-centered technological innovation can show the future of a sustainable city. We will work with Seoul, the chair city, to develop this award into a global award so that it can be established as a platform that sets the standard for smart city policies.”
□ Kim Jin-man, Digital Policy Officer of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, said, “Amidst the rapid rise of digital core technologies in daily life worldwide, Seoul continues to challenge and attempt toward the future in an ever-changing life. "Through the enactment of the 'Seoul Smart City Prize', which contains the values of 'accompanying the weak' and 'charming special city', people who connect and integrate each other digitally We will share and cooperate with the world to share the vision of a central inclusive smart city.”
Source: Seoul Metropolitan City