Society 5.0 as Digital Strategy for Scalability: Tamba’s COVID-19 Vaccination Management System and Its Expansion

ABSTRACT

Society 5.0, Japan’s innovation policy, aims to build a human-centered society with information technologies. However, it is not easy to satisfy human-centered design and country wide or global scalability. In this paper, we discuss ways to realize a regional digital strategy of enhancing the services provided by utilizing data provided by various stakeholders outside of the region with case analysis of COVID-19 vaccine management system in Tamba city with lens of the adaptive integrated digital architecture framework (AIDAF). Society 5.0 Reference Architecture and related specifications help municipalities to enhance their digital strategy to comply with global environment. It is especially important to realize alignment in technology architecture of trust framework and data architecture. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.