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businesses (including providing a testbed, overseas expansion), and trains software engineers
in these fields.
d. ICT Industry Team: This team assists companies related to the convergence of sports and
business and ICTs, drone technologies, laser technologies and 3-D printing, and trains ICT
engineers in these fields.
In 2018, to support smart city plans and projects, the Smart City Support Centre was established and
has been in operation to support the participation and collaboration of inhabitants and companies,
which is the core of the Daegu Smart City Project. The main purpose of this centre is to implement
the existing smart city best practices to:
• support the complete smart city cycle (planning, execution and monitoring);
• foster inhabitant participation; and
• gather local expertise and form a variety of networks.
In addition, since 2019, Daegu has been operating a living lab called the Urban Problem Discovering
Community for facilitating inhabitant participation. Within this living lab, inhabitants pinpoint the
city's problems and offer possible solutions. The lab had 151 participants in 2019 and 94 in 2020.
The Daegu Smart City Plan envisions the following:
a. Creation of a refined smart city model directed towards the integration of digital technologies,
the adoption of a secure Big Data management system, and the establishment of an index for
evaluating progress towards the smart city goals.
b. Driving sustainable growth through the generation of new business models and urban living
labs.
The Daegu Smart City Plan is premised on the theme of the “smart economy”. In keeping with this,
and in accordance with the city’s smart city goals, Daegu serves as a testbed for small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) working on new and disruptive technologies, and supports companies to grow
their business in the city. Daegu expects that its inhabitants will receive benefits from the smart
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city technology provided by the companies, as the growth and prosperity of these companies is
anticipated to foster job creation.
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