Unification of My Number Card and Driver's License Introduced ahead of schedule Prime Minister Suga November 10, 18:37
A meeting of government working teams to consider digitization of national and local governments was held, and Prime Minister Suga will advance the introduction of a mechanism to unify my number card and driver's license as much as possible from the end of the 8th year of the target Reiwa. I instructed.
In addition to Prime Minister Suga, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Takeda and Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission Okonogi attended the meeting.
In this, Prime Minister Suga said, "In order to realize the fact that all procedures can be done without going to the government office, which is commonplace for the people, the public and private sectors will be digitized and the" Digital Agency ", which will be the command tower, will be established. We are working on it. "
After that, he said, "What is needed now is the speed to respond to changes," and instructed the introduction of a mechanism to unify the My Number card and driver's license as much as possible from the end of the 8th year of the target Reiwa.
In addition, we requested that preparations be made with the aim of amending the law in the ordinary Diet session next year so that the functions of the Individual Number Card can be installed in smartphones during the 4th year of Reiwa.