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Figure 9: Core areas of focus for Smart City Daegu

It's about urban data policy.
"Establishing policies for city data can be a difficult problem. Our city had many concerns about
what data to collect, how to store, process, and how to use it for decision making. We started
by creating a data hub and collecting data related to traffic, safety, and city facilities. Afterwards,
we challenged ourselves to become a data-based administration by, for example, pursuing the
optimization of police patrol points and bus routes. We expect to use data convergence analysis
to solve other urban problems in the future. It can be said that it is essential to recognize the
importance of urban data and establish a clear direction for the policy."
Daegu Smart City Division Director, Hwang Yoon-Keun

5 Daegu - KPI project overview

5.1 Background

In 2021, the city of Daegu partnered with ITU to implement the U4SSC KPIs for SSC. The
implementation of these U4SSC KPIs in Daegu aimed to quantify the efficacy of the city’s smartness
and sustainability strategies, while also measuring Daegu’s progress in attaining the targets
stipulated in the Sustainable Development Goals. Feedback from this project will enable Daegu to
assess its performance vis-à-vis its smart sustainable city vision to facilitate better decision making,
evaluate the success of new initiatives and set the basis for the refinement of Daegu’s Smart City
Plan.

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