Our encognize Japan X-Tech Force has continued without any interruption (yet remotely) their business development efforts on FinTech and InsurTech X HealthTech related solutions from their existing business partners portfolio.
Additionally, encognize has engaged in new, diverse digital innovation-focused activities over Q3:

• .synaptik service: encognize, a Service Partner of Plug And Play Japan, was privileged to be invited to join the PnP Japan Fall Summit 2020 as guest contributor on September 28, Expo Day 1, and to discuss the presentations with the Brand & Retail APAC/Europe program participants for the benefit of the Expo audience.
• .fastforward service: on July 16, encognize announced its collaboration with FACIL'iti, a French-Japanese company offering a secure, cost-efficient, non-invasive and privacy compliant solution that helps make the web more inclusive.
• .lab4-203 service: as part of an EdTech project aimed at improving the learning of foreign languages on-line or with an app through the use of adaptive learning techniques, a first functional prototype of ELLA (E.nhanced L.earning L.evel A.lgorithm) has been released. The prototype is now being tested by a group of pre-selected learners in order to calibrate the adaptive learning recommendation engine.
• .fastforward service: through the whole quarter, part of our encognize Japan X-Tech Force has been involved in the facilitation and delivery support of a project based on advanced PII data protection solutions.

At a time when physical distancing is becoming the new norm and crowded places are regarded as health hazards, industries like Healthcare, Education, Financial Services, Retail industry among many others can only confirm the importance of diversifying their distribution channels from physical to digital. 
This digital shift is vital to ensure the continuity of service these organizations deliver to their communities and customers, if not the direct survival of their activities.
The good news is that it has never been so easy to create a website or an ecommerce platform to sell services, physical or digital goods online.
And most of us are already used to surfing and consuming on the web as we breathe.

While the shift to offering services online looks a great way to counter the current situation and prepare the future, organizations should though be mindful of challenges that some of us face in using these channels.
Visual issues like cataract, mobility troubles like Parkinson's disease or cognitive disorders like dyslexia to quote a few are as many conditions making it challenging to access web services provided only in a standard design.
So, how do we make the web more accessible as part of our social responsibility?
How do we ensure a higher level of digital inclusion?

These are the two questions that FACIL'iti, an award-winning company with legal entities in France and Japan and a directory of more than 500 corporate customers already using their services, exactly answers.

The solution?
FACIL'iti solution is a user-friendly, easy-to-deploy, cybersecure, data-privacy compliant and cost-efficient solution making your client-facing website or intranet more accessible to disadvantaged users.

At encognize G.K., we are proud to announce our collaboration with FACIL'iti, supporting them in achieving their mission of making the web a more inclusive place for disadvantaged people.

More about FACIL'iti here
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2020 Q2, The "lockdown Quarter"...
Under these unprecedented conditions of massive lockdown and travel ban across the globe, the encognize team has focused their Q2 effort on continuing pushing new innovation initiatives in Japan as well as bringing extra support to overseas startup contemplating entering the Japanese Market despite the challenging context.
These efforts were reflected through the following achievements and activities:

• June 10: an important milestones was achieved for AdviceRobo, an Alternative Credit Scoring solution from the Netherlands represented in Japan by our encognize X-tech Force, with the official announcement of a collaboration project with Orix Credit in Japan. The full Japanese Press Release is available here and the English version here.
• June 12: As a Service Partner of Plug And Play Japan, encognize has delivered remote workshops for newly selected batches in the US and Europe on Japan Market Entry and the related B2B opportunities and challenges. This program gives the opportunity to new comers to Japan to understand what to expect and how to prepare for developing fruitful collaboration relationships with Japanese corporations through  the PnP Japan program.
• June 30: a dedicated remote mentoring session was provided to a startup selected for the exploration program Next Step Japan, an initiative powered by German Accelerator and supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy.
• May-June: the encognize proprietary framework "Japan B2B Collaboration Readiness Assessment" (J-B2B.CRA) was revised and released under version 3.1. Designed for B2B FinTech, RegTech, InsurTech and CyberSec startups entering Japan, this qualitative assessment framework evaluates their chances of success in developing a successful collaboration engagement with Japanese corporations over 5 key dimensions: Organization Credibility, Solution Usability, Governance Maturity, Market Entry Agility and Japan Fluency. If you want to know more or are interested in a free initial assessment (eligibility conditions apply), please contact us here.