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Toyama city (located on the Sea of Japan coast in Chubu region) and NEC Corporation announced that they had concluded a “comprehensive cooperation agreement on smarting cities by ICT”.
The Agreement aims to improve civil welfare and create new social value as Toyama City and NEC promote more sophisticated data-based smart cities and SDGs related to town development.
Through this cooperation agreement, the government will promote smart cities and the utilization of open data, solve regional issues using IoT and ICT, and develop local human resources.
In the future, Toyama City and NEC will promote ICT-related measures that will help resolve social issues in close coordination and cooperation.
By effectively utilizing the “Toyama City Smart City Promotion Base,” which was established to realize smart cities, the company will accelerate its efforts to create communities through public-private cooperation using ICTs, with the goal of achieving “Society 5. 0.”
Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/02/19/nec-17/