How METI advanced digitalizing administration in 2019. It did not only introduce digital technologies but also change the organization.

1. Digital Transformation of METI and its beyond

2. 1
Economic policies
Industrial policies
Trade policies
Commerce and
Information
Bureau
Digital Government
Data policies
IT Industry
Electronics Industry

3. 2
Challenges for Digital Government
• Still Paper-based administrations
• No rules for data management
• Silos of Data
• Scarce of Analyzing capability
PDF, Word, Excel, CSV…
Different data name,
value…
Scarce of capacity in
• Statistics
• Econometrics
• AI utilization
Div.A’s
Data
Div.B’s
Data
No innovations in 20 years!

4. 3
METI DX office
3.Change society
• Digitalize Gov. Services
• Create Digital Infrastructure
• Utilize Data effectively
Established in Jul. 2018
1.Change Organization
• Reinforce IT Capabilities
• Nurture user-centric mindsets
2.Change methods
• Design thinking
• Agile IT development
• Data analytics

5. 1.Change Organization
4

6. 5
Hire IT professionals
Use Professional
Recruiting Site
Hire Project Managers
from IT companies
Ex. NTT Data, Rakuten,
Oracle, AI venture etc.

7. 6
Education for officers
Youtube course
Workshop
• Young officers learn
design thinking & data
utilization
• Peer learning through
workshop
• 12 sessions for
10minutes each
• Watch anytime,
anywhere
*Now planning executive education about Digital Transformation

8. 7
2.Change Methods

9. 8
Introduction of data analytics tools
RESAS
Tableau
• Visualize data related with
regional economy
• Can get insights in policy
making for local economies
• Visualize any data easily
and get insights
• Create an users group and
promote peer learning

10. 9
Collaboration with new players
Data standardization
with a startup
Crowd sourcing
for prototyping
Agile development
with IT startups
Get insights from
Civic Tech groups

11. 10
3.Change Society

12. Focus on digital services for businesses
Service
for SMEs
Deliver our services to all customers
Maximize the benefit of services based on data
Reduce procedural costs
Digital Platform based on
Corporate Number
by METI

13. 12
Digital Platform of public services
for Businesses
• Digitalize public services for corporates
• Standardize Data sets and APIs for Analytics and
Automation
• Connect private services with public services by open
APIs
Authentication Applications Data Exchange Open Data
From Feb. 2019
(Expand to other
ministries from
FY2020)
From Oct. 2019
(Expand to other
ministries from
FY2020)
From FY2020 From Jan. 2017
gBiz
Connect
gBiz
Info

14. 13
gBiz ID : Federated Authentication
Service for Businesses
• Authentication system of government services for
businesses using 2FA
• Connect several government systems through APIs like
Google ID
• Expand its usage from METI to other ministries
Authenticate with 1ID/Pass
Applica
tion A
Applica
tion B
Applica
tion C

15. jGrants : Grants application system
14
• Digitalize and standardize all the processes of grants
application for the better UX
• Expand its usage to other ministries and local govs

16. 15
gBiz Info : Open data search site based
on Corporate ID number
• Anyone can search for corporate information based on
4million ID numbers
• It has Open APIs for corporates to utilize the database for
their business

17. 16
• Enhance “semantic level” interoperability for various data
by creating a reference dictionary of terms
• It serves as an infrastructure to promote streamlined use of
data among multi-stakeholders in the society
IMI (Infrastructure for Multilayer Interoperability) ~Semantic Interoperability~
Core
Vocabulary
Specific Domain
Vocabulary
Used in each domain.
Eg) number of beds, Schedule.
Shelt
er
Locatio
n
Hospita
l
Statio
n
Disaster
Restoratio
n Cost
Cross Domain
Vocabulary
Used among several domains
Eg) hospital, station, shelter.
Core Vocabulary
Widely used in any domain.
Eg) people, object, place, date.
Geographical
Space
/Facilities
Transportatio
n
Disaster
Prevention
Finance
Domain-
specific
Vocabularies
Cross Domain
Vocabulary
Important
for Society 5.0

18. 17
Mirasapo Plus : SME support portal
• A Portal of Electronic applications and Search for SME
supports
• Contents-based matching of support menus to SMEs
• Open from the beginning of FY2020

19. 18
Govtech Conference: Create an ecosystem for
government innovations
• Conference for Central and Local governments, Civic Tech, Startups
and IT companies to mingle with each other for a better digital
society
• Trigger collaborations and co-creations among multi-stakeholders

20. Disrupt Government
with Digital technologies
19
Co-create pubic digital services
with multi-stakeholders
Govtech