CFIEC Webinar "Challenges for a New Digital Society - Beyond Web3 and ChatGPT"

Date & Time: October 5, 2023 (Thursday) 15:30-17:00
Organized by: Center for International Economic Collaboration (CFIEC)
Lecturer: Waichi Sekiguchi, President, MM Research Institute, Ltd.
　　　 Jiro Kokuryo, Professor, Faculty of Policy Management, Keio University
　　　 Yasuhiko Taniwaki, Executive Vice President, Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
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Format: Online seminar (YouTube Live)
Capacity: 200 people
Admission: Free

Please register at the URL below.
https://peatix.com/event/3708965/

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Since the late 1990s, information and communication technologies such as personal computers, the Internet, and cell phones have spread rapidly, and now the Internet has become an airborne presence and an important social infrastructure. In particular, the spread of the new coronavirus has led to rapid progress in digitization over the past few years, including online shopping and online distribution of events and conferences, and the recent emergence of so-called generative AI such as ChatGPT, which can create content in just a few dozen seconds, instead of the hours it used to take for humans to create it. It is now possible to create content in a few dozen seconds, whereas it used to take hours for a human being. The Internet age has entered Web3, and since around last year, governments have announced a series of Web3 initiatives.

The Internet was originally a free way for people around the world to connect at any time, but times are changing rapidly, and with the emergence of new digital technologies, challenges are emerging one after another. It is time to rethink social systems and rules from a different perspective. What is needed now for Japan not to fall further behind the rest of the world?

Mr. Yasuhiko Taniwaki, former vice president of IIJ Inc. and a former deputy director general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and Mr. Jiro Kokuryo, chairman of the Digital Agency's "Web 3.0 Study Group" and a researcher on ID and social structural changes at Keio University, will be invited as lecturers for this session. Kazuichi Sekiguchi, who has covered the latest trends in the global information and communications field for 15 years as an editorial writer for Nikkei Inc. and currently serves as the president of MM Research Institute, Inc. will moderate the discussion.

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1. 15:30 - 15:35 (5 min.) Program description, self-introduction of speakers (Secretariat)
2. 15:35 - 15:55 (20 minutes) Speeches from each speaker
3. 15:55 - 16:55 (60 min.) Discussion, Q&A
4. 16:55 Adjournment

<Instructor Biography
Kazuichi Sekiguchi
(Representative Director, MM Research Institute, Inc. and former editorial writer, Nikkei Inc.
Graduated from Hitotsubashi University Faculty of Law in 1982 and joined Nihon Keizai Shimbun, where he was a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University in 1988. After serving as English-language Nikkei cap, Washington correspondent, and cap for electronics in the Industry Department, he served as an editorial board member for 24 years from 1996, and as an editorial board member for 15 years from 2000, writing editorials on the information and communications field, etc. In 2019, he became President and CEO of MM Research Institute, Inc. He has also served as a commentator on NHK's international broadcasts, a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School, and a visiting professor at Hosei University Business School. He is the author of "NTT 2030-nen sekai senryaku" ("NTT 2030-nen sekai senryaku"), "Pasokukaku kakumei no banner-bearers" ("PC revolutionary standard-bearers"), and "Joho sansaku jutsu" ("Information search techniques") (both published by Nikkei Inc.).

Jiro Kokuryo
Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Keio University
He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in economics and joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation in 1992. He joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT) in 1982, received his Ph.D. in business administration from Harvard Business School in 1992, became an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University in 1993, a professor in 2000, a professor at the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University in 2003, a professor at the Faculty of Policy Studies, Keio University in 2006 (to present), and a professor at the Faculty of Policy Studies, Keio University from 2009 to 2013. Dean of the School of Policy Studies. He also served as Director of the SFC Research Institute from 2005 to 2009, and as Executive Director of Keio University from 2013 to May 2021.
His major publications include "Open Architecture Strategy" (Diamond, 1999), "Social Capitalism" (Nikkei Inc., 2013), "Cyber Civilization Theory: Governance of the Bring Your Own Economy" (Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., 2022), and Mihoko Sakurai and Jiro Kokuryo co-authored "Sociotechnical Management: Toward People-Friendly DX" (Nikkei BP Nikkei Inc., 2022).

Yasuhiko Taniwaki
(Executive Vice President, Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
Graduated from Hitotsubashi University in 1984 with a degree in Economics, and joined the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (now the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) in April 1984. After serving as Secretary to the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications and Counselor for ICT Policy at the Embassy of Japan in the U.S., he became Deputy Director General of the Cabinet and Deputy Director of the Cabinet Cyber Security Center (NISC) in June 2013, Director General of the Information and Communications International Strategy Bureau in June 2016, Policy Chief (in charge of information security) in July 2017, Director General of the Policy Management Bureau (in charge of information security) in July 2017, and Director General of the Integrated Communications Infrastructure Bureau in July 2018. Director General of the Directorate General of Integrated Telecommunications Infrastructure in July, 2019; Deputy Director General of the Directorate General of General Affairs (in charge of Post and Telecommunications) in December, 2019; retired in March 2021; joined IIJ in January 2022, and has served as Executive Vice President, Assistant to General Manager since June of the same year; served in the position of Executive Vice President, Assistant to General Manager, since June of the same year. He is a specially invited professor at the Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University. His publications include "Internet Theory as an Education" (2023, Nikkei BP), "Cyber Security" (2018, Iwanami Shinsho), "The Missing Link" (2012, Toyo Keizai Shinposha), and "Whose Internet is it?

Webinar Office
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