– 25th “1st Seoul Smart City Award”… A total of 240 overseas cities and companies received applications and the final 21 works were awarded.
– ｢Seoul Smart City Forum｣ on the 26th with the theme of ‘Challenges and Inclusion of Digital Innovation’… Pre-registration continues until the 20th (Wednesday)
– Mayor Oh Se-hoon, presiding over the ｢6th WeGo general meeting｣… Discussion of agenda items such as revision of articles of incorporation, election of chairman, selection of venue, etc.
– City, “It will be a jumping-off point for spreading the vision of a people-centered, inclusive smart city around the world.”
□ In order to share and spread the future smart city vision around the world, the city of Seoul started with the <1st ‘Seoul Smart City Prize’ awards ceremony>, <2023 Seoul Smart City Forum>, and <6th WeGO It was announced that the general meeting will be held for two days from Monday the 25th to Tuesday the 26th at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) and the main building of Seoul City Hall.
□ This ‘Seoul Smart City Prize’ awards ceremony is a meaningful event held for the first time in Seoul, a leading smart city in the world. In order to establish a global cooperation system for inclusive growth, the city also held the 'Seoul Smart City Forum 2023' and the '6th WeGO General Assembly' in conjunction with the awards ceremony to discuss the achievements of smart cities and digital technologies around the world. The goal is to provide a forum for discussion to further strengthen smart city cooperation and exchange between global cities and companies while sharing and exchanging opinions with domestic and foreign experts.
○ The 'Seoul Smart City Prize' is an award that Seoul City, in collaboration with the World Smart City Organization (WeGO), aims to resolve the problem of urban polarization and promote inclusive growth by incorporating the value of 'accompanying the weak', which is the city administration philosophy. This award was established in September last year to spread the vision of future smart cities around the world.
○ The 'Seoul Smart City Forum', which celebrated its 8th anniversary this year, shares and spreads the core value of 'accompanying the weak' with cities around the world in an era of great digital transformation where the digital environment is rapidly changing, and promotes the achievements and vision of digital technology. This is a place for discussion.
○ The World Cities e-Government Council (WeGO), which was launched in 2010 under the leadership of the Seoul Metropolitan Government for cooperation and exchange in the smart city field between cities and companies around the world, is the largest international city consultative body in name and reality with 213 member cities and companies. The World Smart Cities Organization (WeGO) changed its name to the World Smart Cities Organization in 2017.
□ As the first event of this future smart city vision, the '25 Seoul Smart City Awards Ceremony' will be held at 17:30 on Monday the 2th at DDP Art Hall Building 2023. Along with greetings from Mayor Oh Se-hoon and City Council Chairman Kim Hyun-ki and congratulatory remarks from singer PSY, 21 final winning works that were highly evaluated for their efforts to 'realize an attractive smart city that accompanies the weak' will be awarded.
○ Seoul City promoted the 3st 'Seoul Smart City Award' contest from March to June, and received a final 6 applications online in three categories, including project (people-centered, technological innovation), leadership, and special award. . Afterwards, a total of 1 winning works were selected through the 3st to 240rd rounds of screening by domestic and foreign smart city experts, and 1 winning works were confirmed through the final screening committee in which Mayor Oh Se-hoon and others participated on the 3th (Monday). Awards are given.
□ The '26 Seoul Smart City Forum' with the theme of 'Challenge and Inclusion of Digital Innovation' will be held in the conference room on the 10rd floor of Seoul City Hall at 3 am on the 2023th (Tuesday) with the participation of global public infrastructure and smart city research leaders and top AI experts. This unfolds.
□ This forum, which begins with an opening speech by Mayor Oh Se-hoon, will be held in three sessions with in-depth presentations and discussions on the light and dark sides of society due to the rapid development of digital technology after the pandemic and policies and vision for pursuing an inclusive smart city. In the keynote speech, Bill Banks (Australia), EY (Ernst & Young) Asia-Pacific infrastructure leader, will share insights on the topic of 'The role of government for citizens in the digital age.'
