Director and CTO, a2ee Inc.

Representative Director, quality design laboratory, Inc.

Doctor of Environmental Studies, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University

P.E.Jp

First-class Registered Architect

Fellow of JSCE

More than half of the world's population now lives in cities. Particularly, cities in the Global South are chronically lacking in infrastructure to support people's lives, forcing them to live in unsanitary slums or on land vulnerable to disasters. Nevertheless, cities are still attractive spaces that offer a variety of service opportunities, including employment, healthcare, education, and public transportation. On the other hand, in the field of information technology, we have moved to the open-source revolution, the generative AI revolution, and now automated driving and quantum technologies seem the next potential revolution. The focus is shifting from large organizations like GAFA+M to individuals and startups. If the service opportunities described above can be made available to rural areas through the spread of such information technology, the disparity between rural and urban areas will be mitigated. As a result, we expect to see a change in the population inflow to cities mentioned at the beginning of this report. Thus, where people live, what they want, and how they live are closely linked to advances in information technology. Kobe Institute of Information Science and Technology focuses on acquiring information technology based on people's needs and on training leaders who can put it into practice to improve people's well-being.