Abstract
The research on the digitalization of local governments has been concentrated on the status quo and the progress of the digitalization of each local government, not on the interactions of them. If we take advantage of the interactions, we can expect effective enhancement of digitalization among local governments. Therefore we analyze statistically the data from the annual survey by Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication and figure out the status quo of the digitalization of local governments in Hyogo prefecture. Then we attempt to have implications for spillover effects from the perspective of similarity of digitalization between adjacent local governments. Finally, we argue the local characteristics in enhancing digitalization of local governments in Hyogo prefecture.
