Open government in Japan

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Global E-Participation Workshop
E-Participation in Japan
11 January 2022
Kenji Hiramoto Head of Data Strategy, Executive officer
Digital Agency, Government of Japan
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2. Digital strategy has 10 principles for a Digital society.
1. Transparency and Openness
2. Fairness and Ethics
3. Security and Safety
4. Continuity, Stability, Resilience
5. Resolution of Social Challenges
6. Adaptability and Agility
7. Inclusion and Diversity
8. Digital Ubiquity
9. Creation of New Value
10. Ongoing Breakthroughs
National E-Participation Policy and Strategy
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E-information
• Open data
• SNS
• Blog
E-consultation & E-decision-
making
• Open dialogue
• Collaboration
• Meetup

3. Digital innovation ideabox (Open dialogue service for citizens)
Phase1 2020-10-09 / 2021-10-11
Registered users 7,327
Ideas 7,911
Comments 37,985
Votes 68,874
Viewers 500,000
PV 2,500,000
Lessons learned in
E-Participation and Leaving No One Behind
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Face-to-face meetings between the minister and participants
Top management commitment is important for e-Participation.
• Service ideas for the digital society
• Requests for a new agency
• Solutions for the digital public services
• Barrier of the digital society
• Advice to the government strategy

4. Digital innovation ideabox
Lessons learned in
E-Participation and Leaving No One Behind
Sample of
the policy making process
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Gather and analyze the information.
Clarify of issues
Publish the materials.
Discussion on the Ideabox.
Feedback to the committee
Public consultation
(Open discussion)
Revise the strategy
Publish the strategy
Start Committees Data strategy(Beta) National Data strategy
2021-06
2020-12
2020-10
• Ideas
• Opinions
• Questions
• Votes

5. Working with the CivicTech communities
Our goal is to spread open government
initiatives to create a better society.
The Digital Agency recruits members or
appoints them as open data evangelists
from active areas.
The evangelists go to cities that want to
work on open government and advice.
Lessons learned in
E-Participation and Leaving No One Behind
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Active
CivicTech
communities
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Non Active Municipalities
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Community of
Evangelists
Digital Agency
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Active
members

6. Challenge
Challenge and Recommendation
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Recommendation
It would be good to share use cases from different countries on how they diversify
the participants.
Man Woman
4%
13%
21%
25%
19%
10%
4%
2% 2%
10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59
60-69 70-79 80-89 90-
Diversity is an essential issue for e-
Participation, so we used SNS services with
many users among young people and
women.