Great book written by Kristi Shalla and Sung Jin Park on how Seoul transformed itself into a global Smart City reference exporting its model around the world.
🌆Seoul is one of the Smart City pionners with more than 20 years since the South-Korean concept “u-Cities” (ubiquitous cities) was coined. Based on the country’s predisposition to new technologies and the need to address the saturation of the metropolis of Seoul, with a population of 23 million, Seoul embarked on a journey to re-invent itself. The Korean government has implemented a strong policy, promoting measures favorable to innovation and integration of technologies like IT, sensors, data networking, automation of logistics flows, etc.
It all started small with technological proof of concepts and pilots then the creation of “showcase” cities, consistent with Korea’s tech reputation (best Internet and 5G penetration rate in the world).These initiatives stared with the multiplication of surveillance cameras, the installation of real-time information panels on public transport and the deployment of universal transport cards.They were first centered on the new towns of Dongtan and Songdo, before being introduced to Busan then Seoul. Seoul has been capable of attracting companies and structures of international rank, such as the Green Climate Fund https://www.greenclimate.fund/ installed in Songdo in 2012, or the biotech center of the same city.
Seoul now has the ambition to export its Smart City model abroad. Smart Cities are one of the priority themes of Korea’s development aid policy (Vietnam, Kenya), and Seoul hosts multiple academic conferences and won the first city in the Metaverse – Citiverse – price at the Barcelona “World Smart City Expo” https://www.smartcityexpo.
đź”—Join our Seoul Smart City group on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/6730176/
đź“•Book available on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Seoul-Tale-Smart-Kristi-Shalla
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