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Announcement of the Result of the Call for the FY2021 Tertiary Supplementary Budget's Asia Digital Transformation (ADX) Promotion Project
August 26, 2022
The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) opened a call for applicants for its Asia Digital Transformation (ADX) Promotion Project, which was established under the FY2021 Supplementary Budget. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) hereby announces that following the call, JETRO has selected 28 projects as successful applicants from among the ones it had received for ASEAN by June 2022.
1. A new dynamism of digital transformation in Asia
- As economic development progresses, ASEAN countries are facing various economic and social challenges and experiencing a rapid expansion of business based on using digital technologies to solve them. This has been driven in part by the need for non-face-to-face and contactless services, which was triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to promote the accomplishment of business-based digital transformation (DX) in society and accelerate the digitalization of economic society is a critical policy issue for emerging Asian nations.
2. Outline of the project
- This project aims to support Japanese companies with conducting demonstration projects that will contribute to solving local social challenges through collaboration with ASEAN countries' companies by utilizing technologies, expertise, and other advantages that Japanese companies have. The project's objectives are to promote the accomplishment of DX in society, and at the same time, actively contribute to the further study of measures to spread DX in cooperation with the governments and industries in ASEAN and India, and to establishing the systems necessary to maximize DX's potential of solving social challenges.
- From May 9 (Mon.) to June 30 (Thu.), 2022, JETRO opened a call for applicants and examined 57 applications that it received. As a result, it has adopted 28 projects as successful applicants from a wide variety of fields, including medical/nursing care, transportation/mobility, and agriculture/fisheries.
Related page on the JETRO website: URL(in Japanese)
This project will be implemented based on contributions allocated by METI to the AEM-METI Economic and Industrial Cooperation Committee (AMEICC). The contributions were established under the FY2021 Supplementary Budget. AMEICC commissioned the project to JETRO. As the organizing secretariat, JETRO has been opening calls, adopting applicants, and supporting successful ones with conducting their projects.
Division in Charge
Asia and Pacific Division, Trade Policy Bureau