Creating Innovation by Incorporating Emerging Technologies and Social Challenges

「また、One Bright KOBE と神戸トヨペット株式会社が民間企業とともに、神戸市との連携のもと始動した「神戸アーバンモビリティ・コンソーシアム」を通じ、TOTTEI および GLION ARENA KOBE を起点にウォーターフロントと三宮、新神戸、神戸空港などをつなぎ、人の移動を「まちの滞在、交流、消費」へと広げる次世代モビリティの都市実装を推進します。」

「In addition, we will accelerate efforts to implement next-generation mobility in Kobe's smart-city model and will work to diversify transportation across land, sea and air, unify data platforms and integrate IDs. We will implement urban functions that enhance mobility and enable stress-free movement, including the eVTOL (flying-car) port business already announced.」

「With a constant focus on practical implementation and substantive issues, we will promote businesses that could become social infrastructure for the 21st century and beyond, where the physical and digital worlds converge. These include the creation of new mobility services for the CASE era and smart venues that promote community development based on data utilization centered on GLION ARENA KOBE.」

「Generative AI has been received with an impact and surprise capable of shaking all social conventions, and is considered to have the potential to bring about major changes in society.」

「We will promote businesses that could become social infrastructure for the 21st century and beyond, where the physical and digital worlds converge. These include the digital government business aimed at realizing the digitalization of public administration, the creation of new mobility services for the C.A.S.E. era, and smart venues that promote community development based on data utilization centered on arenas.」

「WingArc1st develops cloud services using a range of data, including big data. By combining our channels and sales expertise for local governments with its specialized knowledge and experience in data utilization, we aim to build new services that promote the digitalization of public administration.」

「Going forward, we will continue to minimize the impact of COVID-19, promote higher MRR for SaaS in the cloud solutions business, and contain cost increases from base-pay increases through ongoing improvements in operating efficiency and cost reductions. By focusing on creating services that contribute to digital community development, including the digitalization of public administration, smart cities and new mobility services, we aim to restore business performance and generate significant earnings over the medium to long term while realizing our mission.」

「Research and development expenses for the six months ended the second quarter totaled ¥5,000 thousand. With the promotion of open government in the public and local-government sectors as its central focus, our group is advancing cloud services linked to “transparency,” “participation” and “collaboration,” from information dissemination by local governments to online administrative procedures. In addition to building a data management platform for the digital transformation of community development, our group is advancing technological development to create a city OS, essential to smart cities and super cities, as a new service capable of generating revenue.」

「In the car-sharing field using Kuruma Base, many companies have already expressed interest in response to the trend significantly changing the concept of automobile ownership from ownership to sharing. We are accumulating expertise and strengthening our solutions while advancing the conversion of cars into services against the backdrop of the spread of EV adoption driven by the move toward carbon neutrality (Note 8) and the expansion of the sharing economy.」

「Through digitalization in the fields of digital government, mobility, healthcare, and sports and culture, we will promote the creation of 21st-century social systems by expanding into smart cities based on a data-integration platform, or city OS.」

「In the car-sharing field using Kuruma Base, we have already received inquiries from many companies in response to the trend toward a fundamental shift in the concept of automobile ownership from ownership to sharing. Against the backdrop of the spread of EV adoption driven by the carbon-neutral movement (Note 8) and the expansion of the sharing economy, we are accumulating expertise as we develop the service and working to strengthen our solutions.」

「We are receiving considerable interest from companies in the provision of platforms and contract development centered on data utilization, against the backdrop of the spread of EV adoption driven by the carbon-neutral movement (Note 9) and the expansion of the sharing economy.」

「In the mobility services field, we operate an IoT platform business based on technology specializing in mobility. Going forward, we will use new expertise and technologies, including data analytics, blockchain and AI, to create social systems that address previously unresolved social issues through car sharing, ride sharing, non-life insurance, tourism support and safe-driving assistance.」

「We provide GaaS (Note 3) as a platform for digital government (Note 4).」

「GaaS (short for Government as a Service) is a resident ID platform provided by the company to digitalize administrative services using blockchain technology, the first of its kind in Japan.」

「Specifically, in the regional information cloud field, we will use our technology specializing in resident information to promote open government and open digital administration. We will seriously address not only the longstanding trends of “greater administrative transparency” and “participation in policymaking,” but also issues such as “implementing policies and services that are responsive to citizens,” “combating the decline in tax revenue resulting from population decline,” and “how policy can respond to increasingly diverse lifestyles.” Beyond disseminating the resident information necessary for daily life, we will promote the creation of new social systems that adapt to social diversity, including the privatization of public services and the sharing of regional resources.」

「In our business areas, a diverse range of technologies and trends, including “cloud first,” the spread of smart devices, open-data initiatives, changes in administrative procedures following the launch of the My Number Portal (Note 4), regional revitalization, the use of technologies ranging from data analytics (Note 5) to AI, the arrival of the IoT era in which hardware, physical objects and devices are connected to the internet, and the use of blockchain technology in non-financial fields, are having a significant impact on the market.」

「In our business areas, a diverse range of technologies and trends, including “cloud first,” the spread of smart devices, open-data initiatives, the launch of the My Number system (Note 4), regional revitalization, the commercialization of data analytics (Note 5), and the arrival of an era in which hardware, physical objects and devices are connected to the internet through IoT and M2M, are having a significant impact on the market. In this environment, we recognize the importance of cultivating innovation creatively within our company as well.」