Socio-Informatics
Online ISSN : 2432-2148
Print ISSN : 2187-2775
ISSN-L : 2432-2148
Symposium Report
The Study of Risk Governance in Government Sector from the Viewpoint of Socio-Informatics
Tatsuro NIIKAWA
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2016 Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages 17-28

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Government and the public sector in the public governance have a responsibility for the risk management. Range of risk management has wider area of over the whole society, while the accountability for the implementation of risk prevention is required for the citizen, national and society in general. It is the risk governance to provide a framework for such risk management functions. In order to operate the risk governance properly, the advanced information technology that enables the collection, evaluation, analysis and transmission of vast information related to the risk is the essential, and also it has become necessary to share the information and outcomes of information processing. Risk governance in the public sector in the intelligent society is composed of risk communications in the organizational communication and inter-organizational communication, sharing information and its evaluation. Such a risk communication also plays an important role in the disaster control. Risk communication for the risk avoidance is a basic requirement of the disaster prevention, disaster mitigation, emergency relief, recovery and reconstruction through providing risk information and sharing that assessment of all aspects in the process of disaster. The risk communication is a focus of scientific analysis in the socio-informatics.

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