IT Policy Proposals
Code-driven Manifesto: Auditing Local Gov Data and Systems (Kagawa case study)
Local gov systems run but hide data behind UIs; expose CSV/JSON, APIs, and common schemas to unlock value.
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Code-driven Check: Japan’s Open Data and the Machine-Readable Gap
Digital Japan has dashboards and rules, but PDFs and messy formats still block automated policy verification; mandate CSV/JSON, APIs, and dataset linting.
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Code Speaks: Testing Japan's Gov Data and Dashboards
Japan has great dashboards but inconsistent machine-readability. This report inspects e-Stat, Japan Dashboard, Kantei PDFs, and proposes API-first fixes and practical code examples.
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Code-Driven Manifesto: Evaluating Japan's Public Data Infrastructure
Japan's public data is available but fragmented: standardize encodings, metadata, and APIs to turn dashboards into verifiable policy.
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Code-Driven Manifesto: Evaluating Tokyo's Open Data from an Engineering Lens
Engineer-friendly review of Tokyo's open data: CSVs, rounding quirks, missing APIs, and practical fixes to make datasets production-ready.
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Code-Driven Manifesto: Auditing Japan’s Public Dashboards from an Engineer’s POV
Engineer-friendly audit of Japan's public dashboards (Japan Dashboard, e-Stat, RESAS): issues with PDFs, inconsistent APIs, and practical fixes like OpenAPI, JSON-stat, ETL and UX improvements.
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Code-Driven Manifesto: Auditing Japan's Public Data Stack
Japan's public data is promising but inconsistent; API-first publishing, DCAT metadata, and schema validation will unlock civic tech reuse.
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Code-Backed Manifesto: How Japanese Local Gov Data Can Become Actually Useful
Engineer-minded analysis of Japanese municipal open data: PDF traps, schema drift, and pragmatic steps to unlock civic value with APIs and clean CSVs.
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