‘Gwangju-like integrated care’ government innovation king of kings finals

Solving people’s livelihoods and eliminating blind spots… Selected on the 14th of next month

Gwangju City announced on the 14th that its representative welfare policy, ‘Gwangju Daum Integrated Care’, was selected as an excellent case in the ‘Government Innovation King’ held by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security and advanced to the finals. ‘Gwangju Daum Integrated Care’ was recognized for its innovative achievements and was the only metropolitan local government to be selected as an excellent case in the ‘2024 Government Innovation King of Kings – Government that Solve Problems’ field.

Gwangju City has provided 26 types of ‘Gwangju Daum Integrated Care’ services since April of last year, and achieved the result of supporting about 16,000 people in just one year of project implementation. In particular, it was evaluated as an innovative model that changed the social care paradigm and won the International City Innovation Award from the Union of Local Governments (UCLG).

‘Government Innovation King’ is a competition in the field of innovation hosted by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security to discover and spread excellent innovation cases. Starting this year, excellent cases will be selected in three fields, including ▲ future-ready government ▲ problem-solving government ▲ digital government, and will be awarded to the finalists. It is carried out by selecting the ‘King of Kings’.

‘Gwangju Daum Integrated Care’ was not simply a project to establish a new care service, but was highly evaluated for contributing to solving people’s livelihood problems and eliminating administrative blind spots by innovating the delivery system from finding (application) care citizens to service support (connection). . In addition, the process of designing the project through cooperation between the public, private sector, government, and academia to solve problems caused by the selectiveness and application system of the existing care system also received attention. Gwangju City’s ‘Gwangju Daum Integrated Care’ was the only metropolitan government selected as an excellent case.

The Ministry of Public Administration and Security plans to select the final king of the kings through expert screening of the 15 best cases that advanced to the finals and through a public presentation review of the ‘2024 Government Innovation King of the Kings’ competition held at the Kimdaejung Convention Center in Gwangju on November 14.

Oksoo Son, Director of the Welfare and Health Department of Gwangju City, said, “Gwangju Daum Integrated Care has already established itself as Korea’s representative care policy, and many local governments across the country are benchmarking it.” He added, “We will continue to boldly challenge any change for citizens, providing care that leaves no one behind.” “We will create a city of Gwangju,” he said.

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