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The portal site also enhances the utilization of data for analyzing trends within various  policy areas,
            and for comparing how different departments of the government go about their work.

            Additionally, technical users will be able to create useful applications using the raw data files, which
            can  be accessed by everyone.


            7.3  IT dashboard

            "IT dashboard" is a portal site that National Strategy Office of Information and Communications
            Technology  in  Japanese  government  created.  This  movement  arose  by  "Declaration  to  be  the
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            World's Most Advanced IT Nation" on June 2013 . Figure 5 shows a top page of IT dashboard.


























                                     Figure 5 – Capture of Postal Site, IT Dashboard
            This declaration indicated that people living in Japan would be contributed by ICT; therefore quality
            of ICT should be higher. The purposes of this declaration are introduced below:
            (1)     Contributing to the creation of new industry and growth in all industry fields through the
                    creation of innovative technologies and integrated services that will enable the public to
                    experience personally the recovery of the Japanese economy through the use of IT and data;
            (2)     Contributing to the improvement of the world's safest and most disaster‐resilient society
                    where people can live safely, with peace of mind, and comfortably; and
            (3)     Contributing to the provision of electronic government services and government reform
                    from the perspective of user public to enable one‐stop public services that anyone can
                    access and use from anywhere.

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            In order to provide the data sets, the government developed a website "IT dashboard" . 15 federal
            offices  shared  the  data  sets  via  the  website.  Categories and  percentages  of  the  open  data  are
            geographical data (33.0%), static data (28.1%), white paper (14.1%), protection against disasters
            (14.7%), technical data of using IT dashboard (7.0%), and the other (2.2%). Used data formats are
            pdf, html, xls, gif, csv, pdtxt, zip, epub, jpg, xlsx, ppt, docx,pdf", and mp3.

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            61  Declaration to be the World’s Most Advanced IT Nation, URL:
               http://japan.kantei.go.jp/policy/it/20140624_decration.pdf (2014).
            62  IT  dash  board,  National  Strategy  Office  of  Information  and  Communications  Technology,  URL:
               http://www.itdashboard.go.jp/ (2014).

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