May 20, 2022 Selection of Organizations to Implement Project on Digital Utilization Support for Users under FY2022 Initial Budget (Nationwide Implementation)

As a result of the public solicitation through the subsidized entity, Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory LLC., project-implementing organizations were selected for nationwide implementation of the project on digital utilization support for users under the FY2022 initial budget.

1. Project overview

The project on digital utilization support for users aims to support digital utilization by citizens, close the "digital divide," and realize a society in which all members can enjoy the benefits of digitalization, by subsidizing measures such as holding seminars to provide elderly people who may have trouble related to digital utilization with advice and consultation services concerning how to use smartphones for conducting administrative procedures, etc. online.
From Friday, April 15 through Thursday, April 28, 2022, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) solicited project-implementing organizations for nationwide implementation of this project through the subsidized entity, Deloitte Tohmatsu Financial Advisory LLC. (hereinafter referred to as the "executive organization").

2. Selection of organizations

As a result of the public solicitation, MIC received four applications for nationwide implementation and selected the following organizations based the evaluation results by the external experts' meeting set up under the executive organization.
Nationwide implementation: Four organizations

Name of applicant
1 NTT Docomo Inc.
2 KDDI Corporation
3 SoftBank Corp.
4 Rakuten Mobile, Inc.
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