The WeGO Secretariat is at the 2024 Smart City Summit & Expo (SCSE)!
Taipei, March 21, 2024 – The WeGO Secretariat attended the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 SCSE in Taipei on 19th March 2024 together with approximately 500 foreign guests, including Mayors and Deputy Mayors, from 112 cities in 46 countries.
The WeGO Secretariat also partnered with its member, the Seoul Digital Foundation (SDF), to promote Seoul Smart Life Week and Seoul Smart City Prize at the Seoul Pavilion to international visitors in the Nangang Exhibition Center 2, the venue of the 2024 SCSE.
Throughout 19th and 20th March 2024, the WeGO Secretariat met various local governments during the event, including the Taichung City Government, Taoyuan City Government, Tainan City Government, Taipei City Government, Chiayi City Government, New Taipei City Government, Yunlin County Government, and Sapporo City Government. Other than the local governments, the WeGO Secretariat also successfully met with Acer Group, the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Association, and Turkey’s Ministry of Environment, Urbanization, and Climate Change.
While meeting the entities highlighted above, the WeGO Secretariat not only successfully promoted the Seoul Smart City Prize, but also discussed smart city collaboration including the WeGO memberships. It was great to learn that some entities are already in the stage of preparing the application submission for the Seoul Smart City Prize!
The WeGO Secretariat will continue its mission in Kaohsiung together with Ms. Jung Sook Park, the Secretary General of WeGO. Stay tuned for more interesting updates of WeGO in Kaohsiung!
About WeGO
The World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization (WeGO), is a membership-based international association of local governments, smart tech solution providers, and institutions committed to the transformation of cities into smart sustainable cities through facilitating public-private partnerships (PPP). WeGO was founded by 50 member cities in 2010 as the World e-Governments Organization, hence our acronym. In response to the evolving concept of smart cities, WeGO expanded its vision and mandate at the 7th General Assembly (2017) and its name to the World Smart Sustainable Cities Organization. WeGO’s Secretariat is based in Seoul, Korea, and has regional offices in East Asia (Chengdu, China), the Mediterranean (Beyoglu, Turkey), Africa (Abuja, Nigeria), Middle East & North Africa (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates), Latin America (Cuenca, Ecuador), and Central Asia (Almaty, Kazakhstan). As the leading platform on smart city development, WeGO’s mission is to share knowledge and good practices in e-Governance; strengthen administrative efficiency and transparency; advance digital capacity; facilitate civic involvement; bridge the digital divide and inequality; and promote cooperation solidarity among cities and local governments around the world.
WeGO serves for its members as their international platform to improve the quality of life, innovate in the delivery of public services, and strengthen regional competitiveness.
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