With Society
With Society
To realize sustainability management, the Company believes that the engagement with local community as well as employees, shareholders and investors, investees, alliance partners and business partners is significantly important. The Group will contribute to realization of a sustainable society through various initiatives.
THE NEW CONTEXT CONFERENCE
THE NEW CONTEXT CONFERENCE has been held since 2005, hosted by Kaoru Hayashi and Joichi Ito for the individuals interested in the cutting-age Internet technologies and the businesses that emerge around them.
Under the concept, “Considering the new contexts that contribute to the development of society,” the conference aims to explore how to design a society by fully leveraging a wide variety of digital technologies with the values in a global society such as equality of people, diversity, prosperity, and sustainability and by together with experts from Japan and abroad.
Explore the NEW CONTEXT CONFERENCE archive here.
Support for Digital Regional Currency “Hachi Pay” (Shibuya City Initiative)
The DG Group participates in Shibuya City’s digital regional currency “Hachi Pay” business and contributes to promoting the smart city that Shibuya City aims to realize. In February 2025, PocketChange Inc., which is responsible for building the app for this business, joined the Group. We will accelerate regional DX and cashless transformation, contributing to the realization of a sustainable local community.
*The “Hachi Pay” business is contracted by Kayac Inc. as the contracting entity from Shibuya City.
Regional Contribution Through Startup Support (Open Network Lab)
The seed accelerator program “Open Network Lab”, which the DG Group has operated since 2010, has supported over 160 startups in total over 15 years and has deepened collaboration with local governments and business companies nationwide. Furthermore, we provide support for the formation of startup ecosystems that leverage the unique characteristics of each region, not just within Japan, and by discovering and nurturing promising businesses, we promote the creation of new industries and employment in local areas, contributing to the sustainable development of society.
Tohoku Youth Orchestra
The Tohoku Youth Orchestra is a restoration assistance project headed and directed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, and is a mixed orchestra of elementary school students to university students affected most by the 2011 Tohoku disaster: Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima.
The orchestra is positioned as “the opportunity for growth,” where children can learn and experience the world together with friends through guidance from and performance with world-renowned musicians and interactions with people. The Company gave a helping hand to establish SNS measures by providing advertising materials or social networking media and to support it as a sponsorship.
