Drupal has a great potential to push forward openness in Japan. Help us to accelerate the power of open technology in Japanese government / enterprise area.

1. The New Meiji Restoration:
How Drupal is Helping Japan’s Government
Embrace Open Data
BADCAMP 2017

2. ANNAI Inc : Who we are
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 Founded in 2007
 HQ is in Kyoto
 Team of 6 people working remotely

3. We specialize in Drupal
Spreading the possibility of Drupal
● Dealing with huge amount of data
● Trying several decoupled pattern with Drupal as front-end UI
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4. * Meiji = Name of the era
How Drupal is Helping
Japan’s Government Embrace Open Data

5. 1868Before Meiji After Meiji

6. Samurai era = Beautiful cultures
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7. End of samurai era(183X-1867)...
● Highly strict (and structured) hierarchy
● “National isolation” was government policy
● Fear of Invasion
○ Industrial revolution made new market = export
○ Countries who ride this big wave explored new markets
7Matthew C. Perry

9. Meiji era = Modernization
● Revolutionizing everything
○ Governance
○ Law
○ Foreign policy
○ Old-fashined hierarchy
○ Local politics
○ Economy
○ Culture
○ Education
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10. Modern day digital world in Japan
● CMS situation is...
○ Local proprietary software
○ Wordpress
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Source : builtwith.com

11. Modern day digital world in Japan
● Enterprise companies and government situation is...
○ Static web
○ Highly strict accessibility regulation in public sector
○ Information disclosure is in progress, but not enough
○ Losing opportunity and engagement locally and globally
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12. Key for better future
● Open technology, openness
● Sharing opinions and ideas with you guys
● Showcasing best practices to stakeholders
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14. “Open Data” is gaining momentum
●Open Data disclosure became law in 2016
○ Earth quake disaster in 2011 was trigger
○ Local government must utilize Open Data for residents
■ Having Open Data portal site is one solution
■ Approx 1,800 prefectures / Cities / Towns considering the best way
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15. Kyoto City in numbers
●Population : 1.47 million
○Kyoto pref 2.54million,
57.8% is in Kyoto City
○Government designated city
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57.8%
is in Kyoto City
Kyoto pref
2.54million

16. 8th largest city in Japan
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17. Worlds’ famous tourist spot
● 3.16 million overnight visitor / year
● $9.7 billion tourist spend / year
● 17 world heritages in the city
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18. Making billions
Major Industry in Kyoto City
● Manufacturing / Precision machinery
● Real estate
● Service
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$60billion / yearTotal production :

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Companies in Kyoto City

20. Kyoto City = A lot of data
● 9,000 kinds of data resources
○ Tourism / Other biz
○ Culture / Art
○ Disaster defence
○ Education
○ City planning
○ Politics
● Diverse division in organization (more than 450 divsions)
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21. Challenges

22. Discussion with Kyoto City
●Kyoto City would be the last city to have that kind of stuff
●What if authorized data wasn’t accurate? / correct?
●What about falsification?
●Who in this office would manage this huge task?
○ Diverse division / organizational structure
●Who would really use data?
○ Are citizens really interested in public data?
○ Who really wants it?
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23. Approach
●Who would manage?
○Anybody in their team can use
○Easy to manage page / data / workflow
●Who would really use?
○ User experience
○ Making impact to civic tech community
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24. Solutions

25. Thank you CivicActions Team!
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26. Bulk data uploading made easy
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Management / Governance

27. LOD(Linked Open Data) compatible
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Making all data resource LOD(Linked Open Data)
with Drupal’s RDF Functionality
Management / Governance

28. Full text search(Including text in the files)
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User experience

29. Various data preview functionality
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GeoJSON, ARCGIS, KML supported User experience

30. Other features
● RDF automatically transfered to Sparql server, which makes data searchable
● Excel data transformable into csv
....and more!
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31. Outcome

32. Outcome that Kyoto City feels
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 People actually download data. That changed
internal team entirely
 Feedback from users keep entire organization
highly motivated
 Civic tech events happens a lot after the launch

33. Open Data meets “Robot” event
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35. Our outcome
●The very first DKAN-based installation in government designated city
●Kyoto Prefecture decided to use the same system!
○ Hoping to collaborate city and prefecture as one platform
○ Great role model for other cities how to organize data and orgaization
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36. Findings and learning
●DKAN = Drupal is super flexible
●Dealing with real time data will be fun
○Public transport data
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37. Other government projects
Handling government data with Drupal

38. e-Stat (Japan in Numbers)
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39. e-Stat (Japan in Numbers)
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Under development

40. Venture platform project
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41. Future dream
● Drupal, as main platform for central government
● Drupal, as all goverment agencies site
○ Site governance and common UX with Drupal
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42. Key take away
●Help us to accelerate the power of open technology in
Japanese government / enterprise area
○Share opinions and ideas with us
○Let us tell them your best practices in government project
●Drupal has a great potential to push forward openness in Japan
○ Several government projects are already in progress with Drupal
○ Some people in government recognize Drupal is great
○ We want to get this wheel running more faster and stronger
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44. Drupal enable small team like us
to work with government.
Thank you, Drupal!

45. Q&A session