The document discusses Japan's national e-participation policy and strategy. It outlines 10 principles for a digital society, including transparency, fairness, security, inclusion and ongoing innovation. It describes Japan's Digital Innovation Ideabox open dialogue service, which saw high participation rates in its first phase. It also discusses lessons learned around the importance of top-level commitment to e-participation, gathering citizen input to inform policymaking, and working with civic technology communities to promote open government initiatives nationwide. Finally, it addresses the challenge of diversity in participation and recommendations to share examples of increasing participation across different groups.
2. Digital strategy has 10 principles for a Digital society.
1. Transparency and Openness
2. Fairness and Ethics
3. Security and Safety
4. Continuity, Stability, Resilience
5. Resolution of Social Challenges
6. Adaptability and Agility
7. Inclusion and Diversity
8. Digital Ubiquity
9. Creation of New Value
10. Ongoing Breakthroughs
National E-Participation Policy and Strategy
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E-information
? Open data
? SNS
? Blog
E-consultation & E-decision-
making
? Open dialogue
? Collaboration
? Meetup
3. Digital innovation ideabox (Open dialogue service for citizens)
Phase1 2020-10-09 / 2021-10-11
Registered users 7,327
Ideas 7,911
Comments 37,985
Votes 68,874
Viewers 500,000
PV 2,500,000
Lessons learned in
E-Participation and Leaving No One Behind
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Face-to-face meetings between the minister and participants
Top management commitment is important for e-Participation.
? Service ideas for the digital society
? Requests for a new agency
? Solutions for the digital public services
? Barrier of the digital society
? Advice to the government strategy
4. Digital innovation ideabox
Lessons learned in
E-Participation and Leaving No One Behind
Sample of
the policy making process
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Gather and analyze the information.
Clarify of issues
Publish the materials.
Discussion on the Ideabox.
Feedback to the committee
Public consultation
(Open discussion)
Revise the strategy
Publish the strategy
Start Committees Data strategy(Beta) National Data strategy
2021-06
2020-12
2020-10
? Ideas
? Opinions
? Questions
? Votes
5. Working with the CivicTech communities
Our goal is to spread open government
initiatives to create a better society.
The Digital Agency recruits members or
appoints them as open data evangelists
from active areas.
The evangelists go to cities that want to
work on open government and advice.
Lessons learned in
E-Participation and Leaving No One Behind
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1.
Active
CivicTech
communities
4.
Non Active Municipalities
3.
Community of
Evangelists
Digital Agency
2.
Active
members
6. Challenge
Challenge and Recommendation
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Recommendation
It would be good to share use cases from different countries on how they diversify
the participants.
Man Woman
4%
13%
21%
25%
19%
10%
4%
2% 2%
10-19 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59
60-69 70-79 80-89 90-
Diversity is an essential issue for e-
Participation, so we used SNS services with
many users among young people and
women.
Editor's Notes
#3: E-information:?Enabling participation by providing citizens with public information and access to information without or upon demand
E-consultation:?Engaging citizens in contributions to and deliberation on public policies and services
E-decision-making:?Empowering citizens through co-design of policy option and co-production of service components and delivery modalities.
Please share your national or sub-national policy/strategy on e-participation, either existing or prospective. Please share specific detail?about policy framework, implementation and milestones achieved, especially in support of national sustainable development . ?
#4: Please share TWO critical lessons learned in e-participation and leaving no one behind: what works and what doesn¡¯t.
#7: Please share ONE challenge (with a view to hearing about the experiences of other presenters) and ONE issue/recommendation for further discussion in UN forums and research publications, including through the UN E-Government Survey