Japan: Japan’s government has finally eliminated the use of puffy plates in all its systems, two decades since their era, reaching a extended- awaited step in a strategy to modernise the bureaucracy.
With the exception of one climate requirement related to car recycling, the Digital Agency had already removed all 1, 034 of their use by the middle of next month.
” We have won the war on floppy disks on Jun 28″! Taro Kono, the minister of online communications, told Reuters in a speech on Wednesday that he had been outspoken about eliminating fax machines and another analogue technology in the government.
The Digital Agency was established in the COVID-19 epidemic in 2021 when a rush to implement global testing and vaccinations revealed that the authorities also relied on paper documents and archaic technology.
Kono, a charismatic figure with 2.5 million followers on X, formerly oversaw the defense and foreign ministries as well as the COVID-19 vaccine rollout before taking up his current position in August 2022 after a failed bid to be prime minister.
Japan’s automation effort has run into many obstacles, yet. A contact-tracing application failed during the pandemic, and the government’s use of its My Number electronic identification card has grown more slowly than it should due to repeated data breaches.