The 2nd Digital Ad Hoc Working Group was held. We learned advanced technologies to replace analog regulation through public-private cooperation.

Digital Agency held the Second Digital Extraordinary Administrative Advisory Committee (hereinafter referred to as the "Digital Ad Hoc Working Group") today, Tuesday, February 22, 2022. Amid the progress of digital technology, regulation requires confirmation by the human eye, and regulation requires people to always be in a specific place. In order to reform regulation, which is hindering security, productivity, and progress in the digital age, we learned from a company that provides advanced technology such as remote monitoring cameras, drones, and AI, and from a related ministries and agencies that conducted a preliminary review of regulation.

Through such opportunities, the Working Group will comprehensively grasp and organize the relationship between the cross-sectional regulation review and applicable technologies, and utilize it as knowledge when discussing the cross-sectional inspection and review of each ministries and agencies and regulation in the future.

The following is an overview of the technology presented by the cooperating companies and the case study of the preliminary review of regulation at the second working group meeting today.

1. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
   Revision of guidelines for infrastructure inspection, formulation and update of "Inspection Support Technology Performance Catalog", etc.

2. KOKUSAI KOGYO CO.,LTD.
   Technology to create a 3D model from a concrete lining image in a tunnel acquired by a self-propelled vehicle equipped with a near-infrared camera, etc., and to create a deformation development diagram

3. Photon Lab Co.
   Remote non-contact hammering technology to measure the deterioration state of concrete members by laser and AI analysis

4. CHODAI CO.,LTD.
   Technology to estimate the tension of cable by analyzing the moving image of the vibration of cable in a cable-stayed bridge

5. Grid Skyway LLC
   Imaging and diagnostic technology applied to patrol and inspection of electric power facilities by drones

Mr. Fumiaki Kobayashi, Senior Vice-Minister for Digital and Senior Vice-Minister for Cabinet Office Affairs, who serves as the Secretary-General of the Digital Ad Hoc Committee, expressed his thoughts after the end of this Working Group as follows.

"In promoting a cross-sectional review of digital society toward the realization of regulation, I think there are two points. The first is whether it is possible to substitute analog regulation by utilizing current technology, and the second is how to certify the substitutable technology and make implementation possible. At this working group meeting, the approach to social implementation of new technology, which is a preliminary initiative by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, was very helpful. In addition, the advanced technologies of private sector companies, such as lasers, image analysis, and AI diagnosis, have advanced greatly, and I felt the possibility of advanced technologies to substitute analog regulation. I can expect that these initiatives and technologies will create new Japanese growth industries, and it was a very meaningful meeting."

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Reference

• Digital Extraordinary Administrative Advisory Committee Working Group (2nd)