Happy holidays from Japan!
In the end of 2015, Japanese govt has adopted the “Standard Terms of Use (Version 2.0)” which are compatible with CC-BY 4.0. Hiroichi and Tomo, vice chairman of OK Japan, had assisted as members of the government task force.
International Open Data Day is the largest event in Japanese open data communities. This year, there were 62 venue in Japan. That is the largest number in a country around the world.
Today, over 170 local governments are providing open data. National govt is boosting them by publishing guidelines. 170 is just 10% of all local governments in this country, but it includes 18 major cities. OK Japan members supports some of them, and we started to promote City Census of open data.
In 2016, we would like to accelerate standardization and utilization of data provided by national and local governments.
Thanks.
Masa
Open Knowledge Japan