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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From direct and indirect contributions to the delivery of educational sessions as part of encognize .SYNAPTIK services to expending our support to innovative startups entering the Japanese market under encognize .FASTFORWARD services, the first quarter of 2020 has been very active for our Japan X-tech Force consultants.

• January 17: workshop on the topic of collaboration gap between corporations and startups delivered to the Department of Global Innovation Studies of Toyo University for the Creatoyo week
• January 20: presentation of the IRTA x Protiviti global study "An Urgent Call for KYC Optimization", realized with encognize direct contribution, at the second gathering of the SupTech/RegTech Committee of the FinTech Association Japan (FAJ), with the active participation of Kito-san (FAJ & Crowd Realty KK), Higo-san (FAJ & TRUSTDOCK KK), Homma-san (FINANTIX GK) and Ogawa-san (EY Japan)
• February: onboarding of Optimity with a mission to support their ongoing projects in Japan as well as to accelerate their domestic business growth. Optimity is a comprehensive health solution focused on proactive wellness for individual users and business-enabler for corporations especially in the Insurance industry
• March 02: participation to the preparation and delivery of an event from La French Tech Tokyo featuring the most promising French startups known as NEXT40, with the support of the French Embassy in Tokyo, including live presentation from the NEXT40 companies already operating in Japan
• March 26:  support to the final FE Credit Vietnam Xcelerate Demo Day remote presentation of AdviceRobo, one of the only 10 startups selected to this program developed in partnership with MEDICI.
• March: encognize becomes an official Service Partner of Plug and Play Japan. As Service Partner of Plug and Play Japan, encognize commits to support the domestic business development of the selected startups selected by offering a Japan Market Entry seminar and preferential service pricing.

Additionally, under the global COVID-19 sanitary crisis, encognize has decided to put in place specific "Japan Business Continuity" packages to support startups or scale-ups with no/limited operational teams in Japan and in the need of Japanese-speaking Business Coordinators to help manage ongoing discussions or project during lockdown and travel restrictions. Contact us here for more information and we will check how we can help your business move forward in Japan despite the adversarial context.

Our encognize team has maintained a high pace of activities throughout the last quarter of 2019, keeping at its heart the sharing of experiences.
Workshops, presentations, luncheon have been conducted with a wide range of participants to the FinTech industry and to the broader Innovation ecosystem, be they startups, financial institutions, regulators or students.
Of course, our encognize team has also continued to focus on ensuring strong business progresses for our portfolio of innovating Tech companies through the identification of new projects, PoC, business partners or investors.

• October 14: open discussions with students of Toyo University (東洋大学), Department of Global Innovation Studies, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies on the theme: "From the corporate world to entrepreneurship: 5 key takeaways"
• October 15: AdviceRobo pitch at the Plug And Play Japan Fintech Stage at CEATEC
• November 15: Japan FSA luncheon with Bruno Abrioux-Takano, encognize G.K. CEO, introducing as IRTA Japan Chapter Lead the latest global RegTech trends with a specific zoom on KYC optimization (based on e global study supported by encognize G.K.)
•  November 18: participation of encognize G.K. at an ideation workshop co-organized by Toyo University, Schoolab and La French Tech Tokyo
• November 26: seminar on "Quantum Computing in Finance" organized for FIA Japan by Bruno Abrioux-Takano, in its capacity of FIA Japan Technology Committee Chairman, with the contribution of QuantFi and the support of Greenberg Traurig Tokyo Law office
•  November 28: representation of Unikeys at the Tokyo 2019 Paris - Europlace International Financial Forum: New Frontiers in Finance
• December 04: workshop on Japan Market Entry for newly started Plug And Play Japan batch of startups in FinTech and Brand & Retail verticals
• December 24: following multiple rounds of presentations and pitches led as AdviceRobo representative in Japan and SEA, confirmation that AdviceRobo is one of the 10 startups selected among 170+ candidates to join in Vietnam the FE Credit Xcelerate program organized with the support of Medici