Innovation Tag: Communication

“Madrid, Digital Capital” is a city-wide transformation model that redesigns how Madrid delivers services and makes decisions using real-time data and digital tools. It simplifies procedures, improves daily services and helps the city respond faster to citizens and businesses. It is innovative because it turns digital transformation into a single, measurable system for running government, not just isolated projects, and that is fully user and citizen centred and also environmental centred.

Many citizens face difficulties navigating government websites because information is often complex, overly technical, or gender biased. To address this challenge, Tesorería General de la República developed AInclusiva, an AI tool that scans institutional content to provide instant recommendations for clearer, more empathetic, and inclusive communication. This innovation automates the alignment of public data with official accessibility standards, creating a scalable model to ensure no one is…

Digital Transformation Co-Creation Platform enables national and local governments to co-create policies and services through knowledge sharing and mutual learning. In Japan, diverse knowledge and challenges exist across about 1,780 local governments but are not adequately shared due to hierarchical communication structures. Digital Agency has developed a co-creation ecosystem where government officers nationwide can engage in open, flat, and two-way communications as individuals.

Complex government documents may confuse citizens, making it difficult to access services such as pensions or benefits. This work engages GenAI to rewrite these texts in plain language, maintaining legal accuracy while increasing clarity. Focused on the Service Pages of Italy's National Institute of Social Security portal, which serves 45 million users, AI surpassed human experts in user preference, enabling the Institute to communicate inclusively and at scale.

Incheon City initiated a demonstration project utilizing AI technology to assist tourists and multicultural citizens in effectively communicating their symptoms to healthcare professionals. Mediark Inc. was chosen for this project through a public tender. The city supports the AI technology's development and demonstration costs, collaborating with Mediark Inc., the Incheon Medical Association, and the Pharmaceutical Association. Mediark Inc. introduced the SIMTOMI app in November 2023.

The Pasco Regional Government proposes free WiFi to enhance access to information and education in parks and squares, reducing digital divides. Customized home pages and user management aim to close regional digital gaps, fostering educational, professional, and commercial activities.

The Information Portal improves the process of obtaining current information on court proceedings by participants in cases conducted in courts.Through this system, trial attorneys, lawyers, citizens participating in proceedings can find out about the current status of their cases without having to contact the court directly.The latest functionality has changed the purpose of the system, which now serves as the official channel of communication in civil proceedings between the court and the party

Community Health Workers are a essential component of the health workforce who provide personalised directed health care in the comfort and safety of a patients home. This innovation addressed the administrative injustice and barriers experienced y health care workers which result in gross under utilization of the resource. The innovation automates arduous paper referral to a instant digital referral using Quick Response codes and existing tools in Office 365, all without leaving the bedside

In line with the Sustainable Development Goals 1 and to promote rational purchasing behaviour for welfare of consumers, the Government has developed a price monitoring and control application called “Mopri” with the aims to provide a single interactive platform for comparing retail prices of essential commodities across different outlets, to report any complaints on real time basis and provide information on regulated prices and policies.

The Seoul Outdoor Library was created to meet the needs of citizens for their healing and rest in a safe space since COVID-19. As a new approach where the concept of a library space is expanded from being inside a building to outdoors, a space is created to share culture with multiple generations by offering various services for citizens in collaboration with the local community. It is an innovative model where a library is shifted to a social place in which anyone could enjoy the library.