Digital Divide and Government DX
Digital Divide and Government DX
Issues at the intersection of digitalization and inequality, including gaps in My Number adoption, populations unreached by DX, and platform regulation.
33 items
Insights & Analysis
Before Restricting Children's Social Media by Age — How to Establish Age Is Still Sitting in the Open-Questions Column
EducationDigital & AIPolicy AnalysisJapan

Insights & Analysis
Fraud Losses in Japan Rose 98% in a Year While Cases Cleared Stood Still — Most Reports From People in Their 30s, Most Money From Those in Their 70s
Social IssuesPolicy AnalysisDigital & AIJapan
Insights & Analysis
Ten Riot Police, Twenty Minutes, a House That Had Not Collapsed — False Rescue Requests Went from 1 in 573 to 104 in 1,091
DisasterMisinformationInformation LiteracyPolicy Analysis

Insights & Analysis
The Digital Deficit and the 'Year of the AI Agent' — Three Structural Biases Settling in the Draft Phase of Japan's Digital Society Vision Council
Digital PolicyPublic PolicyJapanAI Policy
Insights & Analysis
Reclaiming "Social Vision" from the Language of State Policy — How ISVD's "Social Vision Design" Differs from the Digital Agency's "Digital Society Vision Council"
Digital PolicyPublic PolicyJapanSocial Issues
News
Digital Society Vision Council, 12th Meeting (May 22, 2026) — Briefing on the Next Priority Plan and ISVD's Reading
Digital PolicyPublic PolicyJapanAnnouncement
Insights & Analysis
The Day Digital Textbooks Became Official: Decoding Japan's 2026 Cabinet Decision
EducationDigital PolicyPolicy AnalysisDigital & AI
Insights & Analysis
The Reality After Japan's Digital Textbook 'Formalization': How the Three-Option System Entrenches Regional Inequality
EducationDigital & AISocial IssuesJapan
Insights & Analysis
Japan's Civil Court Digitalization, May 21, 2026 — mints Mandate and the Problem of the 7% Pro-Se Litigant
Legal & RegulatoryDigital & AIPublic PolicySocial Issues

Labs
From 'Merchants of Doubt' to 'Captors of Regulation' — Reading Big AI's Regulatory Capture through 27 Mechanisms
AgnotologyStrategic IgnoranceMisinformationPost-Truth
Insights & Analysis
A Civil-Law Approach to Unsolicited Sales Emails: Transferring Receiver Costs to Senders
Legal & RegulatoryEconomyDigital & AI

Labs
The 'Softification' of Public Services — A Paradigm Shift from Facilities to Services
PPP/PFIPublic PolicyPublic Asset RevitalizationDigital & AI
Insights & Analysis
"My Number Card Can't Be Used" — Generational Data on the Digital Divide
Digital & AIAging SocietyPublic PolicyJapan
Practice Guides
A Fundraising Model for Social Enterprises Using Google for Nonprofits
Google for NonprofitsAd GrantsNonprofit SetupGuide
Practice Guides
Ad Grants Getting Started: CTR Maintenance and Keyword Design Fundamentals
Ad GrantsGoogle for NonprofitsDigital & AIGuide

Insights & Analysis
Five Checkpoints for Spotting Graph Manipulation
EducationDigital & AIsociologyJapan
Insights & Analysis
Japan's 2030 Digital Textbook Mandate — Three Forces Behind the Cabinet Decision
EducationDigital & AIDigital PolicyPolicy Analysis
Insights & Analysis
Fresh Graduate SNS Info Leaks Are Not a "Personal Problem" — Reading the Failure of Organizational Design
Labor & EmploymentDigital & AIOrganizational DesignInformation Literacy
Practice Guides
How to Get Google Workspace for Free as a Nonprofit
Google for NonprofitsNPOGuideDigital & AI
Insights & Analysis
Suicide Is a 'Preventable Death' — Structural Approaches from Platform Doors, Generative AI, and Genetic Research
Mental HealthDigital & AISocial IssuesJapan
Practice Guides
How Ad Grants Gives Nonprofits Up to $10,000/Month in Free Search Advertising
Google for NonprofitsAd GrantsNPOGuide
Debates
The AI and Civic Participation Dilemma — Does Automating Public Input Expand Democracy?
Digital & AIPolicy MakingAI EthicsPublic Policy
Practice Guides
What Is Google for Nonprofits? A Complete Guide to Free Google Tools for Nonprofits
Google for NonprofitsAd GrantsNPOGuide
Insights & Analysis
Vocational Training in the Generative AI Era — Can Institutional Design Keep Up with Technology?
AI AdoptionLabor & EmploymentEducationPolicy
Insights & Analysis
Digital Divide 2026 — The Paradox of DX Leaving Behind Those It Should Serve
Digital & AIDigital PolicyInequalityJapan
Debates
Does DX Promotion Narrow or Widen the Regional Gap?
DebateDigital & AIRegionalInequality
Insights & Analysis
The Pitfalls of 'I Asked AI' — Authority Bias and the Hollowing Out of Knowledge
AI AdoptionCognitive ScienceAgnotologyInformation Literacy
Labs
The New Ignorance Produced by Algorithms — Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers
AgnotologyDigital & AIMisinformationInformation Literacy
Labs
AI Amplification of the Brandolini Asymmetry — When the Cost of Producing Lies Approaches Zero
AgnotologyBrandolini's LawMisinformationPost-Truth
Insights & Analysis
Who Draws AI's 'Red Lines'? — Anthropic vs. Pentagon Lawsuit Questions Governance Vacuum
AI EthicsNational SecurityUnited StatesLegal & Regulatory
Insights & Analysis
Cognitive Debt — What Happens to the Brain and Society When We Delegate Thinking to AI
TechnologyAI AdoptionCognitive ScienceSocial Issues
Insights & Analysis
Japan's Digital Platform Regulation — New Rules Drawn by the Transparency Act, Smartphone Act, and Information Platform Response Act
Legal & RegulatoryDigital PolicyJapan
Practice Guides
Why AI Adoption Stalls in Nonprofits — Three Structural Barriers and How to Overcome Them
WelfareDigital & AINPO SupportAI Adoption