The Great East Japan Earthquake and Local Government’s ICT Public Seminar was held.

The ICT Section Network for Local Authorities in the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster-stricken Area organized the Great East Japan Earthquake and Local Government’s ICT. During the seminar, government officials from disaster afflicted areas who actually engaged in responding to the disaster, delivered presentations on how disaster-stricken municipalities responded to information and communications at the time of disaster. They also talked about challenges and countermeasures in the areas of Information and Communication at the time of a major disaster.
 

1 Date and Place

    Time and Date: Thursday, November 24, 2011
    Venue: Gallery Hall, L-park Sendai

2 Speakers, Overviews and Materials of the Presentations

 (1) Mr. Kaihei Funakoshi, Planning and Finance Section, Yamada Town
    Title: Decisions Made in the Wake of Power Outrages

        Material (Yamada Town) (PDF: 1,387KB)
        Presentation Script (Yamada Town) (PDF: 63KB)

 (2) Mr. Yoshiaki Takahashi, General Affairs Section, General Affairs Department, Rikuzentakata City
    Title: Efforts to Restore Rikuzentakata City’s Information Systems

        Material (Rikuzentakata City) (PDF: 299KB)
        Presentation Script (Rikuzentakata City) (PDF: 73KB)

 (3) Mr. Ken Tsunashima, Informationization Promotion Section, Planning Department,General Affairs Bureau, Nagoya City
    Title: Nagoya City’s View of a Disaster-stricken Local Government’s ICT

        Material (Nagoya City) (PDF: 310KB)
        Presentation Script (Nagoya City) (PDF: 68KB)

 (4) Mr. Masaru Sato, Information Policy Section, Planning Department, Ishinomaki City
    Title: What happened to Ishinomaki City and Its information system?

        Material (Ishinomaki City) (PDF: 472KB)
        Presentation Script (Ishinomaki City) (PDF: 73KB)

 (5) Mr. Yuichi Tabata, General Affairs Section, General Affairs Department,Tagajo City, Miyagi Prefecture
    Title: Role of the Information Section in an Earthquake Disaster

        Material (Tagajo City) (PDF: 1,149KB)
        Presentation Script (Tagajo City) (PDF: 74KB)

 (6) Mr. Kazutaka Hanzawa, Planning and Information Department, Planning and Information Department,Kunimi Town, Fukushima Prefecture
    Title: Reconstruction after the Earthquake and Tsunami and Steps toward Recovery
    　    ―Restoring Systems Operation in 14 days―

        Material (Kunimi Town) (PDF: 1,556KB)
        Presentation Script (Kunimi Town) (PDF: 69KB)

 (7) Mr. Takehiko Imai, Information Policy Section, General Affairs and Planning Bureau, Sendai City
    Title: Local Government’s Response to the Great East Japan Earthquake

        Material (Sendai City) (PDF: 656KB)
        Presentation Script (Sendai City) (PDF: 60KB)

 

*What is The ICT Section Network for Local Authorities in the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster-stricken Area (ISN)?

Miyagi Prefecture and Sendai City jointly established the ISN in May, 2011 as a platform to share information among disaster-stricken local government officials who are in charge of ICT. Presently, 43 municipalities joined the ISN.
In order to share information and deepen the cooperation between those municipalities, ISN aims to make progress in the reconstruction of disaster-stricken areas effectively and efficiently, as well as to contribute towards becoming a city that is know for having next-level disaster prevention plans utilizing ICT based on the disaster experience.