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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

From	Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
Subject	Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
Date	2024-07-03 18:25 -0700
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Since Spalls is so interested in our tech....  :)

"TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of 
floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, 
reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the 
bureaucracy.

By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 
regulations governing their use, except for one environmental stricture 
related to vehicle recycling.

"We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!" Digital Minister Taro 
Kono, who has been vocal about wiping out fax machines and other 
analogue technology in government, told Reuters in a statement on Wednesday.

The Digital Agency was set up during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, when 
a scramble to roll out nationwide testing and vaccination revealed that 
the government still relied on paper filing and outdated technology.

A charismatic figure with 2.5 million followers on X, Kono formerly 
headed the defence and foreign ministries as well as the COVID vaccine 
deployment, taking up his current role in August 2022 after a failed bid 
to become prime minister.

Japan's digitisation effort has run into numerous snags, however. A 
contact-tracing app flopped during the pandemic and adoption of the 
government's My Number digital identification card has been slower than 
it hoped, amid repeated data mishaps."

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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-07-03 18:25 -0700
  Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks "Werner P." <werpu@gmx.at> - 2024-07-04 12:58 +0200
    Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-04 11:06 -0400
      Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-07-06 12:45 +0200
        Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> - 2024-07-06 20:54 -0400
          Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-07-07 08:35 +0100
            Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2024-07-14 23:14 +0300
              Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-07-15 14:29 +0100
                Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2024-07-15 07:48 -0700
                Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Zersterer <nochsfentor@yahoo.com> - 2024-07-15 13:29 -0500
                Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks JAB <noway@nochance.com> - 2024-07-21 11:10 +0100
                Re: Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks Zersterer <nochsfentor@yahoo.com> - 2024-07-15 13:27 -0500

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