The Nippon Foundation conducted an 17-year-old awareness survey on the theme of "digitization" on November 19-1000, 18, for 2020 men and women aged 11 to 13 years nationwide, as digitalization is further accelerating due to the corona disaster.
According to the survey, the evaluation of Japan's digitization was divided into "38.1% late" and "31.2% not late".Most of the reasons why I think that digitization is delayed are "delayed digitization in educational settings".It was mainly pointed out that online classes could not be handled when the school was closed due to Corona's illness. There were delays in the introduction of online lessons and differences in the response of each school, such as "public schools could not handle online lessons at the time of the declaration of emergency."
Those who want to promote digitalization were "online lessons 35.9%" and "quick support such as payment of benefits 24.8%".More than 6% of the national digitalization responded that it was "necessary", and "unnecessary" was only 5.8%.As for the reasons for needing, "maintenance / improvement of national power 52.8%" and "acceleration / simplification of administrative services 52.4%" exceeded 5%.He pointed out that the reasons for the delay in digitization of administrative procedures are "deep-rooted customs such as writing and face-to-face principles 34.1%" and "weakness awareness 31.8%".
Regarding the Digital Agency, which will be established in the fall of 2021, "expect" reached 2%, which is about twice as much as "not expect".The reasons for expectation are expectations for expertise such as "I think that digitization will proceed from a professional perspective" and "I think that it will progress if experts gather together."In addition, "because such a ministry was created, I think it makes sense for digitalization to progress." "At least the government is conscious of reforming." "A new ministry has been established. There are many evaluations of the establishment of ministries and agencies, such as "I hope that this will trigger reforms," and I have high hopes that the government will promote it.
On the other hand, as reasons that cannot be expected, he pointed out the age, such as "I have the impression that the officers are old for digitalization. We should hire young people who are strong in digitalization." There were many opinions that it would not be possible to expect the involvement of members of the Diet and human resources who are not familiar with digital, such as "I don't know if this is the case" or "It doesn't make sense for people who aren't used to computers to talk to each other."
What is needed to promote digitalization is "promotion of ICT education in school education" and "national initiative to promote digitalization" at the same rate of 25.6%.One in five respondents answered that they had the knowledge necessary for digitization, "23.5% who have it" and "51.2% who do not have it". It was weak.
