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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 1 – 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 7 different forms
• Data Visualization: This shows public, private, and personal data in 21 different ways such as a word
cloud, parallel coordinate, tree map, among others, and can be shared with others
• Catalog 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 for public data that have not been shared
• My Plaza: This manages the authorization key for Open API and shows “My Visual Data”, “My
Favorite Data”, etc.
• Open Data of Districts: Shows data categorized according to its relevant district

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