Japan To Change Laws Requiring Use Of Floppy Disks The Registry

The news emerged on Tuesday at Japan’s 5th Digital Society Conference, where a strategy for future digital government services was outlined. Japan looks set to follow the well-worn path of issuing a national identity card – called MyNumber in this case – to its residents to access various government services. But because such services by their nature involve uploading data to government agencies, the minister has launched a review of the laws governing this process of submitting information. This effort found more than 1,900 regulations that define how data can be shared with the government – ​​and as explained in this document [PDF in Japanese], many require the use of a floppy disk or CD-ROM. New techniques, such as uploading information via the Internet, are not described, so they are not technically allowed. Kono pledged to rewrite those regulations as soon as possible so that Japan’s digital plan can move forward unhindered. He is not the first to try to give Japan a dose of digital transformation. In 2021 former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga promised to reduce reliance on the use of stamps and fax machines. But Suga’s time at the top was short and his digital agenda was not delivered. Kono is younger and more tech-savvy, and even has two Twitter accounts, one in Japanese and one in English. At the Digital Concept conference he endorsed a plan that will see Japan’s government address tech skills shortages, improve its communications infrastructure and even implement Web3. While regulations requiring the use of floppy disks are undoubtedly archaic, Japan is not alone in requiring its citizens to use legacy technology. Just last year, South Korea ended the use of ActiveX controls on some government websites, putting Microsoft’s late-1990s effort to tackle Java to a well-earned rest. The Australian government used a flat records database to drive welfare payments in the late 2010s. China still uses “chop”, a type of seal that gives the holder official control of a company. Arm China’s rogue CEO managed to stay in power after being fired by keeping the company. In the US, the Internal Revenue Service manually handles millions of paper tax returns each year, with staff opening envelopes and hand-typing details from submitted forms rather than using automation and OCR. The Washington Post recently documented the chaos in a photo essay. US government websites, such as the PACER federal court docket and the Trademark Electronic Search System, offer an experience that would have looked clean and modern in the days of Netscape Navigator, the first web browser to gain widespread popularity in the mid-decade of 1990. Both appear to feature the thankfully deprecated HTML tag {BLINK}*. And of course mainframes are still sweeping the world: who could forget the governor of the US State of New Jersey asking for help from “cobalt” programmers – he meant COBOL – when the COVID-19 lockdowns created the need for a long old apps at scale? ® *Using the tag that flashes the text when viewed in a browser. We’ve used curly brackets here because our publishing system doesn’t like invalid tags in angle brackets. As appropriate.

title: “Japan To Change Laws Requiring Use Of Floppy Disks The Registry Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-30” author: “Anthony Pella”

The news emerged on Tuesday at Japan’s 5th Digital Society Conference, where a strategy for future digital government services was outlined. Japan looks set to follow the well-worn path of issuing a national identity card – called MyNumber in this case – to its residents to access various government services. But because such services by their nature involve uploading data to government agencies, the minister has launched a review of the laws governing this process of submitting information. This effort found more than 1,900 regulations that define how data can be shared with the government – ​​and as explained in this document [PDF in Japanese], many require the use of a floppy disk or CD-ROM. New techniques, such as uploading information via the Internet, are not described, so they are not technically allowed. Kono pledged to rewrite those regulations as soon as possible so that Japan’s digital plan can move forward unhindered. He is not the first to try to give Japan a dose of digital transformation. In 2021 former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga promised to reduce reliance on the use of stamps and fax machines. But Suga’s time at the top was short and his digital agenda was not delivered. Kono is younger and more tech-savvy, and even has two Twitter accounts, one in Japanese and one in English. At the Digital Concept conference he endorsed a plan that will see Japan’s government address tech skills shortages, improve its communications infrastructure and even implement Web3. While regulations requiring the use of floppy disks are undoubtedly archaic, Japan is not alone in requiring its citizens to use legacy technology. Just last year, South Korea ended the use of ActiveX controls on some government websites, putting Microsoft’s late-1990s effort to tackle Java to a well-earned rest. The Australian government used a flat records database to drive welfare payments in the late 2010s. China still uses “chop”, a type of seal that gives the holder official control of a company. Arm China’s rogue CEO managed to stay in power after being fired by keeping the company. In the US, the Internal Revenue Service manually handles millions of paper tax returns each year, with staff opening envelopes and hand-typing details from submitted forms rather than using automation and OCR. The Washington Post recently documented the chaos in a photo essay. US government websites, such as the PACER federal court docket and the Trademark Electronic Search System, offer an experience that would have looked clean and modern in the days of Netscape Navigator, the first web browser to gain widespread popularity in the mid-decade of 1990. Both appear to feature the thankfully deprecated HTML tag {BLINK}*. And of course mainframes are still sweeping the world: who could forget the governor of the US State of New Jersey asking for help from “cobalt” programmers – he meant COBOL – when the COVID-19 lockdowns created the need for a long old apps at scale? ® *Using the tag that flashes the text when viewed in a browser. We’ve used curly brackets here because our publishing system doesn’t like invalid tags in angle brackets. As appropriate.

