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  • Japan: Minister lädt zum Angriff auf Zentralregister

    Soll Datenschutzbedenken gegen japanische Melderegister-Abfragen zerstreuen | "Bitte geben Sie sich große Mühe, einzubrechen"
  • Japan: Ministry: E-govt can cut 6,000 bureaucrats

    The Public Management Ministry said Friday it estimated that it would be possible to cut 6,000 central government bureaucrats off the payrolls, saving about 2 billion yen a year, as the result of a project to establish an e-government.

    The cuts would be made possible by an integrated system that manages the personnel affairs and salaries of central bureaucrats, which will be introduced by the end of fiscal 2007, the ministry said.

  • Japan: Okayama tries out "e-government"

    The Okayama Municipal Government launched an "e-government" trial service Thursday that allows residents to apply for and receive official forms via the Internet.
  • Japan: Panel urges medical records be digitized

    A government panel has recommended that medical records be digitized so patients can be treated at medical facilities across the nation, and that key government administrative services be available around-the-clock online.

    The panel's outline for new strategies to make better use of information technology also advocates the development of a "smart grid" electricity network and greater use of IT to make homes and offices more eco-friendly.

  • Japan: RFID-Großversuch in Tokio

    Schneller zum richtigen Club finden

    Anfang Dezember begann in Tokios Geschäfts- und Vergnügungsviertel Ginza ein RFID-Großversuch. Rund 10.000 verteilte RFID-Tags werden im Zusammenspiel mit einem Internet-Server, einer WLAN-/Bluetooth-Infrastruktur und speziellen Lesegeräten Informationen zu Orten mehrsprachig verfügbar machen, berichtet die Computerworld.

  • Japan: Schulkinder an die elektronische Leine

    Eine japanische Stadt will Pionierrolle spielen

    Total Information Awareness hieß ein Programm, für das die Darpa, die Forschungsbehörde des Pentagon, verschiedene Projekte entwickeln wollte. Das Programm ging dem Kongress aber zu weit und er drehte für viele der geplanten Projekte den Geldhahn zu (Kongress streicht Gelder für Pentagon-Überwachungsprojekt). Der Titel des Programms aber scheint für die Fortentwicklung und Umsetzung der Überwachungstechnologie weiterhin maßgeblich zu sein (Die überwachte Stadt). Eine japanische Gemeinde will nun weltweit als Pionier Premiere feiern und alle Schulkinder mit GPS lokalisieren.

  • Japan: Wimax-Netz fürs ganze Land

    Spätestens Ende 2006 will ein neuer Service-Provider in Japan mit einem kombinierten WLAN/Wimax-Funknetz an den Start gehen, das in seiner endgültigen Ausbaustufe landesweit verfügbar sein soll. Innerhalb eines Jahres werden rund 80 Prozent der Bevölkerung aus der Luft mit Datendiensten versorgt werden können, kündigte der Tokioter Carrier Heisei Denden an. Betrieben wird die Infrastruktur von Japan Wireless, einer Tochtergesellschaft des Carriers, sowie dem Softwareanbieter Dream Technologies. Ein Name für den Service sowie Preismodelle stehen noch nicht fest.
  • Japan's green government cloud

    Speaking at FutureGov’s last Government Cloud Forum in Singapore, Hideaki Sugiura, Director, IT Project Office, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), shared several cloud computing projects which the Japanese government has initiated.

    The Kasumigaseki Cloud integrated the data centres of different public sector ministries, reducing excess resources and maintenance of individual systems. METI developed a web site for its national ‘Eco-Points Programme’ in three short weeks by using cloud computing technology.

  • Japan's Itochu to bring AI bus optimization to Taiwan smart city

    Trading house prepares pilot programs, angling for slice of government investment

    Japanese trading house Itochu is joining a smart city project in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan, trialing AI systems for transportation and energy data management with an eye toward winning bigger business.

    Itochu was the sole contract winner among bids on a smart city project in the Shalun area being developed by the Tainan government and others. The early-stage contract is worth 10.8 million New Taiwan dollars ($332,000).

  • Japan's Sumitomo to supply power for its Vietnam smart city

    Solar and biomass plants at trading house's nearby industrial park to be tapped

    Japanese trading house Sumitomo Corp. will make its smart city currently under development in Hanoi partially self-sufficient, tapping solar and biomass power generation facilities in a nearby industrial park to cover 30% to 40% of the city and industrial park's electricity.

  • Japan’s digital leap forward — and about time too

    Within a zippy 24 hours of becoming prime minister this month, Yoshihide Suga had not only created the post of Japan’s minister for digital transformation but had also ordered its new holder to rush off and draw up a blueprint for the country’s first digital agency.

