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Super City Initiative

Super City Initiative

Super City aims to realize 2030 future society from citizen’s perspectives and with citizen participation by:

1. Providing cutting-edge services with data analysis technologies in a wide range of sectors covering all aspects of citizen life (government services, mobility, healthcare, education, etc.)  

2. Developing urban data platforms that allows multi-sectoral data connection and data sharing

3. Promoting comprehensive regulatory reform to enable cutting-edge services

 

Legal Framework

A framework has been established to allow special provisions for Super Cities to be quickly approved and for multiple special provisions to be acted upon simultaneously.

National Strategic Special Zone Law decreed on June 3, 2020 and took effect on September 1. 

Basic policy of the National Strategic Special Zone amended on October 30, 2020.

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Overview of Digital Garden Health Special Zones

Purpose and Objectives

●To utilize the National Strategic Special Zone for Innovative Business Partnerships by designating several local municipalities to use digital technology in solving local health and medical issues.

●To proactively promote local digitization and regulatory reform.

Designated Local Municipalities

The designated municipalities must adhere to the following principles:
●Policies and data-linkage efforts should be expected to produce a positive net result.
●Regarding regulatory reform, there should be at least one item that has been generally agreed upon with the regulatory agency and more than one item that has been proposed and considered feasible enough for discussions with the regulatory agency to proceed.

Outline of Initiatives

Multiple tasks related to health and medical care will be tackled via industry-leading projects in collaboration with local municipalities.

Overview of Designated Zones

Super Cities, Digital Garden Healthcare Special Zones, and designated local municipalities

* Population figures provided by local municipalities on January 1, 2023

** “Medical institution” refers to the core facilities taking part in the initiative

 

Super City / Smart City Forum 2022

On August 26, 2022, the Cabinet Office held a forum to publicize the Super City and Smart City Initiatives and the Digital Garden Healthcare Special Zones. For the first time since the zones were established in April 2022, all parties involved in these initiatives gathered to hear presentations on the relevant efforts undertaken by each zoning district.

At the venue, booths were set up to showcase the innovative steps taken by companies and organizations that support the cutting-edge services and data-linkage platform soon to be implemented in Super City and Digital Garden Healthcare Special Zones. The booths also presented information on various initiatives for the creation of Smart Cities.

Date and time: Friday, August 26, 2022, 9:50 - 17:50
Venue: JP TOWER Hall & Conference, KITTE 4-5F, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Number of participants: approx. 1,600 (approx. 300 in person / 1,300 online)



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