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Hiroshi Matsumoto
President, Kyoto University
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ITU Kaleidoscope overview

2008

2010
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2013
Kaleidoscope series of conferences
were initiated
ITU academia membership category
was established
Kaleidoscope 2013 is held in Japan,
at Kyoto University
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Conference theme:
Building Sustainable Communities
 `Sustainability’
 Already discussed for many years?
 Key phrases
○ Population growth
○ Economic growth
○ Limited resources on our planet
Time to start discussing `survivability’?
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矛盾１
まず改めて考えたい。
Growth
今、なぜイノベーションが
towards
Better
Life and
必要か？
Extinction?
Prosperity
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http://www.mizuho-ir.co.jp/solution/government/policy/finance/innovation/index.html
http://www.mizuho-ir.co.jp/solution/government/policy/finance/innovation/index.htm
Environmental
Problems
Depletion of
Resources
Pandemics
Rapid Economic Growth
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QoL(Quality of Life)
Time
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Human
Population
QoL
Resources
Time
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QoL
Human Population
Resources
Decline
Time
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QoL
Problem is
when this declining starts.
Decline
Time
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The Struggle for Human Survival
Technology
Applied
Science
Fundamental
Science
Catastrophe
Valley
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Struggle for Human Survival
Technology
Further
Population
Increase
Applied
Science
Fundamental
Science
Catastrophe
Valley
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First Paradox
まず改めて考えたい。
Growth
今、なぜイノベーションが
towards
Better
必要か？
Life ?
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http://www.mizuho-ir.co.jp/solution/government/policy/finance/innovation/index.html
http://www.mizuho-ir.co.jp/solution/government/policy/finance/innovation/index.htm
矛盾１Paradox
First
まず改めて考えたい。
Growth
今、なぜイノベーションが
towards
Extinction
必要か？
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http://www.mizuho-ir.co.jp/solution/government/policy/finance/innovation/index.html
http://www.mizuho-ir.co.jp/solution/government/policy/finance/innovation/index.htm
Economic
Growth?
Ｍore !
Never enough !
Must win !
Our civilization looks
like a lit candle
In the blowing wind.
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S & T only cannot sustain the
Population
present civilization
Explosion
Resource Shortage
Global Warming
Technology
Applied Science
Change of
View
Philosohy
Fundamental
Science
Mutual Help
Harmony
Coexistence
Catastrophe
Valley
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QoL
The peak must be delayed by
changing of our way of life.
Decline
Time
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QoL
By mitigation we will be given a time
for enabling S&T to find out a way out.
Decline
Time
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QoL
By mitigation we will be given a time
for enabling S&T to find out a way out.
Decline
Time
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QoL
By mitigation we will be given a time
for enabling S&T to find out a way out.
Decline
Time
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ICT can contribute to the
sustainability

Kaleidoscope can also contribute to it
Various aspects:
Technical aspect
Application aspect
Economic aspect
Regulation aspect
Various participants:
Developed/developing
countries
Universities,
industries,
governments, and
standardization
organizations
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Related programs
at Kyoto University

Dec 2011 Inter-Graduate School
Program for Sustainable Development
and Survivable Societies

Nov 2012 Graduate School of Advanced
Integrated Studies in Human
Survivability
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Kyoto: a university town since the Heian period!
Daigaku-ryō (大学寮): the former Imperial university of Japan
京都・奈良が発祥!!
8世紀～9世紀に成立された
「大学寮」
貴族子弟の教育施設、
卒業生は官吏。
大学頭→学長
博士 →教授
得業生→大学院生
学生 →学生
ガクショウ
京都二条城前
Nobel Fields Gauss ＠Kyoto University
Kyoto University’s academic approach is based on
1. Academic Freedom
2. Academic Self-Reliance
3. Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Nobel
1949
Nobel
1965
Fields
1970
Nobel
1981
Nobel
1987
Fields
1990
8 Nobel Laureates
2 Fields Medalists
1 Gauss Prize Winner
Nobel
2001
Gauss
2006
Nobel
2008
Nobel
2008
Nobel
2012
+ Many Other Awards
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京都学派（Kyoto School of philosophy)
田辺元
Tanabe Hajime
京
都
学
派
西田幾多郎
Nishida Kitaro
哲学の道
Tetsugakuno-michi
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Prof. Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.
Wins the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or
Medicine in 2012
iPS cells
(induced pluripotent
stem cells)
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A colony of hundreds of human iPS cells
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Science
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Non
Science
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Science
Non
Science
Proto
science
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Kyoto: One-Thousand-Year
Ancient Capital of Japan
Cultural and historical city:
 Heritages: Ginkakuji, Kinkakuji temple…
 Streets: the Philosopher's walk…
 Events: Gyoki Daie at Chion-in temple…
(wikipedia)
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Thank you! (=Arigato!)
and welcome to Kyoto!
(=Yokoso!)
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