Organization for the Promotion of Digital Innovation

• Outline Goal

  The Organization for the Promotion of Digital Innovation aims to establish the diversity and excellence of research and development on digital innovation through collaboration and cooperation with domestic-international stakeholders in the fields of research, education, and industry-university collaboration, based on the unique strengths and characteristics of University of Tsukuba.
  This organization also strives to give the above result back to our education and thereby make University of Tsukuba a world-class education and research institute continuing to actively create “knowledge”.

• Outline Background

  Digital technology plays an important role in the realization of a technologically-centered society, known as “Super-Smart Society” or “Society 5.0”, and in challenges that the world faces down the road. Nowadays, social transformation through disruptive innovation of digital technologies, such as data science, artificial intelligence, and cyber security, is required. University of Tsukuba, therefore, has been devoting itself to building and developing “Japan-U.S. Digital Innovation Hub".
  The Japan-U.S. Digital Innovation Hub is an initiative to establish a comprehensive partnership among the participating Japan and U.S. universities, along with the relevant industries and government agencies, which cultivates and promotes innovation in the field of digital technology.
  Through the Organization for the Promotion of Digital Innovation, our university never stops further boosting the initiative and utilizing resources such knowledge and relationships as we have built until today.

• Outline Activity

  （1）Plan and conduct the Japan-U.S. Digital Innovation Hub
  （2）Promote research, education, industry-university collaboration, and international cooperation on digital innovation
  （3）Support our education and research institutes on digital innovation

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