Goyang-si to Host Active Administration Best Practices Competition on the 20th of the Second Half of the Year

Online Public Review to Be Conducted on 'Sotong24' Starting from the 6th

Goyang Special City in Gyeonggi Province (Mayor Lee Dong-hwan) announced on the 9th that on the 20th, it will select outstanding public officials and excellent employees of affiliated public institutions who have demonstrated proactive administration for citizen happiness at the ‘2024 Second Half Goyang City Proactive Administration Best Practices Competition.’

A view of Goyang Special City Hall. Provided by Goyang Special City.

In this competition, not only public officials who actively promoted their work and achieved results but also best practices of proactive administration from affiliated public institutions will be selected, thereby expanding the scope of proactive administration.

Among the 42 proactive administration cases submitted by each department (38 by public officials, 4 by public institutions), 11 cases (9 by public officials, 2 by public institutions) that passed the preliminary screening advanced to the finals.

The outstanding cases by public officials advancing to the finals include ▲ Completion of supply of land for living countermeasures at KINTEX (Strategic Industry Division) ▲ Preventing solitary deaths with residents and creating a safe care village! (Wonsin-dong, Deogyang-gu) ▲ Resolving conflicts over Seoul’s avoidance facilities through proactive administration as a catalyst (Communication and Cooperation Officer) ▲ Solving delinquent debtor bank account seizures via KakaoTalk through a change in thinking! (Collection Division) ▲ Creative ideas generating hundreds of millions in non-tax revenue and urban branding at once! (Culture and Arts Division) ▲ Awakening the sleeping Haengjusanseong Fortress! (Tourism Division) ▲ Startup company in crisis with a 70% failure rate! Pioneering new paths through collaboration with a large shopping mall (Enterprise Support Division) ▲ Major transformation of the household waste processing system: budget DOWN↓, processing volume UP↑ (Resource Circulation Division) ▲ Reducing livestock manure odor by utilizing discarded coffee grounds! Enhancing horticultural crop growth! Carbon reduction and resource circulation~!! (Agricultural Technology Center R&D Division).

The outstanding cases from public institutions include ▲ Improving citizen access and convenience to city-owned property through low-budget, citizen-experienced projects (Goyang Urban Management Corporation) ▲ Automatically completing contract documents for private contracts using Excel! Cutting contract administrative work by 50%, increasing public satisfaction! (Goyang City Youth Foundation).

For the outstanding cases by public officials, the final selection of one grand prize, two excellence awards, and three merit awards will be made by combining the results of the preliminary online public evaluation (20%) and the final presentation evaluation (80%). For the outstanding cases from public institutions, one grand prize and one excellence award will be selected based on the final presentation evaluation (100%).

The preliminary online public evaluation is being conducted from the 6th to the 12th on the ‘Sotong24 (formerly On National Communication)’ website (membership registration or SNS simple login required) in the public evaluation section.

Meanwhile, the city holds proactive administration best practices competitions every year in the first and second halves to discover and award proactive administration best practices that Goyang Special City citizens can feel, and to spread a culture of proactive administration.

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