Nishinomiya City appears to be introducing an AI-based admission screening system for nursery school applications.
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According to Nishinomiya City’s initial budget proposal for fiscal 2021, announced on February 5,
by introducing an AI system, the time staff used to spend matching “applicants” with “nursery schools” is apparently expected to be reduced by several hundred hours!!
Several hundred hours is amazing!
Even just thinking about it simply, matching applicants with nursery schools must be an incredibly complex and demanding task.
When you consider things like “preferred nursery school,” “number of siblings,” and “siblings attending the same nursery at the same time,” there must be an enormous number of possible combinations.
*Quoted from Key Points of the Initial Budget Proposal for Fiscal 2021｜Nishinomiya City Hall
Introducing an AI system should make the complicated nursery admission screening process smoother and reduce the workload for city staff, and best of all, it’s great that the results can be known quickly!!
Nikkei XTECH Special featured an article about using AI-powered matching technology to conduct optimal nursery school admission screening.
It included a case study from Saitama City. Here
In the Saitama City example, it said that nursery school admission matching can be done in just a few seconds!
Hopefully, introducing AI will help reduce the number of children on waiting lists and make it easier for families to smoothly get into their preferred nursery school.
Source: Kobe Shimbun NEXT/Press announcement on the initial budget proposal for fiscal 2021
