IT

LDP’s Administrative Reform Promotion Task Force calls for centralization of government IT procurement

(May 23, 2109, Nikkei Online) LDP’s Administrative Reform Promotion Task Force submitted their proposals to increase the efficiency of central government bureaucracy. In order to increase the producti ...

Japan to introduce registry system for government cloud service providers

IT specialists at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIC) have published a proposal (J) for a new registry system to better safeguard th ...

Government to change guidelines concerning telecoms procurement citing security concerns

Amid growing concerns about security risks, in particular about those made by Chinese makers such as Huawei Technologies, the Japanese government has started to prepare guidelines for the procurement ...

NIED Tender: Development of GNSS Data processing system

The National Reseach Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) is inviting companies to tender for a contract regarding the development of a GNSS data processing system. The tender is ...

Fujitsu sued for damages over faulty My Number system

The Japan Agency for Local Authority Information Systems (J-LIS) is planning to sue Fujitsu for damages due to persistent problems with the issuing of ‘My Number’ cards, the social and fiscal number s ...

Introduction of social security number big earner for Fujitsu Group

Nikkei IT-news service website IT-pro reports that the Fujitsu Group expects to earn close to half a billion euro’s on government-issued contracts related to the introduction of ‘My number’. ‘My ...