“Smart City Gumi” Idea Contest Open Until March 20

Opening a Smart City with Citizens' Ideas
Four Categories: Transportation, Energy, Environment, and Urban Management
Discovering Feasible Smart Services
Total Prize Money of 2.7 Million Won, Including 1 Million Won for the Grand Prize
Linking with Policies and Public Contest Projects

Gumi City in North Gyeongsang Province announced on the 24th that it will hold the “Smart City Gumi” Idea Contest until March 20 to turn urban issues that citizens directly experience into policy.

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The contest covers four categories: transportation, energy and environment, urban convenience, and urban management (data utilization). Anyone can participate and propose creative and feasible smart service ideas that reflect the characteristics of the local community.

The submitted ideas will be comprehensively evaluated based on creativity, expected impact, public interest, feasibility, and sustainability. After verification by a judging committee composed mainly of external experts, the final results will be announced in April.

For the selected ideas, a total of 2.7 million won in prize money and certificates will be awarded: 1 million won for one grand prize winner, 700,000 won for one excellence award winner, and 500,000 won each for two encouragement award winners. To help revitalize the local economy, all prize money will be paid in Gumi Love Gift Certificates.

Gumi City will work closely with relevant departments to ensure that outstanding ideas can be developed into policies and commercial projects, and plans to link them with future smart city-related public contest projects.

Mayor Kim Jangho of Gumi stated, “A smart city is completed not by technology, but by policies that change citizens’ lives,” adding, “I hope this contest will serve as an opportunity for citizens to participate as the main actors in policy design, and we will actively support the proposed ideas so that they can lead to real change.”