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An outline of support dependents through the cooperation of various data on demonstration projects was announced.

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Digital Agency held the second meeting of the "Information on dependents and data connections Project Team Senior Vice-Minister Project" today, January 21, and announced the outline of the support demonstration projects by the cooperation of various data on dependents and the precedent cases in local government and other prefectures.

This project was launched under the direction of Prime Minister Kishida in November last year with the aim of 1) early detection of dependents, which is facing difficulties in poverty, abuse, etc., and 2) realization of a preventive approach in a push type and outreach type, mainly by linking education, childcare, welfare, medical care, and other data on dependents with consideration for personal data protection.

At the second meeting today, an overview of demonstration projects, the status of consideration by the Cabinet Office Study Group, and prior examples in each local government were shared. In addition, it was confirmed that the Government of Japan would aim to discover poverty, abuse, and other dependents that are facing difficulties at an early stage and realize push type and outreach type support that meets the needs of such dependents.

In addition, opinions were shared on how to link various types of information on dependents and how to lead to policy actions, as each organization is responding individually by utilizing the information they possess according to their roles.

Digital Agency and the relevant ministries and agencies once again explained that the national government does not centrally manage information on dependents. demonstration projects will develop systems and systems to link information on education, childcare, welfare, medical care, etc. as necessary in each local government, and will support efforts to discover dependents that truly require support and to use them for push-type efforts according to needs. In addition, we will also consider Issue and other areas in terms of systems.

Mr. Fumiaki Kobayashi, Senior Vice-Minister for Digital, who is the chief investigator of this project team, summarized today's meeting and said as follows.

"Last year, Digital Agency was established in the government, and I think it will be a symbolic project that Digital Agency will promote together with each ministry. Digital Agency will support each ministry, local government, and the field from the system side so that they can demonstrate their original abilities. As a control tower, we will support them by sharing information and creating a forum for meetings where it tends to be partial optimization if each ministry alone works.

This project is not intended to build a national database to manage dependents information in an integrated manner. It should be positioned as a means to detect SOS, which is likely to be overlooked by only one department or organization, and to support the judgment of officials of local government and related organizations who are engaged in support for personal data, by linking data scattered in various departments and organizations with consideration for the protection of dependents.

First, we would like to start the survey and research project within this fiscal year as much as possible based on the progress of the study by the Cabinet Office study group that you introduced today on use cases and necessary data items, and aim to present a certain direction before the points to be discussed are arranged around May or June this year. In addition, we would like to start the project for the demonstration of data connections in local government based on data items after inviting applications for local government within this fiscal year. "

The summary of the proceedings and related materials of today's meeting are as follows.

Attendees

  • Fumiaki Kobayashi (Senior Vice Minister of Digital)

  • AKAIKE Masaaki

  • Hidemichi Sato (Vice-Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare)

  • Yoshitaka Ikeda (Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)

  • Taro Yamada (Digital Parliamentary Secretary)

  • Other officials in charge of relevant ministries and agencies

A point of order

1. The outline of demonstration projects in Digital Agency is announced, and the leading cases in each local government are introduced as suggestions and references for realizing it.

2. Introduce the status of consideration by the Cabinet Office Study Group and confirm that it will be linked to future efforts.

Reference

For the proceedings and related materials of each meeting, please see below.

*The conference is shown on video.

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