Japan has been confronting many social issues such as child poverty, isolation, or deterioration of local communities. Non-profit organizations and the private sector are working to address social issues, but most of them are facing chronic shortage of money and staff. A new initiative was started in 2019, utilising dormant bank deposits for providing support to address social issues to which the national and local governments cannot respond one by one.
Country: Japan
Covid-19 Response
Open data on COVID-19 health situation and public services in local governments in Japan
The Tokyo metropolitan government provides nformation useful for civilians such as i) status of occurrence of COVID-19, ii) contact point for civilians who are concerned about their health such as “assistance provided to civilians by private organizations”. The Excel file shows information regarding services provided by private organizations including: i) type of the service provided by public organizations (e.g, education, medical services, communications, etc.); ii) to whom the service is…
Tokyo Metropolitan Government website, which provides real-time data on COVID-19, which is available as reusable open source code.
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