Pyeongtaek City Holds Awards Ceremony for 'Innovation and Collaboration Best Practices Competition'

Innovation Sector Anjung Library 'Housewife Reboot Project' Grand Prize
Collaboration Sector Water Facilities and 'Alternative Water Resource Development' Grand Prize

On the 7th, Pyeongtaek City in Gyeonggi Province held an awards ceremony for the '2023 Pyeongtaek City Innovation and Collaboration Best Practices Competition' at the city hall's comprehensive situation room.

The 'Innovation and Collaboration Best Practices Competition' is an event that discovers and awards outstanding administrative innovation cases that citizens can experience in their daily lives across all areas of city administration throughout the year. The city selected six cases each in innovation and collaboration (1 grand prize, 2 excellence awards, 3 encouragement awards) through written and online evaluations and a final competition.

Jeong Jang-seon, Mayor of Pyeongtaek, is taking a commemorative photo with the winners in the innovation category at the awards ceremony of the '2023 Innovation Collaboration Competition' held on the 7th.
[Photo by Pyeongtaek City]

In the innovation category, Anjung Library's "Finding a Path in the Library, Housewives' Reboot Project Restart" won the grand prize. It was highly evaluated as a policy that supports employment as instructors by training picture book instructors for housewives with career interruptions and fosters human resources in the western region.

In the collaboration category, the Water Facilities Division of the Water and Sewerage Office received the grand prize for the case of "Development of Alternative Water Resources to Resolve Metropolitan Water Shortage," a proactive self-help measure established through public-private cooperation among Pyeongtaek City, Korea Western Power, and Samsung Electronics to address the metropolitan area's water shortage crisis.

Additionally, cases such as ▲Creation of a National Advanced Strategic Industry Specialized Complex ▲Implementation of Special Measures for Wide-area Transportation in the Godeok Internationalization Planning District ▲Creation of Barrier-free Forest Trails ▲Computerization of Local Tax Audits were also selected as outstanding cases.

Jung Jang-seon, Mayor of Pyeongtaek City, urged, "I ask all public officials to continue working together to proactively respond to various administrative demands in the future."