'If I Were the Mayor of Nowon-gu~?'... Nowon-gu Calls for Public-Private Partnership Policy Proposals

More Participation, Deeper Deliberation, Agenda Discovery for a United Nowon... Applications Accepted Until the 20th via Nowon-gu Website, Naver Band, or In-Person

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Nowon-gu (District Mayor Oh Seung-rok) is publicly recruiting policy ideas to be jointly implemented by the public and private sectors in 2021.

The theme for resident participation proposals, open until the 20th of this month, is "If I were the Mayor of Nowon-gu?" This is a call for policy ideas for next year to be jointly promoted by residents and administrative agencies, aiming to move away from the traditional administration-led policies and create a healing Nowon through "more participation, deeper deliberation."

Anyone interested in solving local issues can participate, and policy ideas that enable public-private cooperation to address Nowon-gu’s local problems are welcome regardless of the field. However, simple civil complaints, facility construction projects, and projects currently supported by subsidies to private organizations are excluded.

Applications can be submitted through the Nowon-gu Office website (search "협치노원") and Naver Band (search "같이 만드는 협치노원"), or by visiting the Nowon-gu Office Community Department in person.

The proposed agendas will be selected in the first round through online and on-site voting, after which the public and private sectors will jointly establish budgets and detailed plans. Then, the Nowon-gu Cooperation Council, composed of 29 members including 21 private committee members, will finalize the projects as Nowon-gu’s public-private cooperation projects for 2021, reflecting budgets in fields such as culture and sports.

Last year, 11 projects were selected in areas such as culture and sports, local communities, welfare and education, and environmental ecology. A total budget of 700 million KRW allocated through the public-private cooperation council is being implemented this year.

Representative projects include "Ssing Ssing Urin Jayuda" (We Are Free), which provides free maintenance and repair services for electric wheelchairs to guarantee mobility rights for the disabled; "Becoming a Reliable Parent Education" to spread a culture of cooperative childcare; "Youth Culture Workshop," which transforms neglected idle spaces into youth spaces; and "Creating an Environmental Travel Map," which captures vivid local information through an ecological environment resource survey of Nowon.

Mayor Oh Seung-rok said, "Public-private cooperation projects realize an open and empathetic policy where the thoughts of residents become policies." He added, "We ask for active interest and participation so that residents’ creative ideas can be utilized in administration." Community Department