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.
41 items
Insights & Analysis
When AI Helps You Shop, How Do You Confirm an Order and Follow Up?
AI GovernanceDigital PolicyEconomyEvidence
Insights & Analysis
Japan's Proposed Information Curriculum: How Will Teachers Prepare?
EducationAI PolicyDigital PolicyInformation Literacy
Insights & Analysis
Zentsuji's electronic voting: how can voters who cannot read the screen check a choice?
Digital & AIAccessibilityDemocracyLocal Government
Insights & Analysis
Whose Act Is an AI Transaction? Reading the First Council’s Draft Issues
Digital & AIAIGovernancePolicy Analysis
Insights & Analysis
Can Verified Provenance Establish That a Disaster Photograph Is True?
DisasterMisinformationInformation LiteracyDigital & AI
Insights & Analysis
Gennai OSS: Is Published Code Enough for Deployment?
Digital & AIAIGovernancePolicy Analysis
Insights & Analysis
Children's social media: what changes after an age check? Features and correction
Digital & AIEducationPublic PolicyChildren
Practice Guides
TechSoup and Google for Nonprofits: How the Application Routes Differ in Japan
Google for NonprofitsNPOGuideDigital & AI
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
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
Agnotology Lab — Structural Analysis of Informational Injustice and Counter-Design
AgnotologyEpistemic InjusticeMisinformationInformation 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