Lee Seung-ro, District Mayor, Wins Two Crowns in Resident Discovery and Application Categories for CEO Award
Seongbuk-gu, Seoul (Mayor Lee Seung-ro) won five awards in three categories?Best CEO Award, Best Policy Award, and Residents’ Autonomy Committee Award?at the ‘2024 Local Autonomy Awards’ ceremony.
The Local Autonomy Awards is an event co-hosted by the Local Government Association for Decentralization, Gwangmyeong City, and the Decentralization University. The ceremony held on the 11th at Gwangmyeong IBEX Studio recognized excellent policy cases and local talents who contributed to spreading consensus on the resident-centered era of decentralization and local autonomy development.
Among 65 institutions, individuals, and organizations that participated in the contest, Seongbuk-gu achieved the remarkable feat of winning five awards in three categories after passing the first document screening, the second resident judging panel, and on-site judging by over 200 award committee members on the 11th.
Seongbuk-gu, Seoul won five awards in three categories including the Best CEO Award, Best Policy Award, and Residents' Autonomy Committee Award at the '2024 Local Autonomy Awards' ceremony. Lee Seung-ro, Mayor of Seongbuk-gu (center), and Seongbuk-gu officials. Photo by Seongbuk-gu.
Mayor Lee Seung-ro of Seongbuk-gu, who won the Best CEO Award, was recognized for fostering a reading movement by selecting the book of the year with local residents through the operation of ‘One Book Seongbuk’ and for strengthening citizens’ capabilities and realizing village democracy by running the resident-led council ‘One Book Promotion Team.’
Mayor Lee also earned the honor of winning a bronze prize in the category of discovering the Best CEO Award, where residents directly select and recommend heads of organizations for local autonomy and regional development.
Additionally, the ‘Seongbuk-type Direct Democracy Citizen Autonomy Representative Platform, On-site Mayor’s Office Operation,’ selected as an excellent policy case, received the gold prize for the Best Policy Award. It was positively evaluated for expanding direct democracy and laying the foundation for resident autonomy by identifying civil complaints and policy agendas from the residents’ perspective.
In the Residents’ Autonomy Committee category, Seokgwan-dong Residents’ Autonomy Committee’s project ‘The Power of Seokgwan-dong! Shining through Resident Autonomy’ won the silver prize, and Anam-dong Residents’ Autonomy Committee’s ‘Resident Autonomy Class Visiting Schools’ won the bronze prize, achieving two consecutive years of double awards following last year.
Mayor Lee Seung-ro stated, “I usually define decentralization as a shorthand for citizen autonomy and local decentralization, and citizen autonomy is the core of decentralization. Going forward, we will continue to promote projects led by local residents and vigorously open the era of decentralization by further expanding grassroots democracy through the Residents’ Autonomy Committee, a practical neighborhood resident representative council.”
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