"Digital Rural City National Concept" that connects cities and regions digitally
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has set up a "Digital Rural City National Concept" to solve local issues such as depopulation and aging by implementing digital. A "digital rural city" that fuses "convenience of big cities" and "richness of the region" by transforming the "living and society", "education and R & D", and "industry and economy" of the region with the power of digital infrastructure. I'm trying to build it.
We are trying to put into practice various approaches without being particular about "town development" in a narrow sense. For example, the Digital Agency gives the following six examples.
1. 1. We aim to create a comprehensive town by expanding the frontage to all services of the super city / smart city type. Of these, those that require bold regulatory reform will be designated as National Strategic Special Zones as a super city.
2. Based on MaaS advanced MaaS, we aim to commercialize life services that utilize it. For example, we aim to build a new Mobility living area centered on Shared-type satellite offices.
3. 3. Aim to reorganize living services from the perspective of regional economic cycle model Sustainability. For example, new energy supply and demand management utilizing storage batteries and a new business model that is conscious of the circular economy.
Four. Smart Health Care We aim to create a town where elderly people can live with peace of mind while working by actively combining smart health, smart agriculture, biometrics, and so on.
Five. Disaster prevention / resilience-first type We aim to improve and redesign strong living services in an emergency, from designing optimal services and data linkage infrastructure for responding to diversifying disasters.
6. We aim to create a town that reconsiders from the redesign of homes, which is a fusion of smart home-first next-generation digital home appliances and new life solution services.
[Source] Digital Rural City National Concept [URL] https://www.cas.go.jp/jp/seisaku/digital_denen/dai1/siryou4.pdf
In order to realize these, it is essential to strengthen cooperation between services through digital infrastructure such as data linkage infrastructure and APIs.
In order to realize it, the government will show a policy to improve the digital infrastructure
In order to realize this concept, the government is trying to incorporate the idea of "digital principle" that makes it possible to utilize digital technology again from the system that requires document submission, face-to-face, and visual inspection.
The "Digital Principles" list the following five items.
1. 1. Digital completion / automation 2. Flexible and flexible governance 3. Public-private partnership 4. Ensuring interoperability 5.Use of common infrastructure
What I would like to pay particular attention to is "digital completion." This will lead to changes in the rules of writing, face-to-face, visual and periodic inspections in the industry. Speaking of the real estate industry, there are rules such as the Construction Business Act that require the placement of people with specific qualifications at construction sites, but we will make it possible to replace these with drones, cameras, sensors, etc. It can be said that it is an extension of the electronic signature (link) that has been taken up in SUMAVE for some time.
Former Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira in the 1980s first set out to "promote the Garden City-State Concept," which aims to combine the vitality of the city with the comfort of the countryside. Based on this concept, the "Digital Rural City National Concept" aims to create a society in which cities and regions can be digitally connected over physical distances and the resources and information of cities can be utilized even in rural areas. Many changes to the business law are required, and there are many issues.
Prime Minister Kishida has stated that he will complete the submarine cable "Digital Rural City Super Highway" that goes around Japan in about three years, and promises to develop a large-capacity infrastructure nationwide by combining large-scale data centers, optical fibers, 5G, etc. doing. Can the infrastructure be completed in about 3 years? Attention is focused on the success or failure of the Super Highway, which is also a milestone in the concept.