Committees

This is a committee having an objective to examine the most appropriate state of schemes in respect of matters of keen attention from the viewpoint of rules and governance, such as legal systems and administrative methods applied at the time of making open the information owned by the national government, local governments and private companies, and to make recommendations to the government, etc.

The Committee, jointly with the Technical Committee, published in FY 2013 an open-data guidance delineating the rules and techniques that can be referenced at the time of making the information owned by the government, local governments, etc. publicly available, and has been renewing and administering the section on use rules of the guidance.

• Chairperson
  Yuriko Inoue (Professor, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy)
• Vice Chairperson
  Yuko Noguchi (Head of Legal at Google Japan Inc. / Lawyer)
• Committee
  Toshiko Sawada (Director, EC Network)
  Fumito Tomooka (Professor, Nihon University College of Law)
  Ryoji Mori (Cyber Law Japan Eichi Law Offices Partner / Lawyer)
• Observer
  Cabinet Secretariat
  Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
  Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
  Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
  Geospatial Information Authority of Japan
  National Diet Library
• Secretariat
  Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.

As regards the examinations about activities in and before FY2013, please look at the archive pages of the website of Open Data Promotion Consortium.