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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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