Kyoto's Cultural Power Master Plan

■ Kyoto's Cultural Power Master Plan

I am currently serving as a member of the Kyoto Prefecture Council for Creating a Future through Cultural Power.

This is the second phase of the Basic Plan for Cultural Power, following the first phase in 2019.

I expressed my opinion.

After the first phase, the Agency for Cultural Affairs is moving to Kyoto and the World Expo is being held in 2025.

For Kyoto, the Agency for Cultural Affairs is a national opportunity, while the Expo is a global one.

How can we make use of this?

The two unexpected changes are COVID-19 and technology.

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated digital transformation around the world.

Both cultural expression and entertainment will be centered on digital.

Live performances will also be a hybrid of real and virtual.

Then AI, the metaverse, and web3, three major technologies that were originally separate, arrived at the same time.

A new cultural realm is born.

There is also a lot of debate in the country.

The Council for Cultural Affairs' report identified globalization and digital transformation as important themes.

How to deal with inbound and outbound

How can we develop new areas such as cultural digital transformation and the metaverse?

Kyoto Prefecture's next plan will also be a response to this.

I am active in three areas: human resource development, base formation, and events.

iU , creating a digital cluster in Takeshiba, Tokyo,

This is an art and digital activity at the Kyoto International Film Festival. 

We will also work in conjunction with BS Yoshimoto to lead up to the World Expo in 2025.

We are working to create a community of industry, government and academia.

I would like Kyoto Prefecture to cooperate with this community.

I hope you will make good use of it.

Turning the relocation of the Agency for Cultural Affairs and the digital transformation caused by COVID-19 into an opportunity,

We will take advantage of the upcoming opportunity of the World Expo and the opportunities of new technologies such as AI.

I would like you to move on to creating the next plan.

Thank you very much. I look forward to it.