Smart City CiP, a whole picture

 ■ Smart City CiP, a whole picture

At KYOTO SMART CITY EXPO, we made a presentation about the smart city of Pop Tech CiP Smart City. It's a content innovation program concept that creates a base for digital and content integration in Tokyo, Minato-ku, Takeshiba, and the Bay Area. 

CiP is a cool Japan bridgehead opening in the city just before the 2020 Olympics. It gathers cutting edge content, IT, IoT and AI to create a digital test-bed. The area is accredited as a National Strategic Special Zone and will introduce deregulation like never before. They want to create Dejima in the 21st Century. 

Before the city opened, many projects were already in operation. 

We are creating a special archive zone. As a foundation for this, we are promoting "Artist Commons" activities that assign IDs to artists and link content and live performances. The music industry plays a central role, in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. The other day, it was rolled out as an incorporated association. 

We have created the "World Otaku Research Institute", at the top of otaku research. 20 million otaku from around the world participate in Japanese pop events such as Japan Expo in France and Anime Expo in the United States. The organizers are from leading universities in various countries such as Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and Beijing University. We decided to create headquarters for this activity. 

Softbank HQ will also move into the building where CiP will move, making it a technology experiment site. Cleaning, security, convenience stores and restaurants will be unmanned, robotic, and smart. At the festival held at Takeshiba the other day, there were many robots serving beer and takoyaki, salesperson robots, security robots, and others. 

There will be electronic and digital signage. Relaxing the outdoor display regulations, large screen displays around the city will be shown around the city. A huge 4K and 8K public viewing will also be prepared. We will be representatives of both the Digital Signage Consortium and the 4K/8K Video Distribution Advancement Mechanism, so we will be concentrating their power. 

There is also a special radio wave concept that enables communication and broadcasting fusion to provide communication services using broadcast radio waves. We wondered if the world's first IoT broadcasting station that emits radio waves for robots could be created. We are in consultation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications about this.

We also want to implement a mechanism that utilizes data coming from those areas, so-called information banks. We are consulting this with Softbank, Tokyo University, RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, etc. Experiments are being conducted on both technologies in various places, but there is no city that has completely integrated them. We're thinking of doing the whole thing together. 

We will also create a base for education and human resource development. KMD moves in and cooperates with Singapore NUS, London RCA, NY Pratt, etc. I will also invite my alma mater, Stanford University. iU will utilize this as a satellite. 

We will also be promoting children's education. We will hold programming WS, animation, game, robot creation WS, etc. with CANVAS, pioneers in digital creation and expression activities. We design learning that breaks down the school barrier for anyone from children in college, high school and junior high, to adults. 

Tokyo is a capital looking out to the sea. The United States, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, and other G7s countries don’t have capitals with a sea exit. Not even China or Russia. Japan, a maritime nation, once moved its capital from Kyoto to Edo (Tokyo) in order to take advantage of its sea routes. Water was the center of its industry and culture. Now, Tokyo is not making good use of its sea. Let's redevelop that. 

There are several seaside cities that serve as models for smart cities. In the East Coast, there's Boston with MIT and Harvard, and in the West Coast there's San Francisco with Stanford. Singapore. Barcelona. 

We want to cooperate with these cities. We have signed an agreement with the Minister of Culture of Catalonia, where Barcelona is located. 

An area for events and R&D will be developed beside Haneda Airport and will open at the same time as Takeshiba. There are plans to hold joint events directly with Takeshiba, and to make it possible to come and go by drone. There are pop towns such as Akihabara and Ikebukuro. There are also large-scale redevelopments in Shibuya and Shinagawa. We want to connect with everything. 

We want to turn CiP into Hatsune Miku. She was created by combining the technology of Vocaloid with the expression of cute anime characters, and everyone participated in the social network called Nico Douga, raising it together with everyone's power. 

Hatsune Miku is the crystallization of three three powers of tech, pop, and the people. This would be such a city.