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I testified at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Health IT Standards Committee, Privacy and Security Workgroup, Hearing on the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). I learned that remarks at a hearing are called “testimony.” It sounds a little grandiose…

Date: Wednesday March 12, 2014
Time: 10:00 am to 2:45 pm ET

It was completely virtual. In addition to my participation from Tokyo, there was also a participant from Chile. I think the Japanese government should make more proceedings virtual in this way. It would set a good example for the private sector as well. I expect the materials will be published eventually.

The allotted time was exactly 5 minutes. 4 people spoke in succession, followed by questions and answers. The Q&A was quite lively. A witness who had been unable to make the previous session for various reasons testified in our session, and there were quite a few questions about that testimony. It was a little unfortunate that this shortened the time available for questions about our testimony.

Because this was my first experience, I submitted only my PowerPoint slides, but many of the other participants had sent in their prepared remarks. A real-time transcript appeared on screen, but it contained more errors than I expected[1], which made me realize that one really should send the remarks in advance. I do not know whether I will have another opportunity, but next time I would like to do so.

[1] My pronunciation may have contributed, but there were surprisingly many errors even in the remarks of native speakers…

(Change History)

2014/3/14 Changed “Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare” to “Department of Health and Human Services.”

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