| Home | Updated: May 1, 2002 |
| Home | Updated: May 1, 2002 |
Major projects in the past
Hi-OVIS (Highly-interactive Optical Visual Information System) is the world first large-scale optical communication experimental field project at Higashi-Ikoma, Nara. During this experiment, fiber optics were laid in between households or public facilities, with the aim of experimenting on interactive visual applications. Services such as interactive TV, video on demand, home shopping, and home security, all of which are currently on trial worldwide, were in operation experimentally. This experiment pre-dated the usage of the expression, "New Media". The achievements from the Hi-OVIS project achieved in Higashi-Ikoma can be considered as a vanguard of today's IT revolution.
Triggered by Great Hanshi-Awaji Earthquake, the NMDA contracted the design and administration of "Overall Information Network System For Disasters (Phoenix)" from Hyogo prefecture in 1995. As a result, the system has been implemented throughout the Hyogo prefecture and is composed of more than 400 sets of terminals, which started operating from 1996.
The NMDA was in charge of the secretariat of Electronic Network Consortium, which is one of the industry groups composed of online service operators. The NMDA set up opportunities for mutual communication between people in charge of electronic networks such as the Internet or PC communication. In addition, the NMDA proposed the solving the problems related to electronic networks. The NMDA implemented the "Electronic Network Actual Condition Survey" and the "Online Software Grand Prize", which in turn created "Rules and Manners For Internet Users", "Rules and Manners For Child Internet Users", "In-house Rules Organizing Guideline For the Use of the Internet", and guidelines for personal information protection (revised) in the operation of an electronic network.
On July 1, 2001, the Internet Association Japan was founded, which is regulated by the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, from the Electronic Network Consortium and Internet Association of Japan together.
The aim of the Information Community Building Promotion Project is to help vitalize local economies and improve citizen services by promoting community information with the support of the first supplementary budge of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (via Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan) in 1998. System constructions were conducted in 15 communities nationwide, resulting aided local community vitalization and economic build-up.
By utilizing rapidly-growing digital and information technologies regardless of geographical restraint, it has became possible to broaden life environments such as labor, school, consumption, and leisure widely. The aim of Information System For Local Life Space Creation Developing Project is to realize the vitalization of our economy and the enrichment of living habitats by developing the information system which would help create life habitats making the most of local features.
The development theme is composed of four fields depending on local features:
With the support of the third supplementary budget from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (via the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan), a total of 18 themes were carried out nationwide.