ＩＴ基本法、全面改正へ　「デジタル強靱化」目指す―政府新戦略

　政府は１５日、ＩＴ総合戦略本部（本部長・安倍晋三首相）などの合同会議を首相官邸で開き、新たなＩＴ戦略をまとめた。デジタル化を社会変革の原動力とする「デジタル強靱（きょうじん）化」の実現に向け、ＩＴ基本法を初めて全面改正する方針を明記。首相は来年の通常国会に改正案を提出するよう指示した。
　合同会議で首相は、新型コロナウイルス対策の現金給付などに手間取った経験を踏まえ、「国民本位で行政のデジタル化が進んでいなかった実態を痛感した」と強調。その上で、マイナンバー制度などについて「この１年間で集中的に改革を進める」と宣言した。（2020/07/15-19:15）

The Japanese government on Wednesday set out plans to fully revise the basic law on the promotion of information technologies for the first time, in order to accelerate social reforms through digitization.
   The government drew up a new IT strategy at the day's joint meeting of its IT strategy headquarters, headed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and other panels. Abe instructed the submission of a bill to amend the law to next year's regular session of the Diet, Japan's parliament.
   "I felt keenly the lack of citizen-oriented digitization of administrative procedures," Abe said, noting the government's failure to smoothly process online applications for cash handouts intended as a relief measure in the fight against the novel coronavirus epidemic.
   Abe said that the government will intensively advance reforms of the My Number social security and taxation identification system and other systems over the next year. "The biggest factor impeding citizen-oriented administrative digitization is dispersed information systems," he added, urging members to draw up by year-end guidelines for integrating relevant systems at the central and local governments.
   The new IT strategy lays out specific measures to beef up digitization by area. In the area of education, the government aims to make a personal computer or tablet device available to each student of elementary and junior high schools by the end of fiscal 2020.