In a desperate attempt to boost Japan's cyberspace population to numbers more closely resembling those of other industrialized nations, the government is struggling to draw attention to its online exposition, said Taichi Sakaiya, a special adviser to the prime minister and former chief of the Economic Planning Agency.
"Right now, we are trying to hammer out new plans to make the Internet expo more enjoyable and attractive," Sakaiya, who came up with the idea of the yearlong project, said in a recent interview.
"It could be a worldwide online symposium or any other kind of project to support international volunteer groups," he said. "Or it could be a project to link city schools to those in the countryside, so that students can see schools that they have never been to before."