Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held the second meeting of the Strategic Headquarters for the Promotion of an Advanced Information and Telecommunications Network Society in 2013 (61st in total) at the Prime Minister's Office.

Discussion took place on a new IT strategy, a draft roadmap for promoting open data in electronic administration, and information security policy.

Based on the discussion, the Prime Minister said,

"I have asked for the reorganization of IT policies with the aim of realizing the world's top-class IT society, including the utilization of IT. IT is at the heart of the growth strategy, and my instruction arose from a sense of crisis, so as to ensure that Japan does not fall behind the world.
Under the leadership of Minister Yamamoto and CIO Endo, the Chair of the Drafting Committee, experts carried out intense reviews and compiled a strategy in a short period of time. I would like to once again express my appreciation to everyone who was involved.
I commend the fact that unlike previous strategies, the new strategy gives specific targets and deadlines. For example:

1. Make government data accessible to the private sector, establish a portal site to promote data usage, and by 2015 bring data accessibility on par with other developed nations;

2. Support the establishment of a telework model to offer employees a selection of diverse working styles through telework, and by 2020 triple the number of companies offering telework as an option;

3. Speed up the Government's information system reforms to halve the number of systems from the current 1,500 by 2018. By 2021, reduce expenses by 30 percent.

We need no more wishful thinking or beautiful sentences. It is important that achievements are made one by one. If there is anything that can be done now, we should immediately go about it. I would like to first ask for the creation of a roadmap that is necessary to pursue this strategy, which will specify who will do what and when.
I would like to ask that under the leadership of Minister Yamamoto and the Government CIO, relevant Cabinet members work together to take steps, including what I have mentioned just now, in order to draw out the full potential of the private sector and produce concrete results towards the realization of the strategy."