Agreement with the private IT company in view of the spread of the corona infection on May 20, 18:59
In light of the spread of the new coronavirus infection, the government has signed an agreement with a private IT company to further promote the use of IT technology to provide information to the public.
On the 20th, the signing ceremony of the online agreement was held between the government and two IT companies, and Minister of Economic Rehabilitation Nishimura and President Hitoshi Yoshida of Microsoft Japan signed the agreement.
Based on the spread of the new coronavirus in the agreement, the government will provide technology such as "chatbot" in which AI companies automatically answer inquiries from AI companies, as well as technology for smooth video conferencing. I am going to receive it.
The technology of "Chatbot" has already been introduced on the homepage of the New Coronavirus Infectious Diseases Control Promotion Office in the Cabinet Secretariat, so the government will continue to increase the number of parties to the agreement and provide information to the public. We plan to further utilize the IT technology of.
At the signing ceremony, Minister Nishimura said, "I want to promote social change at a stretch. First of all, I want to start from the storm, so I want to automate and remote the work being done in the government office as much as possible."