Our effort into increasing ICT accessibility

Our Basic Stance

The number of the world's Internet users has topped two billion, and ICT has become an essential part of the infrastructure that supports daily life. In stark contrast, however, broad-band Internet has hardly penetrated developing nations, and this information disparity (the so-called "digital divide") is a factor hindering economic development.

Fujitsu is introducing a number of initiatives to break down this digital divide so that all people of the world can have speedy access to information and an equal chance of making economic progress.

Completion of an Indonesia Submarine Optic-Fiber Network

Fujitsu has collaborated with the German cable maker Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke GmbH (NSW) to complete the first Indonesian high bandwidth communications network, which links the islands of Java, Bali and Lombok, and Kalimantan and Sulawesi.

This "JaKa2LaDeMa" project provides PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia with some 1,800km of high-capacity submarine cable and forms the infrastructure to support the Internet and the transmission of video and other data to the great benefit of daily life for the Indonesian people.

Helping to Build China's ICT Infrastructure

Fujitsu has provided China Mobile Communications Corporation with over 500 units of UNIX servers and storage systems to handle massive amounts of data such as subscribers' information and billing for its 600 million-plus subscribers.

Fujitsu is providing highly reliable ICT infrastructure platforms to customers in telecommunications, education and government sectors throughout China. They are used for systems such as business support systems, business analysis systems and network control systems. Fujitsu will continue to provide highly reliable products and solutions in the Chinese market as a global ICT partner.

Scanner Sales Network Expands in Africa and China

PFU provides "fi-Series" professional document scanners for businesses that want to digitize large quantities of paper documents. Through a network of partners across the world it sells and supports in 185 countries and regions enabling it to achieve the leading market share globally. More recently, the demand for professional document scanners has been increasing in African nations such as Nigeria,Ghana and Gambia, driven by the adoption of electronic document processing by government and financial institutions. PFU's fi-Series has played an important role as an introduction of ICT.

Through stronger cooperation with distributors and resellers the distribution network across Africa was extended in 2010 to cover 46 African nations that can now benefit from the business efficiency and productivity gains brought about by using PFU's fi-Series scanners.

The National Bureau of Statistics of China also chose 1,700 Fujitsu Group scanners and Chinese-language OCR software for China's Sixth National Census Project from November 2010, and the census benefitted from accurate and rapid preparation of the statistics.

Telemedicine System Trials in Laos

Fujitsu, with support from Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT, an Asian international communications organization), has helped the move towards e-government in Laos. One step in this is, for example, constructing basic infrastructures for the introduction of a database at a central hospital and the opening of access points at provincial hospitals so that medical records/information can be shared. We are also working on constructing systems for an ICT environment that will support doctors in remote regions by enabling them to consult with colleagues via web-based teleconferencing and the two-way transmission of image data.

We will be using the knowhow acquired in this way to benefit the move to e-government in developing countries.