A Japanese Fellow in the State Department’s Global Government to Government Partnership (G3P) - part of the International Visitor leadership Program - is conducting a major research project on digital governance in the U.S. The Fellow has worked for Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications where he held multiple positions focused on digital governance, and began helping to plan the government’s information systems, rising to become the Section Chief of the Government’s Shared Platform Management. He will meet with greater Detroit-based university professors to discuss UX research and design, especially as it relates to the impact of COVID-19 on UX research and service design.