municipalities.
The number of committees and councils and set up by prefectural governments has not changed from the previous year, but there has been an increase of 37 (29.6%) in those set up by municipalities.
2) Situation regarding establishment of conferences
The object of the survey was those standing conferences established to exchange and coordinate opinions and information on measures for promoting local information networks, whose members belong to prefectural governments, municipal governments, the private sector, etc.
Prefectural governments have set up 38 conferences and municipalities 233.
The number of conferences set up by prefectural governments has increased by 4 (11.8%) over the previous year and the number set up by municipalities has fallen by 2 (0.9%).
(9) Situation of the third sector, etc.
The situation of the third sector which was established to execute projects relating to promotion of local information networks is shown in Table 21, Table 22.
Of the total 496 enterprises in the third sector 357 are "joint-stock corporations", 113 are "foundations", 9 are "corporations" and 17 are