20th Waseda-IAC World Digital Government Ranking 2025
Waseda University Institute of Digital Government in Japan, in cooperation with the International Academy of CIO (IAC) has released the 20th Waseda World Digital Government Rankings 2025, which marks digital transformation in advanced digital 66 countries/economies. This report represents the 20th consecutive year of monitoring and surveying worldwide digital government development with 10 Indicators. It provides various information and data on both Digital Innovation and utilization of AI as well. https://idg-waseda.jp/pdf/2025_Digital_Government_Ranking_Report.pdf
CICC TOKYO DAYORI vol.104
Japan is conducting its once-every-five-years national census based oninformation as of October 1st this year. This statistical survey targetsall individuals and households residing in Japan. Its purpose is toaccurately grasp the actual state of society, including populationstructure, household composition, employment status, and nationality.The survey results are utilized in the administrative sector formeasures addressing the declining birthrate and aging population,disaster countermeasures, revising the number of seats for electedrepresentatives in electoral districts, and calculating local allocationtaxes. In the private sector, they inform commercial facility expansionplans and marketing strategies. In the academic field, they supportresearch on population dynamics and economic analysis. Previously, part-time surveyors appointed by the Minister of InternalAffairs and Communications visited […]
CICC TOKYO DAYORI vol.103
Without realizing it, I have come to rely on mobile xxx in my dailylife. Mobile banking, mobile payments, etc. Both are very convenient. Mobile banking can be used anytime, anywhere.It seems like a distant memory to be constrained by bank opening hoursand ATM availability. Mobile payments are not only convenient because I can pay with just atouch, but it's also nice to earn cash points.Even if those points earned each time are small, they will add up to aconsiderable amount before I know it, and I can use them for shopping.No matter how much cash I spend, I will not get such benefits. According to Japanese government, the ratio of […]
Office closure due to summer break
Please be advised that our office will be closed for summer break from 9thAugust to 17th August, 2025.We will resume work on 18th August.
CICC TOKYO DAYORI vol.102
On the Essential Values of the Japanese People In recent years, Japan has been facing a serious labor shortage invarious industries due to the declining birthrate and aging society. The same problem is becoming more serious in the IT industry, where theMinistry of Economy, Trade and Industry estimates that there will be ashortage of 790,000 digital workers by 2030. In order for Japanese IT companies to secure a stable supply of digitalhuman resources, it is widely expected that they will utilize digitalhuman resources from overseas. I also expect that digital talent from Asian countries will play anactive role in Japan.The biggest barrier for overseas digital talent to work with Japan […]
Office closure due to the “Golden Week” holidays in Japan
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The Dialogue on cooperation activities between the Japanese Digital Creative Industries and the Delegation of the Ministry of Digital Technologies/the Creative Association from Uzbekistan
Date 2025/10th-14th/March Release The delegation led by Mr. Sakurai, Advisor to the Minister of Digital Technology (MDT) of the Republic of Uzbekistan and Mr. Abduvali Khaydarov, President of Uzbekistan Creative Association (UzCA) visited Japan from March 10 to 13, 2025. The visit was conducted based on the “Memorandum of Intention (MoI) for Digital Cooperation” signed between CICC and MDT in January 2024, MDT,UzCA visited companies, industry associations, universities, educational institutions, and government agencies to exchange the view of current status of Digital Creative Industry both in Japan and Uzbekistan, as well as future cooperation in this area. Under support from CICC, the participants visited Pole to Win Corporation, Digital Knowledge […]
CICC TOKYO DAYORI vol.101
From January 13th to 18th, 2025, we, CICC, invited key digital strategyfigures from IT-related governments and other organizations from sevenAsian countries - Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand,and Vietnam - to Japan, and held the "Digital Strategies in AsianCountries" conference on January 16th, which was well received.https://cicc.or.jp/english/20250130-01/ Overall, I got the impression that all seven countries are steadilymoving towards digitalization through their individual policies, underthe vision set forth by their governments. Of course, this was alsobecause each presentation was very well put together.What about the situation in Japan now, on the other hand?The integration of health insurance cards and My Number cards is stillbeing criticized, and more recently, there have […]
CICC TOKYO DAYORI vol.100
February 3 is the first day of spring, according to the old-styleJapanese calendar.In fact, it is cold today far from spring. But Okamezakura, early-blooming cherry trees or SAKURA are preparingtheir buds and begins to bloom from the end of February to the beginningof March near my office in Tokyo. There are many varieties of cherrytrees, and the most famous cherry tree in Japan is the Somei-yoshino.They usually begin booming in late March. According to the cherry blossom Somei-yoshino forecast for 2025announced by a weather information service company at the end ofJanuary, blooming will begin in Tokyo on March 21, followed by Fukuoka,Kochi, Hiroshima, and Yokohama on March 22. After that, […]
Report of Conference on Digital Strategies in Asian Countries
Date January 16, 2025 Venue AB Hall, 2nd Floor, JJK-Kaikan, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Event Results Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization (CICC) invited keypersons in digital strategies from ASEAN and South Asian governments and other organizations to Japan. The seven participating countries were Brunei, Cambodia, Lao, Myanmar, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam. At the conference, representatives from each country gave presentations on their country's digital strategies, followed by a Q&A session and exchange of opinions. We would like to thank all conference participants as well as the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), ASEAN-Japan Centre and the Institute of Digital Government, Waseda University for their support. In addition, this conference […]