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United for Smart Sustainable Cities
Enhancing Innovation and Participation
2 The project
2.1 Vision and content
SMG aims to increase its accountability and transparency and realize participatory governance by developing and
disclosing data relevant to citizens’ lives through the Seoul Open Data Plaza. This development is in line with the
city’s policy vision of a “Citizen-centred Seoul: where citizens are happy” and its strategy of promoting
communication with citizens in order to improve their right to know. SMG has established a legal and systematic
base for open data and since 2012, it has been disclosing useful data about Seoul through the portal.
Figure 7 – Some of the key menu items of the Seoul Open Data Plaza and their descriptions
Description of the key menu Items:
Open data: The data collected from SMG and related agencies are processed into seven different forms.
Data visualization: This shows public, private and personal data in 21 different ways such as a word
cloud, parallel coordinate and tree map, among others, and can be shared with others.
Catalogue service: This provides lists of data services from SMG, other organizations, districts and
citizens.
Use case: This shares apps, websites and visualized content created by citizens using the data from the
Seoul Open Data Plaza.
Data request: Citizens can request public data that has not been shared.
My plaza: This manages the authorization key for Open API and shows “My Visual Data”, “My Favourite
Data”, etc.
Open data of districts: This shows data categorized according to its relevant district.
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