Japan Digital Advisory Council for Strategy (JDACs) is pleased to announce the appointment of
Mr. Shotaro Suzuki as an advisor/advisory board member.
Mr. Suzuki has served as Assistant to the Government CIO, Cabinet Secretariat (concurrently Assistant to the CIO, Ministry of Justice), PM of Digital Agency (concurrently Digital Supervisor, Financial Services Agency), and
currently Digital Supervisor and Chief Information Security Advisor, National Printing Bureau, Independent Administrative Agency, Japan. As an advisor to the National Printing Bureau,
he continues to support Japan’s public DX at the forefront of the industry.
He has also been engaged in neutral technical advisory and
technology awareness activities for several foreign IT companies for many years, focusing on technology standardization and interoperability, and has been a part-time lecturer at several national, public, and private universities, where he has been continuously involved in education and human resource development linking [br-md br-lg]
He has also been continuously involved in education and human resource development connecting digital technology and social implementation.
Our extensive experience across industry, academia, and government is deeply aligned with JDACs philosophy of neutrality, verification, and social integrity.
In the future, Mr. Suzuki will help
JDACs in shaping its thinking and enhancing its social credibility by providing advice on digital strategy, DX and AI utilization from a third-party perspective.
Comment from Mr. Shotaro Suzuki
While digital technology has become an integral part of the infrastructure of government, business and society,
decisions regarding its implementation and utilization are becoming more sophisticated and complex every year.
As I myself have been involved in the evaluation of digital measures and DX promotion from both the public and private sectors, I have seen many situations where decision-making that proceeds without “a neutral point of view that is not biased toward any side” and “verifiability to explain the basis for decisions” can become a risk for the organization and society. We have seen many situations where decisions made without an “unbiased and neutral point of view” and “verifiability to explain the basis of the decision” can become a risk to the organization and society.
I feel that JDACs’ concept of evaluating and
advising digital strategies as a third party independent of interests is exactly the role needed in today’s society.
As an advisor, I would like to use the knowledge I have gained in public DX, technology standardization, and education to
contribute in some small way to the establishment of a culture of digital decision-making with more integrity and accountability in Japanese society.