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Figure 8: Daegu Smart City strategies and envisioned outcomes

To realize Daegu’s Smart City Plan, a Smart City Division was launched as a task force in 2016 and
became an official city department under the Innovation Growth Bureau in 2017. The Smart City
Division consists of four teams with 22 staff members, including teams for planning, infrastructure,
software and the ICT industry, with duties listed below.

The importance of a dedicated organization, manpower, and the industry-university-institute
collaboration governance.
"Currently, many of the smart city projects are public-led. To promote public projects, a dedicated
organization and dedicated manpower are essential elements within local governments. And
industry-university-institute collaboration governance is also essential for inhabitant participation,
corporate participation and service discovery. Our city has assigned dedicated manpower to the
Smart City Division and has created a Smart City Support Centre with a local university (Gyeongbuk
National University). The city oversees policy functions and collaboration between departments
within city hall, and the Smart City Support Centre oversees working with inhabitants and
businesses. Therefore, it is necessary to have organization, manpower and governance in place to
move toward a smart city."

Daegu Smart City Division Director, Hwang Yoon-Keun

a. Planning Team: This team conducts smart city research and development, promotes smart city
business and applies smart city technology.

b. Infrastructure Team: This team supports and fosters the expansion of the smart city system,
building and utilizing infrastructure of Suseong Alpha City as a smart city testbed.

c. Software Team: This team assists companies related to software, artificial intelligence (AI),
virtual reality (VR) augmented reality (AR) / cloud-based services and other ICT convergence

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