Seoul at a Glance

 Capital of the Republic of Korea with 600 year history  Area : 605.26 Km2  Population : 10.58 M (2010)  Gross Regional Product : USD 227 Billion (2009)

Seoul extended more & more

1949 1944 1936 1914 1963~2011

Seouls New Identities!

City You Must Visit!

Creative Design City

Competitive City

Seoul Slogan

Seoul, a City of Happy Citizens & a City Loved by the World

Worlds 5th Most Competitive City

Seouls City Competitiveness Ranking

12th

9th

27th
2006 2008

Global Urban Competitiveness

(CASS & Bucknell University)

2010

Seouls City Competitiveness Ranking

Global Financial Centres Index by Z/Yen Group

16th 28th 51st

2008

24th

53rd
2009

35th
2009 2/2 2010 2010 2/2 2011

From 53rd to 16th Place in Just Two Years! 3rd Most Promising City as Future Financial Hub

Seoul, Strong Convention City

5th 7th 9th 9th

2007

2008

2009

2010

Tourists to Seoul

% 9% % 2% 6% 5% 7% 0% - %

%
KOREA

- % CHINA - 9%
2006 2007 2008 2009 JAPAN

Number of Tourists (in 10,000 persons)

Worldwide Visiting Korea Visiting Seoul

90,000

91,900 88,000

93,500

80,100

8 ,600

880 782 6 5 583 689 623 707 795

602 5

615 556

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

UN Public Service Awards

UN Public Service Awards For 7 Policies in 4 Years

UN Public Service Awards

1. Online Policy Discussion Site

UN Public Service Awards

2. Water Now
Real-time Water Quality Report Service

3. Ten-Million Imagination Oasis

UN Public Service Awards

4. Women Friendly City Project

City Administration from Womens Perspective

5. Hope-Plus Account
Asset-Building Program

UN Public Service Awards

6. Self-Empowerment Program for Runaway Teenage Women 7. Citizen-friendly Open Tax Court System

Seouls Brand Power

Wallpaper: Top 5 Design Best Cities

Seoul, UNESCO City of Design

Seouls IT Competitiveness

 Mobile Ownership : 101%(2010)  Internet Penetration : 88.4%(2010)  Broadband Penetration : 34.4%(2010)

Highest in the World, with prices the second lowest globally at US $ 0.08

IT complex

e-Government Services

 120 Dasan Call Center  Ten Million Imagination Oasis  Mobile Seoul(m. Seoul)  Seoul TOPIS(traffic management center)

120 Dasan Call Center

120 Dasan Call Center

120 Dasan Call Center is ensuring happiness for Seoul citizens
Jan. Mar. 2011

Incoming calls handled Service agents Customer satisfaction Public recognition

1,184/day
20 77% 6.6%

40,854 calls/day
551 95.0% 82.5%

Ten Million Imagination Oasis

Ten Million Imagination Oasis Accepted : 234 ideas

<Proposals>

64,798 36,289

9,067 7,729 2,599

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Mobile Seoul(m.Seoul)
 Citizen Participation : e-Poll, Idea OASIS  Real-time Information : Traffic, LBS  Public Information : Tax, Lost & Found
http://m.seoul.go.kr

 City Information : Statistics, City News

m.Seoul Monthly View

Apps for Seoul

Seoul TOPIS

BMS Information Provision

I f . rri ti L t i L ti l i I f . r i

Seoul TOPIS
Seoul BMS

For Public
BIT -Real-time Bus Operation Information -Route and Transfer Info Internet -Real-time Bus Operation Info. -Bus Operation DB

Bus Company

ARS

Mobile

Route and operation Info Bus Arrival Time

Bus ocation Allocating Bus Notice

e-Government Awards

 Ranked First 4 Consecutive Times in the UN-Supported Rutgers Global e-Government Survey  Won the Public Sector Excellence Award at WCIT 2010  Online Policy Discussion Room won the Excellence Award at the UN Public Service Awards  Won the 2010 Asia and Pacific Region Geospatial Technology Award

Challenges facing Seoul

Innovative use of IT required to respond to emerging urban issues
Inter-city Competition
Global Competition for Urban Competitiveness
3rd 9th 8th 10th 0.7C

Low Carbon Green Living Climate Change Increase in Environmental Risk

2.4C 99% 19% 16%

Seoul

Tokyo

Singapore Hong Kong

rban Issues

World averageSeoul averageSeoul

Average Temperature Increase

Korea

Japan USA

Rate of Increase in Carbon Emissions

Ageing, Low Birth Rate Increase in International Residents

263,000

Low Economic Growth Shift to Knowledge Industry

4.5% 5th 3.9% 13th 11th

Ageing societ
57,000

.4%

Intl Residents in Seoul

Economic Growth Rate

Share of Knowledge-based Industr

Changes in Demographic Structure

Changes in Industrial Structure

In 2010, Over 9.7% of population are aged 65 and more.

