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Mar 28, 2025
Mr. TAIRA, Minister for Digital Transformation, attended the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 January 24, 2025The Third Ministerial Japan-UK Digital Partnership Council held January 22, 2025Results of the Japan-ASEAN Minister for Digital Transformation Meeting January 20, 2025Results of the G20 Digital Economy Ministers Meeting October 1, 2024The Japan-UK Second Thematic knowledge sharing sessions on Digital Government On July 8 and 22, 2024 July 23, 2024Scrapping of Regulations Governing the Use of Floppy Disks and Other Recording Media July 19, 2024Digital Minister Kono visited Europe and the Middle East May 10, 2024Digital Minister Kono attended the OECD Ministerial Council Meeting 2024 May 8, 2004Digital Minister Kono had a meeting with European Commissioner Breton and signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on Digital Identities May 2, 2024Second Meeting of the Japan-EU Digital Partnership Council Held May 1, 2024On April 17, 2024, Japan and the EU jointly hosted the Japan-EU Public-Private Workshop inviting stakeholders from industry and academia. This workshop was held in advance of the 2nd Japan-EU Digital Partnership Council Meeting on April 30. Results of G7 Industry, Technology and Digital Ministerial Meeting March 18, 2024On March 4, 2024, Digital Agency attended “High-level roundtable on safe data flows” hosted by the EU. During the meeting, Parliamentary Vice-Minister Tsuchida discussed one of the main themes, "Maximizing safe data flows as a network." The meeting was attended by 15 countries, including the EU, US, UK, Japan, and others. Ministerial Session on the Future of Data Governance in Asia and Operationalisation of “Data Free Flow with Trust (DFFT) ” held February 7, 2024Mr. Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation attended the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2024 January 23, 2024Mr. KONO Taro, Minister for Digital Transformation, visited the U.S., U.K., France, Belgium and Germany January 19, 2024The Second Ministerial Japan-UK Digital Partnership Council held January 16, 2024Mr. KONO Taro, Minister for Digital Transformation, delivered speech at “IIT Bombay Techfest” at Indian Institutes of Technology January 4, 2024The Japan-Belgium Second Working Group on Information Communication Technology and Digital Transformation (ICT&DT) December 15, 2023G7 Digital and Tech Ministers’ Meeting Held December 1, 2023Mr. KONO Taro, Minister for Digital Transformation, attended the Trilateral Commission, 2023 Asia Pacific Group Regional Meeting November 30,2023Memorandum of Cooperation with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Digital Field October 12, 2023Memorandum of Cooperation with the Republic of Tunisia in the Digital Field October 11, 2023Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation attended the IGF Kyoto 2023 October 10, 2023Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation, visited Republic of India August 22, 2023Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation visited Jordan, Palestine and Israel July 26, 2023Memorandum of Cooperation with Jordan in the Digital Field July 20, 2023Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation visited Finland, Sweden and Estonia July 18, 2023Japan-EU Digital Partnership Council held July 3, 2023Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation, visited the Republic of Singapore June 26, 2023Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation, visited the United States May 8, 2023Results of the G7 Digital and Tech Ministers’ Meeting in Takasaki, Gumma April 30, 2023Signing of Memorandum of Cooperation with Ukraine in the Digital Field April 26, 2023Stakeholders’ Conference on Digital Technologies for Trust was held March 31, 2023Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation visited India and Thailand March 13, 2023Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation, delivered a keynote speech at the Masters of Digital 2023 March 20, 2023Mr. Taro Kono, Minister for Digital Transformation attended the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 (Davos) January 24, 2023Launch of the JAPAN-UK Digital Partnership December 7, 2022Launch of the Japan-EU Digital Partnership May 12, 2022Signing of Memorandum of Cooperation with the Republic of Estonia in the Digital Field May 6, 2022Launch of the Japan-UK Digital Group May 4, 2022Exchange of views with H.E. Mr. Ignazio CASSIS, President and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of the Swiss Confederation April 19, 2022Signing of Memorandum of Cooperation with the Kingdom of Denmark in the Digital Field November 24, 2021