title: “Japan To Change Laws Requiring Use Of Floppy Disks The Registry Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-13” author: “Donna Cummings”

The news emerged on Tuesday at Japan’s 5th Digital Society Conference, where a strategy for future digital government services was outlined. Japan looks set to follow the well-worn path of issuing a national identity card – called MyNumber in this case – to its residents to access various government services. But because such services by their nature involve uploading data to government agencies, the minister has launched a review of the laws governing this process of submitting information. This effort found more than 1,900 regulations that define how data can be shared with the government – ​​and as explained in this document [PDF in Japanese], many require the use of a floppy disk or CD-ROM. New techniques, such as uploading information via the Internet, are not described, so they are not technically allowed. Kono pledged to rewrite those regulations as soon as possible so that Japan’s digital plan can move forward unhindered. He is not the first to try to give Japan a dose of digital transformation. In 2021 former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga promised to reduce reliance on the use of stamps and fax machines. But Suga’s time at the top was short and his digital agenda was not delivered. Kono is younger and more tech-savvy, and even has two Twitter accounts, one in Japanese and one in English. At the Digital Concept conference he endorsed a plan that will see Japan’s government address tech skills shortages, improve its communications infrastructure and even implement Web3. While regulations requiring the use of floppy disks are undoubtedly archaic, Japan is not alone in requiring its citizens to use legacy technology. Just last year, South Korea ended the use of ActiveX controls on some government websites, putting Microsoft’s late-1990s effort to tackle Java to a well-earned rest. The Australian government used a flat records database to drive welfare payments in the late 2010s. China still uses “chop”, a type of seal that gives the holder official control of a company. Arm China’s rogue CEO managed to stay in power after being fired by keeping the company. In the US, the Internal Revenue Service manually handles millions of paper tax returns each year, with staff opening envelopes and hand-typing details from submitted forms rather than using automation and OCR. The Washington Post recently documented the chaos in a photo essay. US government websites, such as the PACER federal court docket and the Trademark Electronic Search System, offer an experience that would have looked clean and modern in the days of Netscape Navigator, the first web browser to gain widespread popularity in the mid-decade of 1990. Both appear to feature the thankfully deprecated HTML tag {BLINK}*. And of course mainframes are still sweeping the world: who could forget the governor of the US State of New Jersey asking for help from “cobalt” programmers – he meant COBOL – when the COVID-19 lockdowns created the need for a long old apps at scale? ® *Using the tag that flashes the text when viewed in a browser. We’ve used curly brackets here because our publishing system doesn’t like invalid tags in angle brackets. As appropriate.

title: “Japan To Change Laws Requiring Use Of Floppy Disks The Registry Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-24” author: “Joshua Bloom”

The news emerged on Tuesday at Japan’s 5th Digital Society Conference, where a strategy for future digital government services was outlined. Japan looks set to follow the well-worn path of issuing a national identity card – called MyNumber in this case – to its residents to access various government services. But because such services by their nature involve uploading data to government agencies, the minister has launched a review of the laws governing this process of submitting information. This effort found more than 1,900 regulations that define how data can be shared with the government – ​​and as explained in this document [PDF in Japanese], many require the use of a floppy disk or CD-ROM. New techniques, such as uploading information via the Internet, are not described, so they are not technically allowed. Kono pledged to rewrite those regulations as soon as possible so that Japan’s digital plan can move forward unhindered. He is not the first to try to give Japan a dose of digital transformation. In 2021 former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga promised to reduce reliance on the use of stamps and fax machines. But Suga’s time at the top was short and his digital agenda was not delivered. Kono is younger and more tech-savvy, and even has two Twitter accounts, one in Japanese and one in English. At the Digital Concept conference he endorsed a plan that will see Japan’s government address tech skills shortages, improve its communications infrastructure and even implement Web3. While regulations requiring the use of floppy disks are undoubtedly archaic, Japan is not alone in requiring its citizens to use legacy technology. Just last year, South Korea ended the use of ActiveX controls on some government websites, putting Microsoft’s late-1990s effort to tackle Java to a well-earned rest. The Australian government used a flat records database to drive welfare payments in the late 2010s. China still uses “chop”, a type of seal that gives the holder official control of a company. Arm China’s rogue CEO managed to stay in power after being fired by keeping the company. In the US, the Internal Revenue Service manually handles millions of paper tax returns each year, with staff opening envelopes and hand-typing details from submitted forms rather than using automation and OCR. The Washington Post recently documented the chaos in a photo essay. US government websites, such as the PACER federal court docket and the Trademark Electronic Search System, offer an experience that would have looked clean and modern in the days of Netscape Navigator, the first web browser to gain widespread popularity in the mid-decade of 1990. Both appear to feature the thankfully deprecated HTML tag {BLINK}*. And of course mainframes are still sweeping the world: who could forget the governor of the US State of New Jersey asking for help from “cobalt” programmers – he meant COBOL – when the COVID-19 lockdowns created the need for a long old apps at scale? ® *Using the tag that flashes the text when viewed in a browser. We’ve used curly brackets here because our publishing system doesn’t like invalid tags in angle brackets. As appropriate.