u-Japan Best Practices

As a part of its "u-Japan" policy initiative, MIC solicited cases of ICT service systems that solve wide-ranging problems arising in our daily lives or businesses to compile the "u-Japan Best Practices". Outstanding cases will be awarded.

In 2007, MIC has complied 48 cases as the "2007 u-Japan Best Practices(Japanese version)", with the purpose of raising public awareness by presenting thereof as successful ICT utilization models for the ubiquitous network society. From all of the entries, u-Japan Best Practice Reviewing Committee selected five exceptional applications for the "u-Japan Grand Prize", "Best Life Solution Award", and "Best Business Solution Award".

u-Japan Best Practice Award (Cases of winner in 2007)

Classifica-tion	Name of service or system	Description
u-Japan Grand Prize	"Bedside safety control system using RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)"(PDF) (Akita University Hospital)	A practical system to prevent malpractice by attaching RFID on injection drugs and patient wrist bands, and linking them with electronic medical records via wireless LAN on real time basis. The effect of the system is verified in daily examinations, where the ubiquitous network technology is contributing to the improvement of safety in medical care.
Best Life Solution Award	"Community-based data broadcasting ("Nandemo TV" {Everything Television})" (Reinan cable network Co., Ltd.)	Community-based data broadcasting service. As a regional cable TV station, it provides information closely connected to the life of the citizens via data broadcasting, such as announcement from the municipal government, town meeting, school, etc. as well as community information on the website.
Best Life Solution Award	"Educational support project for capacity building of human resource in charge of the future of the region" (Fukushima Prefecture's board of education, Benesse Corporation)	Implementation of an effective initiative as a model project for a new framework of public education, where "e-learning" plays a central role in attempting to improve the motivation of students to study in remote areas and mountainside or mountainous areas as well as teachers’ ability of instruction.
Best Business Solution Award	"New work style system by thin client with free address and high security" (Hitachi, Ltd.)	Realization of ubiquitous operation by introducing thin client, IP phone, etc., aiming for the improvement of productivity and motivation of white-collar workers. It contributes to ensuring high security, improvement in the ability of employees to make proposals by improved efficiency of operation, improvement in the space efficiency, etc..
Best Business Solution Award	"FOMA TV phone alcoholic check system" (NTT DoCoMo, Inc. )	A manager in a sales office can talk face-to-face with his driver in a far place by using TV phone function of the third generation mobile phone, FOMA. In addition, an alcoholic sensor connected to FOMA will transmit the measurement data automatically, of which result the manager can confirm immediately.