Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo will create a Web3 consortium

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Japan's largest mobile operator, NTT Docomo, has partnered with multi-chain smart contract platform Astar Network to accelerate the country's Web3 adoption.

NTT Docomo and Astar Network will jointly develop products that will enableindividual customers, including corporations, to use tokens for governance. 

The companies agreed to collaborate in three main areas: research into environmental issues related to Web3; removing technological barriers to wider Web3 adoption; training people and providing developers and managers with practical and theoretical knowledge about the industry.

According to Sota Watanabe, CEO of Astar Network, one of the goals of the partnership is to bring Web3 knowledge from a narrow tech-savvy circle to the general public.

"To do this, we will need to create a platform with a well-designed user interface in an infrastructure that is accessible to everyone.We're going to have to make a whole community where there will be more ordinary people than developers directly related to the industry," Watanabe said.

Previously, the country's Prime Minister Fumio KishidaKishida said that Japan will begin to encourage the digitalization of regions to speed up the work of government agencies, including using metaverses and NFTs.