DX Talent Sub Working Group

Providing education and employment opportunities for people with refugee backgrounds and stateless people, giving them a chance to thrive as digital transformation talents, not only regains their self-reliance and autonomy, but it also addresses the challenges society carries of the shortage of human resources for digital transformation.

Challenges
What we do
Pledge
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Challenges

People with refugee background and stateless people to thrive as digital transformation workers

Due to their unique circumstances, people with refugee or stateless backgrounds often face limited access to education and employment. While earning a living is essential for integration, many struggle to immediately gain self-reliance. To address both their challenges and the shortage of digital transformation talent in society, we offer training opportunities to help them thrive in this field.

What we do

Career Support for people with refugee backgrounds and stateless people: Employment Assistance through CIB Scholarships and Digital Skill Development

For people with refugee backgrounds and stateless people to build and thrive in their careers, we provide scholarship programs using the Career Impact Bond (CIB) and employment support by outsourcing after they have acquired their digital skills (Impact Sourcing). Furthermore, we support career building for refugees and immigrants as digital transformation talents through partnering with companies and municipalities.

Global Impact Sourcing Consortium (GISC) launch event

On November 28th, 2024, we held a symposium to launch the Global Impact Sourcing Consortium (GISC) by the Global Impact Sourcing Consortium (GISC) to promote the social contribution of digital transformation outsourcing to refugees.

Pledge

Empower Refugees Through Digital Training with 1 B Impact Bond and Job Inclusion with 10 B Impact Sourcing

'Welcome Japan', in collaboration with Robo Co-op, Shared Digital Center, Eukarya, BonZuttner, Peopleport, Annotation Support, and Persol Cross Technology are proud to present our pledge based on the "Welcome Challenge #001: Digital Inclusion of Refugee Immigrants" initiative, which was submitted for the OSAKA EXPO 2025. This initiative promotes the inclusion of refugees and stateless people as digital talents. It encompasses 1) Career Impact Bond: a scholarship program with “pay-it-forward” mechanism for digital reskilling and upskilling; and 2) Digital Impact Sourcing: job inclusion opportunity through IT outsource projects from corporates. The pledge aims to: 1. Career Impact Bond (CIB): With CIB, refugees and stateless people can receive free training in high-income digital skills and wraparound service including living cost support to increase the success rate. Once participants complete trainings and its income surpass a certain threshold, they will be able to repay the scholarship. To ensure a sustainable circulation of education opportunity for more trainees in the future, they pay it forward to this CIB funds, fostering integration into workforce. The pledge targets to fund 10 million yen worth CIB. 2. Digital Impact Sourcing (DIS): To secure job inclusion beyond training, companies can outsource IT projects to the above impact sourcing vendors, which then delegates these tasks to its trained refugees and stateless people. Outsourcing provides job inclusion opportunities, while allowing companies to contribute to a social cause without the complexities of direct employment. The initiative ensures that language barriers or management challenges do not hinder refugees from finding meaningful and descent work. Companies can “test” these talents through outsourcing projects, and recruit them directly if satisfied for impact hiring as well. The pledge targets to obtain 10 billion yen worth DIS projects. Our initiative aligns with the goals of creating an inclusive multicultural society where everyone can shine in their true essence, leveraging digital skills. It addresses two societal challenges: empowering refugees and stateless people to achieve economic independence as digital talents and addressing the shortage of global digital talents.