The document outlines measures taken by the Japanese government to address conflicting issues of preventing the spread of COVID-19 while maintaining economic and social activities. It discusses actions to prevent spread such as activity guides, monitoring infections and medical facilities, tracking close contacts, and changing social activities. It also outlines actions to support economic and social activities, including subsidies for citizens and businesses, information systems about COVID-19, and support program information channels. The government engaged citizens for ideas and established an anti-COVID tech team to help change mindsets and transition to digital solutions.

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Measures for Covid-19 by Japanese Government
2020-11-01 Kenji Hiramoto

2. We faced conflicting issues.
 Actions to prevent the spread of infection.
 Actions to keep economic and social activities.
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Stay home! Go to Eat!
To prevent the spread of infection.
To keep economic and social activities.
To prevent the spread of infection.
To keep economic and social activities.

3. Actions to prevent the spread of infection
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Activity guide
Status about
infections and
medical
facilities
Parson to
Parson
(CCCOA)
Human
density at
stations and
towns
Parson to
facility
(QR code)
Facility check
list
Parson to shop
and restaurant
(ePayment)
Physical action
Change the social activity
Find the parson who have close contacts
Hospital
PCR Test

4. Actions to prevent the spread of infection
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Activity guide
Status about
infections and
medical
facilities
Parson to
Parson
(CCCOA)
Human
density at
stations and
towns
Parson to
facility
(QR code)
Facility check
list
Parson to shop
and restaurant
(ePayment)
Physical action
Change the social activity
Find the parson who have close contacts
Hospital
PCR Test

5. Actions to prevent the spread of infection
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Activity guide
Status about
infections and
medical
facilities
Parson to
Parson
(CCCOA)
Human
density at
stations and
towns
Parson to
facility
(QR code)
Facility check
list
Parson to shop
and restaurant
(ePayment)
Physical action
Change the social activity
Find the parson who have close contacts
Hospital
PCR Test

6. Actions to prevent the spread of infection
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Activity guide
Status about
infections and
medical
facilities
Parson to
Parson
(CCCOA)
Human
density at
stations and
towns
Parson to
facility
(QR code)
Facility check
list
Parson to shop
and restaurant
(ePayment)
Physical action
Find the parson who have close contacts
Hospital
PCR Test
Change the social activity
Change the social activity
Facility
(Shop and Restaurant) Guest
email
Notification
(If an infected person
dropped in the facility )
Scan
Tracing system
Osaka
Prefecture

7. Actions
to keep economic and social activities.
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Subsidy
(Direct)
• Citizens
• Enterprises
Information
About Covid19
• Private sector
• Public sector
Subsidy
(Indirect)
• Go to Travel
• Go to EAT
Subsidy systems
Support program
information
systems
Covid19
portal site
Subsidy systems

8. Channels of support program information
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Ministries and Prefecture
Open data
City, Town and Village
Open data
Private sectors
Open data
Data standards
Various services
Services from Administrations
Services from Private sectors

9. Other Action
 VS COVID-19 IdeaBox
 Government – Citizens dialogue system
 Citizens write and discuss their opinions on the web.
• Over 250 participants and 137 ideas.
 Most popular idea was about data standardization.
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Web site Opinion and comments page
Opinions Comments Votes
https://covid19ideabox.code4japan.org/

10. Actions to change our society
 Covid19 changed our mind set.
Old culture
• Paper
• Stamp
• Fax
• Working time office time
• Over spec security / Privacy protection
New style
• Telework
• Open source
• Job
• Civic Tech
• Digital support
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11. Lesson Learned
 Data standards and Base registries are essential
for the digital society
 Administrations should foster the trust with the
civictech on a regular basis.
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Quick start
Agile development

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Anti COVID-19 Tech. Team