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Last year, on November, I visited the Danish government. It was a follow-up to my reporting 3 years earlier, before the launch of OCES II [1]. My counterpart was Charlotte at the D…
Recently, it seems that My Number has been receiving increasing coverage in various media[1]. Leaving aside the fact that this is long overdue, I think it is better than receiving…
On August 15 and 16, the 1st NSTIC plenary meeting will be held in Chicago. Before the meeting, a preparatory webinar for participants will be held on August 2 local time. Details…
In both the East and the West, privacy is a word often discussed on the basis of a vague understanding. So here, I would like to take a little time to consider what privacy actuall…
First, please look at the following Cabinet Secretariat diagram concerning My Number. The item labeled “number” is the My Number. In this diagram, the My Number (“number”) is store…
I have begun looking little by little into Takeo City’s move of its website to Facebook. On August 2011, Takeo City in Saga Prefecture boldly “fully migrated” its municipal w…
Today I delivered the University of Tokyo’s Special Lecture on Applied Computer Science II, entitled: “Trust Frameworks in Cyberspace and the Personal Data Economy: From the…
In connection with the “Number”/My Number system (it remains regrettable that so many media outlets still call it the “Common Number”), calls such as “Let the private sector use th…
In discussions of a national ID system—the “Number” system, sometimes incorrectly called the Common Number system—one system component is called the “information-sharing platform.”…
Since attending the NSTIC governance workshop, I have been thinking about how procurement should work when there are multiple purchasers at a societal level, as represented by a co…
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