Suwon Creates Citizen-Centered Smart City

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Kang Han-seo] Suwon City has organized a task force team to facilitate the smooth implementation of the Smart City Challenge project.

On the 11th, the city held its first strategic meeting of the task force team at the City Hall Disaster Safety Situation Room and agreed to actively cooperate in advancing the Smart City Challenge project.

The ‘Smart City Challenge Project’ led by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is an initiative that commercializes and disseminates smart solution services capable of solving urban problems by utilizing creative ideas from local governments, private enterprises, and universities, thereby fostering and supporting new businesses.
Suwon was selected as a project site in May.

The task force team includes a governance structure comprising Suwon City and 11 companies—Dankook University and Daeyoung UBITech, which are responsible for developing the challenge project plan, as well as Samsung SDS, Innodep, and KT.

The corporate governance provides smart city solutions and ideas and supports data collection and utilization for project pilot implementation. Suwon City provides budgetary and administrative support, including regulatory sandboxes, for project advancement.

By the end of this year, the city will advance the ‘New 1794 King Jeongjo No.1 Project’ centered on Haenggung-dong, Paldal-gu.

Based on 5G technology, the city will collect and analyze urban data in real time and implement the ‘Mobile Digital Twin’ project, where citizens hold sovereignty over data.

The plan is to provide the ‘Haenggung-dong in Your Hand’ solution in and around Suwon Hwaseong, Korea’s first planned city built by King Jeongjo in 1794.

Meanwhile, a smart city is a so-called ‘smart city’ that applies advanced information and communications technology (ICT) to public services and networks public functions. It is a futuristic advanced city where Internet access is available anytime and anywhere, and advanced IT technology can be freely used.

Jo In-sang, director of the Planning and Coordination Office and operational chief of the Smart City Challenge project task force, said, “We will work with corporate governance to create a smart city centered on citizens,” and added, “We will do our best to ensure that this project creates new businesses and jobs.”