city and ward governments and 33.0% of town and village governments to consider preparing BCPs, indicating that local governments have grown more conscious of BCPs irrespective of their size.

## (4) Expectations for cloud services

When we questioned local governments on their cloud service utilization, only 6.3% said they fully introduced cloud services. But cloud service users including partial users accounted for 45.0%. Local governments considering introducing cloud services accounted for 79.0% of the total. All prefectural governments are considering doing so (Figure 3-2-2-4). Particularly, 40.2% of all local governments are introducing or considering introducing cloud services more proactively in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake. Some 40% of city, ward, town and village governments are doing so. The Great East Japan Earthquake might have prompted local governments to introduce or consider introducing cloud services.

### 3. Private enterprises' change in thinking after the Great East Japan Earthquake

## (1) ICT and business continuity plans based on experiences with the Great East Japan Earthquake

When we questioned private enterprises about the introduction of BCPs in a poll, 20.8% of them said they had prepared BCPs, indicating that private companies have promoted their BCP preparation efforts more than the abovementioned local governments (Figure 3-2-3-1). But those that had prepared BCPs or were considering their preparation after the disaster were limited to some 40% of all responding enterprises, less than the 60% for local governments. Private enterprises' change in thinking after the disaster was smaller than that of local governments. Large companies have promoted their BCP preparation efforts more than small and medium-sized ones, indicating a BCP preparation gap between size groups.

Figure 3-2-2-3 State of BCP Preparation

(Source) MIC "Survey on ICT's Effects on Economic Growth (2012)"

Figure 3-2-2-4 Introduction of cloud services and consideration of cloud service introduction

| Introduced before the occurrence of the earthquake and actively promoting further introduction in light of the earthquake | Consideration for introduction had been made before the occurrence of the earthquake and actively promoting further consideration for introduction in light of the earthquake | No consideration for the introduction was made before the occurrence of the earthquake but actively promoting consideration for introduction in light of the earthquake | Introduced before the occurrence of the earthquake but no changes have been made in light of the earthquake | Consideration for introduction had been made before the occurrence of the earthquake but no changes have been made in light of the earthquake | No consideration for introduction had been made before the occurrence of the earthquake and no changes have been made in light of the earthquake
Overall (n=791) | 10.1 | 18.8 | 11.3 | 14.5 | 24.3 | 21.0
Prefectures (n=26) | 30.8 | 23.1 | 7.7 | 26.9 | 11.5 | 0.0
Cities and wards (n=379) | 11.3 | 18.5 | 9.0 | 16.4 | 25.1 | 19.8
Towns and villages (n=386) | 7.5 | 18.9 | 13.7 | 11.9 | 24.4 | 23.6

(Source) MIC "Survey on ICT's Effects on Economic Growth (2012)"

Figure 3-2-3-1 State of BCP Preparation (private enterprises)

(Source) MIC "A Survey on ICT's Effects on Growth (2012)"