Public
Frontline Topics
- Digital government
- Not only simplifying administrative procedures, but also reforming the government itself with digital technology and public-private collaboration.
- Society 5.0
- Promote economic growth and solve social issues simultaneously based on a people-centric society where cyber and physical space are highly merged.
Issues
- Structural reforms
- How to break through hierarchical and bureaucratic government organization and fundamentally change the administrative operations.
- Addressing environmental and climate change issues
- How to fulfill the responsibility toward the global environment (carbon neutrality, circular economy, etc.) as a major developed country.
- Supercity vision
- How to realize next-generation cities with citizens that fundamentally change lives of citizens with AI and big data and take the leadership (e.g., developing the laws and urban operating systems, etc.).
- Digital education reforms
- How to develop the digital infrastructure (the GIGA School vision) and use big data to maximize the capabilities of the next generation.
- Public-private partnerships (PFIs and PPPs)
- How to establish public-private partnership schemes that make maximum use of private-sector funds and knowledge to maintain qualified public services.
Cases
- Strategy - Open Innovation -
- Making policy recommendations on open innovation
We made policies for the penetration of open innovation, and developed a scheme for Japanese companies based on a survey of advanced overseas case studies and recommended it as a new government system.
- Strategy - Space Industry -
- Developing a national strategy for space business expansion
In order to expand Japan's space business with a focus on space exploration, we developed future vision to aim for and effective measures for private companies to participate and achieve it.
- Digital - New Business -
- Building a new business model for regional revitalization
We explored and visualized opportunities for proposals for the government's digital regional development projects, and developed a business model based on government trends with a focus on new entrants in the e-sports domain.
- Operation - Emergency Aid -
- Implementing operations to address an urgently-required social benefits
We supported a private company that the government had outsourced social benefit work to during the pandemic and led an urgently vertical startup, including implementing operations and resolving conflicts.
- Operation - Procurement -
- Reducing government procurement costs
We collected and analyzed procurement performance data (e.g., security equipment) accumulated in each government ministry's e-procurement system and examined methods of reducing government procurement costs.
- Sustainability - low-carbon city -
- Designing a policy for low-carbon city development
We collected and analyzed a wide range of advanced examples of low-carbon city development to create future visions for sustainable urban areas and to organize policies for their development.
