November 13, 2020
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ITOCHU Techno Solutions Corporation
Japan Digital Design, Inc.
JCB Co., Ltd.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation
BlockBase, Inc.
ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Information Technology Center (Osamu Nakamura, Director) and the Blockchain Laboratory of the ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ Research Institute at SFC (Jun Murai, Director and Shigeya Suzuki, Associate Director & Technology Officer) commenced a demonstration experiment for a next-generation digital identity platform issuing certificates, such as enrollment certificates and certificates of expected graduation to ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ students via smartphone applications in October 2020. The experiment is being conducted jointly with five companies; ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (Ichiro Tsuge, President & CEO), Japan Digital Design, Inc. (Takashi Uehara, CEO) , JCB Co., Ltd. (Ichiro Hamakawa, President & CEO), Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corporation (Mitsuyoshi Kobayashi, President), and BlockBase, Inc. (Taiju Sanagi, CEO) and also in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many universities to move more and more of their classes and administrative procedures that had traditionally been conducted in-person online. Following this trend, there is a need to create a system enabling current students and graduates to request various certificates online.
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