July 13, 2020 Decision on Regional Public Entities Supported under FY2020 Project to Promote Planning and Promotion Structure Building for Regional IoT Implementation Organizing (Regional IoT Implementation Type) and Implementation of Additional Public Appeal

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) selected the regional public entities specified below to be supported under a project to promote planning and promotion structure building for regional IoT implementation organizing but has decided to make an additional public appeal from today through July 31, 2020, for more regional public entities.

1. Project overview

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 regional IoT. So far, such local public entities’ efforts are not making progress due to a lack of sufficient knowledge and know-how. Therefore, MIC made a public appeal from Friday, May 29 through Friday, July 3, 2020, for regional public entities supported under the project.

2. Contents of decision

MIC selected the three entities that applied for this project to give support.

Number	Supported entity
1	Furano City, Hokkaido
2	Nichinan Town, Tottori Prefecture
3	Nakatane Town, Kagoshima Prefecture

3. Additional public appeal

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 31, 2020

4. 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 one or more local public entities based on documents submitted by them.

5．Announcement of selection results

MIC will announce the selection results by the end of August 2020 on its website.