Pyeongtaek City Holds 7th Pyeongtaek Civic Cooperation Academy

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Jung Jun-sung] Pyeongtaek City held the "7th Pyeongtaek Civic Cooperation Academy" on the 1st at City Hall's conference room, with approximately 40 participants including citizens and public officials in attendance.

The academy was organized to build consensus on the direction of eup, myeon, and dong innovation among current eup, myeon, and dong heads and civil servants who will work in eup, myeon, and dong areas going forward. This is in preparation for the implementation of the "Eup, Myeon, and Dong Head Resident Recommendation System," which will begin in July, whereby eup, myeon, and dong heads will be selected and appointed through public recruitment to civil servants and recommended by residents.

At the academy on that day, cases from Usan-dong in Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju Metropolitan City were introduced under the theme of "Innovation Cases in Eup, Myeon, and Dong Areas."

Eom Mi-hyun, head of the Welfare Support Division at Gwangsan-gu, Gwangju City, who served as Usan-dong head, said: "Based on the belief that autonomy is the power of residents themselves, we created a community vitality center as a resident community space. We also implemented the '1-Person Household Care Service' that prevents loneliness-related deaths among elderly people living alone by analyzing data with artificial intelligence, and established a big data social safety net. Such proactive administrative efforts by civil servants were able to bring about change in Usan-dong."

The academy on that day was held with limited in-person attendance in accordance with COVID-19 guidelines and was broadcast online through Pyeongtaek City Hall's YouTube channel.

The city plans to hold the next Civic Cooperation Academy in June with content on understanding resident autonomy.