The Japanese authorities stopped utilizing floppies

The Japanese authorities has fully stopped utilizing floppies a month in the past. Till final month, the federal government nonetheless required folks to offer paperwork on a flip.

Japan had a minimum of 1,034 laws mandating using floppies. By the center of final month, the federal government had suspended all however one in every of them, he wrote Reuters. Taro Kono, Japan’s Minister of Digital Affairs, has introduced that the final line has now been deleted. “We gained the battle towards floppies on June 28,” he says.

He already began this struggle in 2021, when the Digital Company was established. On the time, Japan needed to rapidly set up a verification and vaccination course of as a result of corona pandemic, but it surely turned out that the federal government nonetheless typically relied on paper paperwork and outdated expertise.

Kono has made it his mission to cease using this outdated expertise. Along with floppies, he additionally needs to get rid of fax machines, studies the BBC.