Jeonnam-Gwangju Accelerates Launch of KRW 455.7 Billion 'AX Demonstration Valley'
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The Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City announced it will move ahead with the AX Demonstration Valley project.
The project will run for 5 years from this year to 2030 with a total budget of KRW 455.7 billion, covering 48 tasks across 3 areas: services that citizens can feel, mobility and energy.
Jeonnam-Gwangju will begin 26 new tasks this year based on KRW 29.6 billion in national funding, and will push ahead with links between technology development, field demonstrations and commercialization.
The Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City announced it will move ahead with the 'AX Demonstration Valley project.' It said that, after building AI infrastructure such as the National AI Data Center, it will now focus on technology development and demonstration, using the region's industrial sectors and urban spaces as sites for development and testing.
The project marks the second-stage expansion of a first-stage initiative centered on building computing infrastructure. The second stage will cover technology development, field demonstrations and commercialization, and the AI technologies developed will be applied to local industries and citizens' daily lives.
The project will run for 5 years, from this year to 2030, with a total budget of KRW 455.7 billion. The Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City will carry out 48 tasks across 3 areas: services that citizens can feel, mobility and energy.
The preliminary procedures before the project launch have also been completed. Jeonnam-Gwangju secured national government funding last year, obtained exemption from the preliminary feasibility study last year, and completed the Ministry of Science and ICT and Korea Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning (KISTEP) review of the project's appropriateness this June.
Jeonnam-Gwangju will launch the project this year based on this year's KRW 29.6 billion in national funding. This year, it will begin 26 new tasks.
The plan begins with the development of everyday services that citizens can feel and with verification in urban spaces. In the citizen-facing area, the project will develop an AI-based direct participation democracy platform and everyday services such as senior mind care. It will also apply AI in areas including citizen participation, welfare and media, and it includes plans to verify effectiveness and usability in actual urban spaces.
This vision will expand into demonstration projects linked to the region's flagship industries. In the mobility sector, the project will build on the automotive and mobility industrial base to move into use on actual roads and industrial sites. It will also promote development and demonstration of core AX technologies and platforms, including autonomous driving.
In the energy sector, the project will focus on distributed power grids, management of distributed energy demand and supply, and prevention of fires at energy storage systems (ESS). To this end, it will develop AI-based technologies to improve energy operation efficiency and safety, and plans to verify their performance in local energy infrastructure.
To ensure that the results of demonstrations in each area lead to commercialization and market entry, the city will establish a support system. Jeonnam-Gwangju will work to build a support system linking demonstration outcomes in each field to commercialization and market expansion.
It has also set a policy to support companies and research institutions in linking technology development, field demonstrations and commercialization. To this end, it will also promote a policy of connecting national and regional high-performance computing resources, including GPU and servers.
There are 26 new tasks this year in total, broken down into 8 designated open calls, 13 item-designated tasks and 5 open calls. The deadline for the call process is the 30th, and the application period runs from the 14th to 3 p.m. on the 30th. Applications will be accepted through the Integrated Research Support System (IRIS).
Son Doo-young, head of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Bureau of the Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City, said the AX Demonstration Valley is a project to verify AI technologies in the field and link them to commercialization, centered on Jeonnam-Gwangju's strategic industries and urban spaces. He added that the project aims to promote corporate innovation, drive the AX transition of local industries and create results that citizens can feel, ultimately fostering Jeonnam-Gwangju as a hub for AX demonstration and commercialization.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406360
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