Some development events and application contests have been initiated to promote Open Data and they have proven its effectiveness. The promotion of Open Data by local public entities should not be done only on a short-term basis, but added to the daily work schedule, considering the receptivity of the public sectors. However, most entities promote Open Data among only a few people and it is not cost effective.

Therefore, this study will establish Open Data promotion as part of the daily work of local public entities. We propose an Open Data of Tourism Event Information. First, we present a method for organizing tourism event information and a convenient format for the data. Second, the data will be made public as Open Data with LinkData.org. Third, a mobile application will be developed to provide data on various local tourism events.

To evaluate the management system of the tourism event information, the study will include an experiment using an application in the Cultural Path as a case study. The surveys confirm a number of problems related to Open Data promotion experienced by the local government. Thus, this research recommends the establishment of Open Data in the daily work schedule of the government.

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.

This article aims to consider the mode of risk management, generalized in the form of surveillance and audit, in modern information society, from the points of view of reflexive modernization theory and Luhmann's theory of social systems. Both surveillance and audit are key concepts to describe and analyze two inseparably related actions, risk production and risk management, as essential constituents of information society.

Reflexive modernization theory recognizes enhancements of both risk production and risk management as the essential antinomy of today's society. Luhmann's theory of social systems regards the enhancement of risk production is inevitable and necessary for modern society which is constructed by functionally differentiated systems. Especially modern technology systems, represented by information systems, have double-sided functions, production of new risks by themselves and conditions for possibility of risk management simultaneously. It can be said that, both actions of surveillance and audit, related to such double-sided function of information systems, materialize the possibility of risk management in information society as the form of “complementary observation” (K. P. Japp) of social systems.

Starting in the 1980s, both the government and corporations reformed their governance policies and procedures. In the government, “new public management” was introduced in the 1980s, followed by “new public governance” in the 1990s. The shift from new public management to new public governance did not simply replace old procedures with new ones. Instead, it included three distinct phases from new public management: separation, succession, and development. At the same time, reforms in corporate governance were being pushed through to deal with the increasing complexity and liquidity in the business world as well as a series of corporate scandals. The concept of internal controls has been expanded, and governance structures that focus on internal controls have been established. A comparison of public and corporate governance today reveals three common elements. First, both have incorporated internal and external controls and have formed structures that force the creation of autonomous entities. Second, both government and corporate organizations are being called upon to perform not only primary functions but also secondary (legal, ethical, and social) functions as well. Third, both are attempting to develop a common management information system for risk management. This leads us to the recognition that establishing modern governance involves five issues relating to information management: 1) collection and archiving issues, 2) conversion issues, 3) assessment issues, 4) sharing issues, and 5) design issues. Social informatics needs to clarify these information issues and their inherent social structures.

This paper aims to consider about the issues of governance in contemporary democracies. I presented several comments to three paper givers at the academic symposium on the “socio-informatics of governance.” I am here concerned with the key points of governance, that is, risk, inspection and accountability. Over the past few decades, a considerable number of studies about the “governance” have been conducted on the fields of the social science. Especially, academic concern with political and/or public governance has been growing for the last two decades. Traditionally, political science has dealt with the problem of governing. However, I do not emphasize that political science is a master science on the “governance.” The concept of governance also deals with the problem of governing. It is useful to join a discussion about the “socio-informatics of governance” from the view of political science. The critical question is how to explore the working of governance in democracies. In order to consider a relation between socio-informatics and political science, it is necessary to understand the definition of governance, approaches of governance, three key points about governance, and possibility of the “socio-informatics of governance.” The “socio-informatics of governance” will become a coupling device between socio-informatics and political science. It will offer a useful suggestion to consider the present situation of democracy.

Locally and globally, our society is faced with various problems. Actors with a variety of skills and expertise are tackling these problems. They are also organizing borderless collaborations and cooperation. This situation has been undermining the importance of the traditional binary distinction government/ civil society as well as the spatial distinction such as local/ global. This paper uses a concept of "societal governance" to describe the characteristics of governing in the recent situation. The adjective "societal" means a horizon of social order, which encompasses various functional domains such as politics, economy, science, law and the arts. Moreover, this paper proposes a new media category "societal media" which help efforts in societal governance in three aspects: advocacy, resource procurement, facilitating collaborations. Societal media have a role as liaison media that link actors to their supporters and collaborators. This paper formulates these two concepts as a pair-concept, thereby it proposes a new point of view of socio-infromatics which has been combining perspectives of social and information science. This proposal is a byproduct of a socio-infromatics' encounter with governance theory.