In 1999

In 2010

Seoul

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Seoul

Tokyo Beijing

Seoul e-Government Roadmap

SMART SEOUL 2015
Information Portal Present Passi e Response to Changes
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nline er i es

Effe ts re ognized by itizens

The Stages of Seouls e-Government Development f

Smart Seoul 2015

Worlds best city in using smart technologies

Free WiFi Services

 10,000 free WiFi service zones by 2015 for 13.5% of Seoul area  Seoul shares its own network Mobile Carriers invest for WiFi zone installation

Bridging Smart Divide

 Hands-on experiences and training on smart devices for one million citizens by 2015  IT training and support for the socially marginalized

Smart Seoul 2015

Worlds best city in using smart technologies

Advancing CCTV Monitoring

 Increasing real-time CCTV monitoring coverage to 100% from 30.7% now  Decreasing crime rate by 10% by changing CCTV response from reaction to prevention

U-Seoul Safety Zone

 To be extended for every elementary school and the marginalized by 2015  Collaborations between Seoul(platform) and mobile carriers(network)

Smart Seoul 2015

Worlds best city in using smart technologies

Seoul Open Data Mart

 Free data for citizens  Seouls public data Open to 35% from 5%  Support private sector in creating diverse business items using public data

Smart Business
 100 private app development centers in Seoul with 2,000 employees  Seoul city trains skilled workers in app business and supports business startup

Who are we?

 A body for global e-Government

 Membership-based Organization
Cities and Local Governments Worldwide

 50 full members & 3 associate members

How have we developed WeGO?

World e-Government Mayors Forum, July 7-9, 2008

 Seoul e-Government Declaration
It is crucial to cooperate with each other through the sharing of experiences and knowledge regarding e-Governance with ICT

 Participants agreed to :
- Form a body for global e-Government - Place the Secretariat in Seoul - Organize the 1st General Assembly of WeGO in 2010

How have we developed WeGO?

World Cities CIO Forum, Sept. 28-30, 2009  Working-level Discussions on:
- Statute of WeGO - Inaugural General Assembly to be held in Seoul in 2010 - Seouls serving as interim president city of WeGO

How have we developed WeGO?

Executive Committee meeting, June 7-8, 2010

 Preparatory Meeting for the Inaugural General Assembly

Inaugural General Assembly of WeGO, Sept. 6-8, 2010

 Official Launch of WeGO along with 50 city delegations worldwide

50 Full Members Worldwide

Cities Participating in Executive Committee meeting 45 cities as of June 1st, 2010

Helsinki

Birmingham Amsterdam La Manche Lisbon Berlin

Minsk Astana Bucharest Baku Tashkent Seoul Tel Aviv Abu Dhabi Muscat Khartoum Addis Ababa Nairobi Dar es Salaam Harare Suva Saga Prefecture Chengdu Nanjing Kathmandu Ningbo Agra Hunan Province Zhejiang Province Hong Kong Dhaka Manila Hue City Quezon Bangkok Batam Jakarta Ulaanbaatar Vladivostok

Edmonton

Frankfurt Paris Barcelona Tunis

San Francisco

Mexico City

Dakar

Caracas

Sao Paulo Mosman

Why did we launch WeGO?

WeGO aims to :
 Share knowledge and experience for e-Governments  Promote exchanges between urban e-Governments  Strengthen digital capacity in pursuit of continuous urban development  Create safer and more convenient cities by renewing urban areas to futuristic cities with the help of information technology

What do we do?
e-Sharing for All Initiative - How to initiate a project
Good Practice Sharing Call for Benchmark Request

Commencement of e-Sharing for All

Coordination by WeGO

What benefits for the participants?

 Advanced cities
- Global partnership and leadership - Overseas business opportunities for local IT industry

 Advancing cities
- Efficient development of e-government - Avoid repeating same mistakes

 Mutual prosperity by developing

- International cooperation for human and system networking : More than just e-government project sharing

What do we do?
WeGO Projects
 e-Gov. Consulting Feasibility Study - January 2011 Conducted for e-Gov. Development of Dar es Salaam City Council, Tanzania,  E-Government Training Program - September 2011 To be provided for WeGO members in Seoul, Korea,

What do we do?
International Cooperation
 Concluded a MOU with the United Nations (January 2011)  Concluded a MOU with the World Bank (June 2011)  MOU to be concluded with East African Community (July 2011)

Thank you!