The CiP Manifest has been released.

 ■The CiP Manifest has been released.The CIP Council, which forms the Pop & Tech Special Zone, has released the CIP Manifesto.Following the opening of an industry-academia collaboration center in a smart building in Takeshiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, it summarizes the activities of the past 5 years and seeks to launch priority projects going forward.Initially, CiP set up a 10-article CiP Vision, and pursued various activities based around those...

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Learning of Tomorrow issues the Post-COVID Education Promotion Statement

■Learning of Tomorrow issues the Post-COVID Education Promotion StatementLearning of Tomorrow, of which I am the managing director, issued the Post-COVID Education Promotion Statement.Learning of Tomorrow has continued to make recommendations for education IT for 10 years, if we count the length of time the Association of Digital Textbook and Teaching, the body it absorbed, was in operation.I was an early advocate for the institutionalization of digital textbooks and the creation of a "one person, one computer" system, and lobbied the government...

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Commentary: Information and Telecommunications White Paper

■Commentary: Information and Telecommunications White PaperThe following is my commentary on the Information and Telecommunications White Paper.This follows up on the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications Information and Telecommunications White Paper advisors meeting.I made three comments on this year's white paper.1. First, two positives.It suggested a positive interpretation, namely that the social changes due to COVID-19 are creating...

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