May 29, 2020 Announcement of Results of FY2019 Project to Promote Planning and Promotion Structure Building for Regional IoT Implementation Organizing

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) implemented a project to promote planning and promotion structure building for regional IoT implementation organizing for fiscal 2019, which provided support to six local public entities for the formulation of concrete promotion plans on regional IoT implementation. Accordingly, MIC has decided to announce the results of the project.

1. Overview

Since 2018, MIC has been implementing the project to promote planning and promotion structure building for regional IoT implementation organizing. This project 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.
Recently, MIC summarized the results of the six groups targeted for support in fiscal 2019 and has decided to open the results to the public.

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  MIC selected local public entities satisfying the three conditions specified below as a result of a public appeal.

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  They intended to make the following efforts:

  • Periodic report on activities for making plans and establishing a promotion system for support contractors (Once a month as a guide)
  • Participation in a total of four workshops with consultation meetings
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  They did not introduce regional IoT by utilizing MIC’s ICT/IoT promotion measures in the past five years (in fiscal 2015 or later) .
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  They did not conclude regional comprehensive cooperation agreements for promoting ICT/IoT initiatives with private companies.

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    The conditions are different for the fiscal 2020 public appeal.

2. Results of this project

• The plans formulated by the support target organizations are as follows: