Problems in establishing information infrastructures for disaster prevention and mitigation.

Abstract

Affected by natural disasters, Japan has been implementing various anti-disaster measures including those against earthquakes, tsunamis, storms and floods. In consequence Japan is equipped with a large number of information infrastructures which target disaster prevention and mitigation.
However, such information infrastructures seemed to have been insufficient to ensure that disaster-related information is gathered and reaches to the citizens.
This study provides a survey of audit findings reported by Board of Audit of Japan which treated information infrastructures for disaster prevention and mitigation, and considers problems of such infrastructures.