The ‘Big Data-Based Seongnam City Youth Policy Proposal Contest’ successfully concluded, and an online collection of policy proposals submitted by the participants is scheduled to be released.
Supported by Seongnam City Hall, Seongnam City Council, and Seongnam Office of Education, and hosted by the Seongnam Youth Foundation, the ‘Big Data-Based Seongnam City Youth Policy Proposal Contest’ was held as a competition where participants proposed policies and ideas necessary for community change amid the digital transformation of education, with the aim of linking these proposals to actual policies.
With the core keywords ‘Untact’ and ‘Big Data,’ this 10th edition of the contest was conducted entirely online in a non-face-to-face policy proposal format. Both submissions and evaluations were carried out online, and the final winner was decided through a citizen vote streamed on YouTube on December 15 of last year. Awardees included student Eun Gabi, who proposed the ‘Seongnam-style Cultural Belt Movement,’ and the Pixel Team, which proposed ‘Untact Volunteer Activities for Youth and Marginalized Groups,’ along with six other teams who received three awards including the Seongnam Mayor’s Award.
This contest utilized 35GB of floating population data provided by SK Telecom and was conducted in a big data-based problem-solving proposal format, leading to the discovery of policies that can be practically implemented, which will be disclosed in this collection. The data measured the population of Seongnam City from January 2019 to September 2020, divided into approximately 35,000 grids of 2,500㎡ each. It includes information on age groups, gender, and even time. The Seongnam Youth Foundation secured the data through the ‘AI Processed Data Voucher’ project by the Korea Data Industry Promotion Agency. The foundation is also strengthening data literacy education by establishing a big data experience center at the Yatap Training Center, which opened in 2020.
Despite social distancing measures, the event was successfully completed with the participation of 5,197 direct and indirect participants. At the opening ceremony, Seongnam Mayor Eun Su-mi stated, “Data interpretation skills are essential for youth living in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” and pledged to “do our best to expand the data environment.” Seongnam City Council members Park Eun-mi and Choi Mi-kyung, who served as judges, remarked, “We were amazed by the passion to discover various problems and propose solutions based on big data,” and promised to “do our best to ensure that the proposed policies are reflected.”
Choi Kyung-min, Chairperson of the Seongnam City Youth Happiness Council, expressed, “It was a meaningful contest where youth could think together about local issues. I want to see the proposed policies realized.” Jin Mi-seok, CEO of the Seongnam Youth Foundation, which managed the contest, said, “This contest based on big data utilization is very meaningful. Evidence-based policy formulation and implementation are important in the policy field, and it is encouraging that youth themselves conducted problem discovery and policy formulation based on big data.”
Meanwhile, data analysis and visualization for the contest were handled by DataDriven, an educational data analysis startup established in 2018. DataDriven CEO Go Dong-wan commented, “The process of combining the provided big data with other data to produce results was amazing. It felt like meeting future data scientists,” he said in his judging remarks.
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