When we think of Japan, the technological development of the country is usually one of the main characteristics remembered. However, the Government is still trying to get rid of obsolete and impractical technologies, such as floppy disks and cassette tapes for recording official documents. Check now how the Japanese government is acting to abolish cassette tape and floppy disk from the country.
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Obsolete technologies in a technological country
With the advancement of technology, programs and data storage systems have been increasingly integrated into the world's reality. The speed for uploading information and the space for storage in the cloud or on hard disks is far superior to the parameters of floppy disks, CDs, MiniDiscs (MD) and cassette tapes.
However, the bureaucratization of the Japanese Government is making it difficult to use these storage systems. The government sphere requires the use of outdated and obsolete hard disks for storing official forms and business applications. Check out some problems and possible solutions to this impasse.
Is it possible to transition to the cloud?
Yes, it is possible. However, this task is far from easy. As these technologies have been present in the country for many decades, there is a large volume of tapes and disks that need to be read and copied to the cloud, one by one. This requires a lot of staff, and there are still technological limitations, as the time to transfer information is much longer than usual.
Legislation and bureaucracy: barriers to progress
Japanese law requires certain government data to be stored on cassette tapes or MiniDiscs. Thus, while the law is not reviewed and updated, it is impossible for this change to occur. For this reason, supporters of the technological update of the state machine started campaigns to mobilize citizens in favor of changing the Law.
A group was created to, by the end of 2022, prepare and publicize a technology replacement plan and, in this way, replace the 1,900 government procedures that need to be stored in not very advanced.
