May 29, 2020 Appeal for Regional Public Entities Supported under FY2020 Project to Promote Planning and Promotion Structure Building for Regional IoT Implementation Organizing (Regional IoT Implementation Type)

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has decided to make an appeal from today through July 3, 2020, for regional public entities supported under a project to promote planning and promotion structure building for regional IoT implementation organizing.

1. Project overview

1. Project purpose and contents

The project to promote planning and promotion structure building for regional IoT implementation organizing (regional IoT implementation type) provides support to local public entities for the resolution of specific regional issues by introducing information and communications technology (ICT), e.g., the IoT. So far, such local public entities’ efforts are not making progress due to a lack of sufficient knowledge and know-how. In particular, the project will assist them in formulating plans and the construction of promotion systems for the introduction of regional ICT/IoT and organizing and publishing the results and know-how obtained through the support.
MIC expects that the plans formulated through this project can be actively utilized in the future for various purposes. These purposes include the implementation of local independent projects of target supported organizations, formulation of data utilization promotion plans of the municipal and private sectors, and applications for various subsidy projects.

2. Support contents

The main support contents are specified below. The support contents and the results obtained from the support may be opened to the public.

• 1.
  Conducting training and consultation meetings by support contractors (four times in total planned)

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    The training and consultation meetings will be held using an online conference system. Local public entities not provided with a usage environment for online meetings (including devices, such as PCs or Wi-Fi rooters connecting to the Internet) can rent them under this project.
• 2.
  Consultations provided by support contractors

2. Application method

1. Targets

This project provides support to local public entities that meet the following conditions.

• 1.
  They intend to make the following efforts:

  • Periodic report on activities for making plans and establishing a promotion system for support contractors
  • Participation in a total of four workshops with consultation meetings and a final result report meeting
• 2.
  They have not introduced regional IoT by utilizing MIC’s ICT/IoT promotion measures in the last five years (since fiscal 2015).

2. Submission deadline

No later than 5:00 pm on Friday, July 3, 2020

3. Method of application

Apply according to the application guidelines (https://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000689223.pdf ) (described in Japanese only).

3. Selection of local public entities to be supported

In the project to promote planning and promotion structure building for regional IoT implementation organizing (regional IoT implementation type), MIC will select approximately four local public entities based on documents submitted by them.

4. Announcement of selection results

MIC will announce the selection results by the end of July 2020 on its webs