[open-government] Open data movement in Japan

[kawashima-hiroichi at pref.saga.lg.jp]

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Hi,

This is Hiroichi Kawashima from OKF Japan group. Let me follow up Tomo's message on Open Data Portal on March 6.

Thanks to Andrew, Daniel, Rufus and all whom we met in January 2012, and having learned various lessons from EU countries and US, we have been successful in promoting the agenda of Open Government Data in Japan. Eventually, the Cabinet Secretariat (CAS) issued the Open Data Strategy, which adopted the principle of "Open by Default" and prioritized on the economic aspect of the Open Government Data on July 4th, 2012. Currently, three government committees are discussing issues for implementation under the auspices of CAS, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIAC), and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industries (METI), 

In collaboration with MIAC and METI, the CAS convened committee is formulating a road map and an implementation guideline for the government officials. These roadmap and guideline are to be announced by the end of March this year. The issues that are being discussed in the committee include legal constraints, machine readability, data catalogue, a mechanism to expand the scope of opened data, awareness building and evaluation. 

I wish to update the open data movement in Japan after the government's announcement of the roadmap and the guideline. Please keep your eyes on the movement in Japan.

PS. As for the OpenSpending activities, we have launched Where Does My Money Go sites for four cities, and the number of the participating cities is increasing. Pelase see the site for Yokohama: http://spending.jp/.  Fortunately, our WDMMG activity is awarded as the Excellent Application and as the Project for Smarter City by the Linked Open Data Challenge 2012 today!
 
Best regards,

Hiroichi
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Hiroichi Kawashima, Ph.D.
   Founding member, OKF Japan group
   CEO, the Institute for Public-Sector Innovation
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