UK-Japan Digital Partnership
A framework for deeper UK-Japan collaboration across digital infrastructure and technologies, data, digital regulation and digital transformation.
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Update: UK-Japan Digital Partnership Progress Report published
On 16 January 2024, the Japan-UK Digital Council met to discuss the implementation of the Japan-UK Digital Partnership. The Council approved a Progress Report, which outlines how the governments of both countries have worked together to deepen collaboration under the four pillars of the Partnership:
- Digital Infrastructure and Technologies
- Data
- Digital regulation and standards
- Digital transformation
Background
The UK-Japan Digital Partnership was launched on the 7 December 2022. Implementation is led by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), Japan’s Ministry for Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC), Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and Japan’s Digital Agency (DA).
Under the Partnership, these ministries will enhance bilateral cooperation across fourteen areas, with input from other ministries as required:
- telecoms diversification
- increasing cyber resilience
- semiconductors
- artificial intelligence
- championing data flows
- regulatory cooperation
- data innovation
- online safety
- digital markets
- digital technical standards
- internet governance
- digital government transformation
- digital identity
- ensuring the benefits of digital technologies reach all parts of our societies
The Partnership is based on shared values and builds on existing collaboration arrangements. Progress will be driven by an annual Director General-level steering board, which will monitor progress and make recommendations to an annual Ministerial Council.
Last updated 18 January 2024 + show all updates
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UK-Japan Digital Partnership progress report published.
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