U.S.-Japan E-Waste Initiative Factsheet

To help address the challenges posed by e-waste, the U.S. government, through the U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership (USASCP), is partnering with Japan‘s Ministry of Environment and the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to promote the circularity of small electronics and related materials in order to advance sustainable supply chains in ASEAN countries. The program will…

Smart City Model for Solving Social Problems in Malaysia

NTT Group to launch Asia's first Smart City PoC with Cyberview and Allo As part of the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' FY 2019 project "Research on Smart City Model for Solving Social Problems in Malaysia", based on the smart city initiatives which has been started with the City of Las Vegas, United…

President Advances Capacity Building with Japan, i.e. USASCP

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advanced the U.S. and Japan's Global Partnership. This partnership aligns Japan's public financing and capacity building initiatives with the U.S. Digital Connectivity and Cybersecurity Partnership and related initiatives such as the U.S.-ASEAN Smart Cities Partnership. To foster the digital economy, initial activities  include collaboration on smart cities with an initial, primary focus on ASEAN to improve…