    Asked about the Herculean labour before him, Takuya Hirai — most recently in the news for browsing crocodile videos on his tablet during a parliamentary hearing — looked suitably hassled. “We are being asked to move at a speed never before seen in Kasumigaseki,” he told reporters, referring to the bureaucratic heart of Tokyo and a district rarely singled out for its pace.

  • Japan’s NTT, NEC to form a ‘5G alliance’

    NTT Corp. and NEC Corp. officially announced Thursday a capital and business partnership for the purpose of jointly developing fifth-generation large-capacity, ultrahigh-speed mobile communications services, or 5G.

    NTT will acquire a 4.8% stake in NEC for ¥64.4 billion. This alliance will allow the companies to catch up in the 5G market where foreign companies have taken a great lead.

    NEC will allocate new shares to NTT in July and transfer a portion of its own shares to the company. By doing so, NTT will become the third-largest shareholder of NEC.

  • Japan’s Smart City Initiatives Will Play Key Role In Its Digitization And Economic Revival

    For a country that has traditionally been attached to paper bureaucracy, Japan is finding Covid-19 is highlighting the importance of digitization to radically transform and modernize public services, from education to health, in order to adapt to the changed circumstances the pandemic has wrought.

    Despite a global reputation for impressive technological progress, Japan’s public sector – and a good portion of its private sector – has been slow to embrace the digital era, even as the country’s citizens become keenly aware of the need for the rollout of extensive digital policies.

  • Japanese city deploys e-govt

    Kyotango City has deployed an e-Government network solution to enable sophisticated information services for its 66,000 citizens.

    Kyotango City is a new Japan municipality created by the merger of six Kyoto prefecture towns. A secure, high-capacity multiservice optical backbone network from Nortel Networks now connects the city halls in each of the six original towns – Mineyama, Omiya, Amino, Tango, Yae and Kumihama – to create a 'community intranet'.

  • Japanese city Nōgata launches smart mobility proof-of-concept

    SkedGo is working with mobility platform Shotl on the project, which aims to bring demand-responsive transport and mobility-as-a-service to Nōgata in the Fukuoka prefecture.

    Mobility technology provider SkedGo is launching a proof-of-concept demand-responsive transport (DRT) and mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) project in the Japanese city of Nōgata in the Fukuoka prefecture.

  • Japanese firm creates blockchain-based e-voting protocol

    This project is a part of Tsukuba’s “smart city” initiative

    Layer X, a blockchain startup based in Japan, has announced that it is working on an electronic voting system based on a blockchain protocol as part of an overall smart city initiative for Tsukuba City.

    The company has explained that the new system will satisfy the technical needs of electronic voting. This includes avoiding instances of double voting, accurately storing all voting content, ensuring voter confidentiality and managing operation records.

  • Japanese Firm Nippon Koei to test self-driving cars in Smart City near Hanoi, Vietnam

    Japanese engineering consulting firm Nippon Koei will start an experiment of automated vehicles in Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.

    The experiment will take place at a large-scale redevelopment area in suburban Hanoi, in collaboration with a subsidiary of Ecopark Group, a major real estate developer in Vietnam and a local tech company which is engaged in the development of self-driving cars. The companies aim to improve access to the center of the city and to participate in the smart city development. The experiment is scheduled to end on December 14th, with an aim of launching a commercial service by the end of 2023.

  • Japanese Prefecture implements cloud-based disaster management system

    The Shizuoka Prefecture, a region located on the eastern coast of Honshu island, has implemented a cloud-based disaster management system in an effort to prevent the loss of key data infrastructures during natural disasters.

    Keisuke Uchiyama, an Official from the Shizuoka Prefecture, said that the system was implemented with a budget of about JPY 200 million (USD 2.6 million), and is currently hosted on Salesforce.com’s servers overseas in the U.S. and will go live when an official disaster warning is issued by the Japanese Government.

  • Japanese University deploys cloud to empower business continuity plan

    Kyoto University in Japan, on January 10, announced its ICT progress on virtualising 128 servers and building an on-campus private cloud system to strengthen its business continuity plan capabilities for the university’s all-purpose server system and optimisation of ICT investment.

    In partnership with Fujitsu, the new on-campus cloud system enables key services on the university’s homepage and other servers even during disasters or blackouts in the Kansai region.

  • Japanische Behörden setzen auf offene Standards

    ODF-Allianz: "Japan wird zum Vorbild für die Welt"

    In der japanischen Verwaltung muss künftig Software bevorzugt werden, die sich an offene Standards wie das Dokumentenformat ODF (Open Document Format) hält. Dies hat das japanische Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Handel und Industrie kürzlich entschieden. Bislang wurde bei Ausschreibungen jene Software bevorzugt, die sich an marktdominierenden Produkten wie etwa Microsoft Office orientiert. In Zukunft muss ein Programm mit allen internationalen, offenen Dateiformaten zu Recht kommen.

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