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Outstanding Initiatives to Promote Industrial Data Sharing Selected Under the Project Certification of Ouranos Ecosystem
May 9, 2025
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has selected the following two projects as outstanding initiatives to promote industrial data sharing under the Project Certification of Ouranos Ecosystem: (1) sharing of carbon footprint (CFP) and due diligence (DD) data across automotive and battery supply chains, and (2) sharing of electricity usage data.
1. Overview
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), together with the related ministries and agency, the Digital Architecture Design Center (DADC) under the Information Processing Promotion Agency (IPA), and other agencies, has been promoting the Ouranos Ecosystem, a cross-border initiative for interoperable data and system infrastructures among companies and industries. The aim is to achieve economic growth through innovation while addressing social issues, such as labor shortages, intensifying natural disasters, and the transition to a decarbonized society.
As Japan’s Ouranos Ecosystem are still in their early stage, METI has established the Project Certification of Ouranos Ecosystem and opened a call for outstanding initiatives that can serve as models for expanding business participation in cross-sectoral data sharing and for developing new cross-sectoral data sharing initiatives. This call is also intended to recognize and encourage best practices in such data sharing.
This certification is designed to select outstanding initiatives and use cases that align with the principle of the Ouranos Ecosystem: “Facilitating interoperable data sharing across different businesses through open data spaces, where data controllability and diversity in the services used by participants are ensured.”
Projects are selected under two categories: Ouranos Ecosystem Leading Project for initiatives that already provide data sharing functions as production services, and Ouranos Ecosystem Challenge Project for those aiming to provide such functions as services in the future.
2. Selected projects
The following two projects have been selected.
Data sharing project on carbon footprint and due diligence across automotive and battery supply chains
- Category:
- Ouranos Ecosystem Leading Project
- Project Owner:
- Automotive and Battery Traceability Center Association, Inc. (ABtC)
- Project overview:
- This project aims to achieve secure sharing of carbon footprint (CFP) and due diligence (DD) data across supply chains, while aligning with the EU Battery Regulation.
Electricity usage data sharing project
- Category:
- Ouranos Ecosystem Leading Project
- Project Owner:
- Secured Meter Data Sharing Association
- Project overview:
- This project collects electricity usage data generated every 30 minutes by about 80 million smart meters nationwide from transmission system operators (data provider members) and provides it to the association’s data user members. The data collected and provided in this process includes electricity consumption data, electricity feed-in records, and foundational data used in electricity trading.
3. Logo
The selected projects may use the following logos to highlight their roles as pioneering and ambitious initiatives aimed at addressing social issues and driving innovation through data sharing.
The Project Certification of Ouranos Ecosystem accepts applications on a rolling basis throughout the year. We look forward to receiving further project submissions.
Related Links
- Japan’s Initiatives for Interoperable Data Infrastructures Officially Named “Ouranos Ecosystem” (April 29, 2023)
- Ouranos Ecosystem (in Japanese)
Division in Charge
- Digital Economy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau
- Digital Strategy Office, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau