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Disaster Response Initiatives in Digital Agency

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This shows the support Digital Agency provided when disasters actually occurred. Based on the experience, knowledge, and issues gained through the support, we will promote initiatives to realize disaster prevention DX to prepare for future disasters.

Future Initiatives Based on Noto Peninsula Earthquake 2024

Noto Peninsula Earthquake occurred in January 2024, and Digital Agency has been providing support. Based on the experience, knowledge, and challenges gained from this, we will promote initiatives to realize disaster prevention DX to prepare for future disasters.
We are considering the following five points as specific initiatives for the future. We will work quickly to realize the measures and link them to necessary budgetary measures.
For the material that summarizes the contents, please check the detailed material Detailed material on future initiatives based on the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake.

Future Initiatives

  1. Establishment of a master database for disaster victims
    • In order to provide support tailored to the needs of disaster victims, a master database will be established to collect and share information on disaster victims across municipal boundaries immediately after the disaster, using the grants for the Vision for a Digital Garden City Nation (digital implementation type) TYPES system, which will be expanded nationwide.
    • The Secretariat of the Cabinet Secretariat Digital Administrative Reform Council solicited applications for the construction of a database system for wide-area disaster victims of the grants for the Vision for a Digital Garden City Nation (digital implementation type) TYPES, and the Ishikawa prefectural government was entrusted with the task. Currently, efforts are being made to build a database system for wide-area disaster victims in Ishikawa prefecture, with Digital Agency and the Minister of State for Disaster Management of Cabinet Office participating as related ministries and agencies.
  2. Enhancement of support for evacuees using My Number Card
    • In addition to working on a regular basis to increase the percentage of people carrying My Number Card and to install smartphones, we will expand online applications using My Number Card.
    • This time, we will once again verify the results of the system for identifying the status of evacuees, which was urgently built and operated using Suica, and prepare for the next time by installing spare cards and readers.
      *For more information on Suica based solutions for tracking evacuees, please check with Efforts to Obtain Information on Disaster Victims Using Digital Technology in the Response by Noto Peninsula Earthquake in 2024.
    • We will promote the use of evacuation shelter management systems.
  3. Development of infrastructure for data linkage between disaster prevention systems and applications
    • In order to make effective use of various disaster prevention systems and applications built by the private sector in the field, we will promote the development of infrastructure for data linkage between different systems and applications in normal times.
  4. Establishment of the Digital Assistance Team for Disaster Response Program
    • Based on the experience in Noto Peninsula Earthquake, we will promote the introduction of a system to dispatch digital human resources from the private sector when a large-scale disaster occurs in cooperation with the Disaster Prevention DX Public-Private Joint Creation Council.
  5. Accelerate adoption of GSS
    • Through our experience in Noto Peninsula Earthquake, we have learned that the GSS, which is currently being introduced as a common network environment for ministries and agencies, is effective not only for information sharing during normal times, but also for business continuity and smooth communication during disasters at the local head office. We will further promote its introduction to ministries and agencies.

Detailed material on future initiatives based on the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake

Efforts to Obtain Information on Disaster Victims Using Digital Technology in the Response by Noto Peninsula Earthquake in 2024

In the disaster-stricken areas in Noto Peninsula Earthquake, there are increasing opportunities for disaster victims to move to a wider area, such as moving from the first evacuation shelter to the second evacuation shelter or the 1.5 evacuation shelter, or starting to live outside the prefecture (staying at relatives' homes or homes inside or outside the prefecture, staying overnight in cars, etc.). In this process, it has become difficult to obtain their whereabouts and the status of individual evacuation shelter use, etc., and it has again become a challenge to properly obtain the whereabouts and activities of disaster victims.
For this reason, Digital Agency and the Disaster Prevention DX Public-Private Joint Creation Council received a request from Ishikawa Prefectural Government and, with the cooperation of East Japan Railway Company, proposed a Suica based solution to obtain evacuees' information and will implement it as follows.