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Education

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The government will promote the digitalisation of semi-public sector (education), which is closely related to people's lives and has a large impact on the private sector. The government will also work on the development of data-linkage and data-utilization systems to realize an affluent people's life in which optimal services are provided according to individual needs.

Overview

In order to realize the effective learning necessary for the coming age, it is important to provide education that meets the needs of each individual. It is necessary to promote not only the deployment of terminals through GIGA School Concept, but also the standardization of educational data and the provision of diverse educational materials through cloud computing. Looking ahead to the future collaboration of internal and external data from schools, relevant ministries and agencies will work as a team to promote such initiatives.

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Examples of initiatives

We are conducting a demonstration to support children's "learning in their own way" through the use of educational data. We will introduce the demonstration at Kagoshima Municipal Yawata Elementary School, where each child uses one terminal and learns at his or her own learning materials and pace, with the voices of children and teachers. Please check the video below for details.

Related Information

Related policy

Formulation of the Education DX Roadmap

Digital Agency, in cooperation with relevant ministries and agencies, revised the Educational Data Utilization Roadmap published in January 2022 (Reference: , which formulated the Educational Data Utilization Roadmap) based on changes in the situation, and formulated a new "Educational Digital Transformation Roadmap." 2022
During the period from May 15 (Thu.) to May 28 (Wed.), 2025 (2025), we collected opinions from a wide range of people.

Survey on GIGA School Concept

From July 1 to 31, 2021, we conducted a questionnaire survey of educators (students, teachers, parents, etc.) on GIGA School Concept and received approximately 217,000 comments from children and 42000 comments from adults. On September 3, we released the results of the survey together with a joint message from the relevant ministers.

Reports and Results

Public offering, etc.

Public Offering of Business Operators to Participate in Empirical Research for Realization of Data Linkage of Education-Related Data in Fiscal 2025

In the "Fiscal 2025 Empirical Research for the Realization of Data Linkage of Education-Related Data" (announced on February 3, 2025 (2025)), a research project of Digital Agency, Japan, we have decided to conduct a demonstration to complete the entire process of administrative procedures for admission selection for public high schools (including secondary schools) (hereinafter referred to as the "high school entrance examination") in electronic data that can be edited and calculated without the need for paper media (hereinafter referred to as the "digital completion"). We will publicly invite multiple business operators who wish to participate in this empirical research project.

Meetings, etc.

There is currently no applicable information.

Services utilizing digital technology in the field of education

Digital Agency has released an "Educational DX Service Map" so that boards of education and schools can quickly collect information on digital services in the educational field.