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The Olympics were to make Japan a Digital Front-Runner: Could Covid-19 do it instead?
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For decades Japan has held the ambition of becoming an international leader in digitalization. The e-Japan strategy launched in 2001, was designed to make Japan an “IT-superpower”, and a government statement from 2014 dealt with Japan as “The World’s most advanced IT-nation 2016-2020”. Additionally, there have been numerous strategies for the digitalization of the Japanese public sector.
The 2020 Olympics were expected to showcase Japan as a digital front-runner, a Society 5.0. These Olympic plans can therefore be seen to parallel the 1964 Olympics, where Japan re-emerged as a modern, industrial nation and impressed the international community with its shinkansen trains, advanced architecture, etc.
The 2020 Olympics are now postponed, and Japan’s digital advancements no longer seem quite as impressive as planned either. However, there are signs that the major and sudden changes brought on by Covid-19 have highlighted several of the actual obstacles for promoting digitalization in Japanese society. The discussion on how best to deal with them has now begun.
How come Japan has faced such difficulties in achieving its goals in the digital sphere, and why might Covid-19 perhaps be a greater opportunity than the Olympics for making actual progress? These are the issues this presentation will attempt to clarify and address.
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Feb 25, 2021 10:00 AM in
Copenhagen
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Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. When: Feb 25, 2021 10:00 AM Copenhagen Topic: The Olympics were to make Japan a Digital Front-Runner: Could Covid-19 do it instead? Register in advance for this webinar: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YyY7UwsRSQiAvsGhY8gkgQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Karen Ejersbo Iversen (Senior Consultant @Agency for Digitization) Karen Ejersbo Iversen holds a Ph.D. in Japanese Economic Policy, is chief consultant at the Danish Agency for Digitisation, and former chairman of the Denmark-Japan Society. She has for several years studied Japanese public digitalization, also as guest researcher at Tokai University in the autumn of 2019. She is currently posted in Tokyo at the Embassy of Denmark in Japan as a sector specialist in digitalization. Alongside her work at the embassy, she continues her studies at Tokai University as guest researcher.
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