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Efforts to Respond to Disasters in Digital Agency

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It describes the support provided by Digital Agency in the event of actual disasters. Based on the experience, knowledge and issues gained through the support, we will promote efforts to realize disaster risk reduction DX in preparation for future disasters.

Establishment of the Disaster Digital Assistance Team (D-CERT)

In the Noto earthquake of 2024, which occurred on January 1, 2024, digital human resources from the private sector entered the affected areas immediately after the disaster and built a system on the spot to understand the situation of evacuees in response to the needs of Ishikawa Prefecture. They supported the prefecture's response from a digital perspective and made a significant contribution.
Based on these experiences, we have decided to create a "Disaster Relief Digital Support Team" in collaboration with the Disaster Prevention DX Public-Private Co-Creation so that disaster-affected prefectures can effectively respond to disasters in the event of large-scale disasters.

Name

  • Name: Disaster Relief Digital Support Team
  • Commonly known as D-CERT (Digital Coordination and Emergency Response Team)

Support team members

  • Digital Agency
  • Disaster Prevention DX Public-Private Co-Creation
  • D-CERT Secretariat (Trustee: Resilient digital coordination center), etc.

Activities

In the event of a large-scale disaster, we will enter the disaster-affected area and, based on the needs of the disaster-affected prefecture, propose a menu of digital support deemed necessary for disaster response and specify the content of the support, and carry out the necessary activities to facilitate the disaster response of the disaster-affected prefecture.

Future Plans

Explanatory meetings will be held for prefectural governments on the contents of activities related to disaster relief digital support teams.

Future initiatives based on the 2024 Noto earthquake

The Noto earthquake occurred in January 2024 (2024), and Digital Agency has been providing support. Based on the experience, knowledge and issues gained from this, we will promote efforts to realize disaster prevention DX in preparation 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 the necessary budgetary measures.
For a summary of the content, please refer to Detailed information on future initiatives based on the 2024 Noto earthquake 2024 Noto earthquake.

Future initiatives

  1. Construction of Disaster Victims Master Database
    • In order to develop support tailored to the needs of disaster victims, we will build a master database to aggregate and share information on disaster victims across municipal areas immediately after the disaster. Vision for a Digital Garden City Nation issue Gold (digital mounting type) We will develop it using TYPES and promote its nationwide deployment.
    • The Secretariat of the Cabinet Secretariat Digital Administrative Reform Council invited applications from the public for the construction of a database system for wide-area disaster victims of Vision for a Digital Garden City Nation issue Kin (digital implementation type) TYPES, and Ishikawa Prefecture received the contract. Currently, Ishikawa Prefecture is working on the construction of a database system for wide-area disaster victims. Digital Agency and Minister of State for Disaster Management Cabinet Office are participating as related ministries and agencies.
  2. Enhancement of support for evacuees using My Number Card
    • From ordinary times, we will work to increase the percentage of My Number Card passengers carrying mobile phones, install smartphones, etc., and expand online applications using My Number Card.
    • This time, we will re-examine the results of the system for assessing the status of evacuees, which was urgently constructed and operated using Suica. In preparation for the next time, we will prepare spare cards and readers.
      *For details on the solution to grasp information on evacuees using Suica, please refer to Efforts to Grasp Information on Disaster Victims Using Digital Technology in Response to the 2024 Noto earthquake 2024 Noto earthquake.
    • We will promote the use of evacuation shelter management systems.
  3. Development of data linkage infrastructure between disaster prevention systems and applications
    • In order to effectively utilize various disaster prevention systems and applications developed by the private sector in the field, we will promote the development of a foundation for data linkage between different systems and applications from peacetime.
  4. Establishment of Disaster Relief Digital Support Team System
    • Based on the experience of this Noto earthquake, we will promote the introduction of a mechanism to dispatch digital human resources from the private sector in the event of a large-scale disaster, in cooperation with the Disaster Risk Reduction DX Public-Private Co-Creation Council.
  5. Promotion of introduction of GSS
    • Based on our experience in Noto earthquake, we have found that GSS, which is being introduced as a common network for ministries and agencies, is effective not only for information sharing in normal times, but also for business continuity and smooth communication in response to disasters at local headquarters. Therefore, we will work to further promote the introduction of GSS at ministries and agencies.

Detailed information on future initiatives based on the 2024 Noto earthquake

Efforts to Grasp Information on Disaster Victims Using Digital Technology in Response to the 2024 Noto earthquake

In the Noto earthquake disaster-affected areas, there are more opportunities for disaster-affected people to move to a wider area, such as moving from the primary evacuation shelter to the 1.5 and secondary evacuation shelter, or starting a life outside the evacuation shelter (relatives' houses, homes, sleeping in cars, etc. inside and outside the prefecture). In the course of this, it has become difficult to grasp the whereabouts of disaster-affected people and the usage status of each evacuation shelter, and it has become a challenge to properly grasp the whereabouts and activities of disaster-affected people.
For this reason, in response to a request from Ishikawa prefecture, Digital Agency and the Disaster Prevention Digital Transformation Public-Private Collaboration Council, with the cooperation of East Japan Railway Company, proposed a solution for grasping information on evacuees using Suica, and will implement it as shown in the following materials.