Daejeon Launches AI Innovation Strategy Committee, Sharpens AX Plans for Defense, Semiconductors
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Daejeon Metropolitan City has launched the "AI Innovation Strategy Committee," which will oversee AI policy.
The committee will discuss plans to advance AI innovation under the 9th elected administration and will cover the establishment of an AI master plan, performance evaluation, institutional improvements, and infrastructure expansion.
Daejeon is also pushing ahead with AI transformation (AX) for local strategic industries such as defense, semiconductors, bio, and space, as well as the enactment of an AI basic ordinance.
Daejeon Metropolitan City has launched the "AI Innovation Strategy Committee," a body that will oversee AI policy. The city has also begun pushing ahead with AI transformation (AX) for local strategic industries such as defense, semiconductors, bio, and space.
Daejeon Metropolitan City held the first meeting of the "Daejeon AI Innovation Strategy Committee" on the 10th in the city hall's conference room. At the first meeting, the city appointed committee members and discussed plans to advance the AI innovation strategy for the 9th elected administration.
The committee is co-chaired by Daejeon Metropolitan City Mayor Hur Tae-jeong and KAIST Vice President for Research Choi Seong-yul, and consists of 12 members, including experts from industry, academia, and research institutions as well as heads of Daejeon city offices and bureaus. Private-sector participants include SIA CEO Jeon Tae-gyun, Twini CEO Cheon Hong-seok, Panasia CEO Jeong Myeong-su, Hannam University professor Lee Eun-gu, KAIST professor Lee Yeong-ju, Chungnam National University professor Lim Seong-su, president of the Asian Society for Innovation and Technology, Go Yeong-ju, and ETRI Physical AI Research Lab director Yoo Won-pil.
The committee will operate as a framework for promoting AX in the region's strategic industries and will discuss the establishment of an AI master plan, performance evaluation, institutional improvements, and infrastructure expansion.
Daejeon will operate four subcommittees under the committee. The subcommittees will cover social affairs, administration, urban issues, safety, science, industry, education, talent, and ethics. The city also plans to form a working-level consultative body with participation from city offices and bureaus as well as outside experts. The working-level consultative body is intended to flesh out tasks by sector.
As key tasks, Daejeon proposed building a defense AX cluster, fostering an AI semiconductor hub, establishing a smart disaster and safety network, and advancing AI-based smart administrative innovation. It also plans to identify AI tasks in local industry and administrative sectors. The city plans to link the identified tasks with policy implementation.
Daejeon plans to strengthen its implementation system at the organizational level. Accordingly, it will centralize AI policy across city administration around the Grade 3 "AI Innovation Bureau." It also plans to hold briefing sessions to identify AI innovation tasks for each office and bureau. Through those sessions, the city intends to develop ways to apply AI by department.
Daejeon is also pushing to improve the institutional foundation for AI policy. The city plans to enact the "Daejeon Metropolitan City Ordinance on Artificial Intelligence" with the goal of promulgation in January next year. The ordinance is intended to provide a foundation for the sustained promotion of mid- to long-term AI policies and projects.
Hur Tae-jeong, Mayor of Daejeon Metropolitan City, said through the "AI Innovation Strategy Committee" that the city will set a medium- to long-term development direction and establish concrete implementation strategies, while actively reflecting expert suggestions in city administration. He also expressed his intent to drive the region's future strategic industries, including semiconductors, defense, bio, and space, to lead AX and make Daejeon a globally competitive AI-leading city.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
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