What happened
AndDot CEO Yuta Ibaraki served as a lecturer at a generative AI literacy training hosted by Sapporo City's Future Technology Utilization Project, attended by 460 city employees.
Why it matters
The session framed AI adoption around five risks (including data leaks, copyright and wrong answers) and seven usage patterns, giving staff a practical template for folding AI into daily municipal work, such as the spec-checking use introduced by Sapporo's contract management division.
WHO IT HITSLocal government staff and their managers, who are being trained to judge when generative AI is safe for tasks like drafting minutes and checking specifications, and the legal and contract teams that tend to hold back on adoption.
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The training was structured in three parts: an overview of how local governments are using generative AI and why staff should learn it now, a case-study session led by Ibaraki, and a panel discussion on the future of municipal government with AI. That format suggests Sapporo is treating AI literacy as a broad staff capability rather than a specialist skill confined to IT teams.
A notable point from the panel is the contract management division's decision to have AI review specifications it had drafted, a practice the division then shared across the city. Ibaraki noted that legal departments tend to be cautious about adoption because the technology touches their own area of expertise, and credited the division for starting to use it on its own initiative. GUGA's Ryo Komura argued that delegating first-pass checks to AI lets staff concentrate on higher-specialty work.
AndDot, founded in June 2023, says it has supported more than 350 companies and more than 300 local governments on AI transformation, and it positions this kind of training as a stepping stone to actual deployment in operations.
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