Suwon Receives Top Prize in 'Korea Big Data Awards' Local Government Category

[Suwon Ilbo=Correspondent Seo Dong-young] Suwon City received the Outstanding Prize (Statistics Korea Commissioner's Award) in the local government category at the '7th Korea Big Data Awards' held on the 2nd at the Sejong Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul.

The Korea Big Data Awards, hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, is an honor presented to local governments, outstanding companies, and business leaders who have contributed to enhancing the global competitiveness of big data and creating added value through big data utilization and revitalizing the data economy.

Suwon City received high praise for establishing and operating a 'Big Data Analysis Platform Service' for efficient public data management by civil servants.

The Big Data Analysis Platform integrates various data and civil complaints data scattered across different departments and projects in Suwon City in a standardized format.

The city constructed the platform from January of last year through March of this year and began operating it in April.

The 'Big Data Analysis Platform Service' consists of ▲internal and external linked systems ▲data repository ▲data attribute information management ▲big data analysis, etc.

Through this, any city official can register public data that was previously managed in Excel or Hangeul files into a data repository (DAM) to share and analyze big data and apply it to necessary tasks.

Additionally, it collects and integrates civil complaints and public opinion received through multiple channels in real-time, making it possible to quickly identify citizen inconveniences and demands, which also aided decision-making for solving various issues and establishing policies.

The city will also provide training to strengthen all civil servants' big data work competencies in the future.

An official from the City's Information and Communications Division said, "We will promote 'data-driven administration' utilizing 'big data,' which is the core of the fourth industrial revolution," and pledged, "We will continue to make efforts to provide customized administrative services to citizens by analyzing big data."