New Aspects of Digital Education Implementation

　The Association of Digital Textbooks and Teaching (DiTT), of which I am the senior managing director, was established as a promotional organization in 2010, in response to concerns that the digitization of educational information wasn’t proceeding, and that Japan had resigned itself to remaining an underdeveloped country. At that time, the government also wasn’t putting in much effort. 　http://ditt.jp/ 　However, when the former president of the University of Tokyo, Hiroshi Komiyama, became the director, and Nanako Ishido and myself took over...

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Seeking a Drone Strategy

　For the first time in four years I visited the Sagrada Família. The church was under construction, just as it was four years ago. A Barcelona resident informed me that it would be completed in another 10 years. It seems that drones are being used to survey for the construction. Drones, please make yourselves useful. 　Prior to that, I participated in the Japan Drone Nationals held by TBS. Drone racing has become a new sport. I want to promote it as a superhuman sport for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The essence of drones is their fun side, not...

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