○ Session1 'Challenges and future of digital technology'In the event, Professor Choi Min-seok of Kyung Hee University's Department of Electronic Engineering served as moderator, and Ahn Hee-cheol, a lawyer at D'Light Law Firm, along with Park Kyeong-ryeol, a professor at KAIST's Graduate School of Science and Technology Policy, and Bae Sun-min, head of KT's AI2XL Research Institute, participated to discuss the rapid development of technology, the resulting brightness and darkness of society, and the future technologies that need to be pursued. Take a look at society.
○ Session2 'Direction and future of inclusive smart cities'In the event, Kim Byeong-jun, a professor of public administration at Kookmin University, participated as the chairperson, along with Jennifer Cowley, president of the University of Texas at Arlington, Ha Jeong-woo, head of Naver Cloud's AI Innovation Center, and Lee Sang-yong, Seoul Metropolitan Government's chief digital officer, to solve various social problems through inclusive smart city policies. We are looking for a plan and envisioning a future smart city.
○ Session3 'Smart city standard Smart city index'proposes a smart city index as a useful tool for evaluation and sustainable management to achieve smart city goals, and explores policy utilization methods. Moon Jae-jae, Underwood Distinguished Professor of Public Administration, Yonsei University, as chair, Bruno Lanvin, Chairman of the Smart City Research Institute at the Swiss Graduate School of International Business Development, Seok-won Lee, Professor at the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University, and Fernando de Pablo Martín, Director of the Digital Bureau of the City of Madrid, Spain. etc. will participate as speakers.
□ The forum will be held online and offline, and any citizen interested in smart cities can participate. Citizens who wish to attend on-site can apply for pre-registration through the forum's official website (https://forum.seoul.go.kr) by Wednesday the 20th. It will also be broadcast live around the world through the Seoul Metropolitan Government's official YouTube channel (youtube.com/seoullive).
○ Seoul City YouTube Channel: (English) www.youtube.com/seoulcityofficial
□ Following the forum, the '6th WeGO General Assembly' will be held at the Seoul City Hall Multipurpose Hall from 26:14 on the 71th (Tuesday). Mayor Oh Se-hoon of Seoul, WeGO's chairman city, presides over the general meeting as chairman, and a total of 200 members from XNUMX member cities, international organizations, institutions, and IT companies gather to discuss and decide on the direction WeGO should take before the next general meeting. plan.
○ WeGO general meeting attendees also have time to directly experience Korean culture and smart city technology by participating in various events such as ▴Seoul Tourist Plaza Tour ▴Seoul City Tour Bus ▴Gangdong-gu Rock Temple Village Hosangnori during the general meeting period. In particular, you can directly experience the developed smart city technology of Seoul by visiting the Smart Seoul Exhibition Hall and Magok LG Science Park.
○ WeGO attendees visit Gwangjang Market, Seoul’s representative traditional market, and have time to experience the food of the Korean common people. WeGO's general meeting is held right before Chuseok, so it is expected that people will be able to enjoy the food and culture of Korea's biggest holiday.
□ At this general meeting, major agenda items will be discussed, including ▴revision of the WeGO Articles of Association ▴election of the next (2023-2026) Chairman City, Vice-Chairman City, and Executive City ▴selection of the host city for the 2026th WeGO General Assembly in 7.
□ Kim Jin-man, Digital Policy Director of the Seoul Metropolitan Government, said, “As digital technology, which is prevalent in everyday life, develops day by day, Seoul City is continuously working to ‘realize an attractive smart city that accompanies the weak.’” He added, “The 1st ‘Seoul Smart City Award ( “We hope that through the ‘Seoul Smart City Prize’ award, we will establish a future smart city model and strengthen the status of smart Seoul, while also serving as a jumping-off point for spreading across the world in creating a people-centered, inclusive smart city.”