Instead of uploading just three bits per four years – that’s called voting, by the way – we can upload much more bits when it comes to public policy through presidential hackathons, sandboxes, e-petitions, participatory budgets, you name it. For me, personally, as a digital minister, I always say that this is not the same as the IT minister, because people in Japan often confuse the two. [laughs]

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