Icheon City Signs Digital Twin-Based Cooperation Agreement with Korea Spatial Information Industry Cooperative

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Eom In-yong] Icheon City signed a "Cooperation Agreement (MOU) for the Development and Foundation of Digital Twin in Icheon City" with the Korea Spatial Information Industry Cooperative (Chairman Kim Hak-sung) on the 27th at the Da-ol Conference Room at City Hall.

The signing ceremony was attended by Mayor Kim Kyung-hee, the head of the Advanced Future City Promotion Division, and the director of the Future City Division from Icheon City, as well as Chairman Kim Hak-sung and Vice Chairman Yang Geun-woo from the cooperative.

The agreement aims to implement precision administration and advance urban management through digital twin technology, and was pursued to solidify a smart city foundation through close cooperation with the spatial information industry.

The city and the cooperative agreed through the agreement to pursue comprehensive cooperation across digital transformation, including △providing and analyzing spatial information data tailored to Icheon City's administrative needs △jointly planning and supporting digital twin-based administrative services △cultivating specialized personnel and operating continuous education programs.

Mayor Kim Kyung-hee stated, "Digital twin is a core technology for the city to realize citizen-centered smart administration," and emphasized, "This agreement will be an important starting point for leaping toward a smart city and an inflection point of digital administration that improves the quality of life for citizens."