IT Strategy in Japan

Kenji Hiramoto Executive Advisor to the Government CIO, Japan April, 2013

2011-3-11 Great East Japan Earthquake

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The earthquake was a pivotal turning point for Japan.

Yahoo! JAPANEast Japan Earthquake Picture Project

2011-3-11 Great East Japan Earthquake

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Everyone thought,“We must do something.”“We can do something.”

Yahoo! JAPANEast Japan Earthquake Picture Project

New Social Structure for the future.

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Government NPO

Civic Hacker

Society

Small Government +Empowerment area

Industry

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IT Strategy

Declaration to be the World's Most Advanced IT Nation

Eliminating Gridlock and Rejuvenating Japan

Achieve an IT Nation on the cutting edge of the world by 2020

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The Society that Japan Should Seek to become

Create a society that encourages the creation of new and innovative industries and services and growth • open data and big data• agriculture• open innovation and new businesses

The world’s safest and most disaster-resilient society where people can live safely, with peace of mind, and comfort • healthy, longevity society• disaster-resilient society • Intelligent transportation system • work-life balance

Create a society with one-stop public services that anyone can access and use from anywhere at any time • Provide highly convenient electronic government services, • Reform national and local government administrative information systems

Technology Challenge

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Sensoring Technologies

Networks

Services

Intelligent Transportation System

Traffic Jams

Maintenances

Accidents

Driving Data

Traffic and road closure information

PredictedArrival time

Private films. Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Pioneer ITS Japan

Smooth driving

Reduce Accident

Speedy rescue & recovery

VICS Center

Driving dataData of Traffic jams, Maintenances and Accident

Driving data (Hard braking)Data of Accident

Driving data (Traffic history)Data of Maintenance(Closure)

Photo: MLIT, Toyota, Honda, ITS Japan 8

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Weather forecast“GO-U! Detector” show us the detail real-time information of rain.

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5km SituationAR モード (250m mesh)

Tokyo amesh

https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/id655469995?mt=8

X-band MP radar network

X-band radar

RadarSensor

Tokyo Metropolitan Government

MLIT

http://tokyo-ame.jwa.or.jp/

Go 　 U ！　 Detector

A decade agoNow

Avoid being caught in the heavy rain!!

豪雨： heavy rain

Earthquake early-warning system for Shinkansen Enable to slow down high- speed train“Shinkansen” Case in the earthquake in 2011: Hayate, Yamabiko

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Hayate25(245km/h)

Hayate28(unknown)

Yamabiko59(270km/h)

Hayate27(270km/h)

Yamabiko63(270km/h)

Max Yamabiko144(unknown)

Hayate26(270km/h)

Yamabiko142(238km/h)Hayate29

(270km/h)

Nasuno259(unknown)

Yamabiko63(270km/h)

Seismometer

Shinkansen

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DamageCivil Eng. Electricity

(Map & Photo: JR EAST)

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Street map Local government provides the data of streetlamps. NGY Night street advisor

Street lamp information (100,000) + Google map Navigation function.

Safety route!

Future plan

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Key TechnologiesInteroperability Framework & Standards

• Vocabulary set• Data standards

Simple Government

Government as a platform

THANK YOU

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