Aligned with its mission to support entrepreneurs who want to make a positive impact to our society using digital technologies, encognize has been supporting Reconnai in shaping its solution and underlying business concept that focuses on addressing plastic recycling contamination. 

Due to poor sorting processes at the source (meaning from us, consumers) and through the waste chain, it is hard to get clean waste streams where recyclable plastics are segregated from the non-recyclable ones.
As a result, most of our plastic wastes do not get recycled but get burnt or sent to landfill instead...
Data shows that, in Japan, about 73% of the collected waste gets burnt instead of recycled!

Reconnai's mission evolves around developing a platform for consumers, producers and governments that will help address recycling contamination together.

​If you are interested in getting involved in this project, please visit Reconnai's webpage here or contact the Reconnai team here.

While several projects have shown some strong progress in Q1, we have decided to feature two of them in this brief post, as a representation of the breadth and depth of services our encognize X-Tech Force provides to our business partners.

First, ELLA, the EdTech Adaptive Learning-as-a-Service API tool co-sponsored by encognize through its digital service launchpad, 「lab4-203」, has successfully graduated from the incubator Social Change Maker 5, a program sponsored by the Nippon Foundation and powered by ImpacTech. This would not have been possible without the support and hard work of ELLA's global Ambassador, Nhi Duong, and ELLA's co-founder, Eric Wiel. As a next step, leveraging the learning from the incubator program and inputs from the various mentors, ELLA's team will engage further with elearning and mobile learning solution providers.

Second, as part of its 「wisdomseed」 service line, encognize has continued their effort supporting innovative companies grow their business by providing custom upskilling sessions to a successful Japanese startup in the consumer electronics sector. The goal of the sessions is to help the company CEO prepare the scaling-up of his company in terms of business and organization and maximize his chance of success by equipping him with the right management and leadership tools and practices.

As far as Q2 is concerned, the encognize X-Tech Force will of course keep all its focus on delivering quality results to its business partners for the various missions it has been entrusted with.

encognize G.K. is proud to announce that ELLA, an Adaptive Learning-as-a-Service API solution co-created and realized through encognize.lab4-203 Digital Innovation Launchpad services, is one of the 13 projects selected for the Social Change Makers #5 (SCM#5) Program.
This SCM#5 program, sponsored by The Nippon Foundation and empowered by ImpacTech Japan, kickstarted on October 01, 2021 at CIC Tokyo (Toranomon).
Being part of Social Change Makers #5  should help accelerate ELLA's mission to improve Remote Education by providing an off-the-shelf Adaptive Learning-as-a-Service tool to eLearning / mLearning solution designers and thus contribute to Japan Social Innovation in regards to SDG Goal #4 of Quality Education.