Blog- Just published: the final UN report on “A Future with AI – Voices of Global Youth”
- Panelist at the AI Governance Series: “Toward Human-Centric AI: The Japanese Model”
- Talk on “Making Human First AI & Robots: Theory and Practice” @ Future Robotics Organization
- Launching the UN “A Future with AI” project
- Panelist at the UNICEF’s Global Forum on AI for Children
- Keynote speech at the Kick-off event of the Center for Mathematical Science and Artificial Intelligence, Chubu University.
- Panelist at the Information Communication Forum
- UNESCO and Boston Consulting Group’s AI Conference
- Keynote Speech at the AI Expo Africa
- invited talk on “Trust and the Smart City: a view from Project GenZAI (Moonshot R&D project)” @ RO-MAN 2021
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Author Archives: Toshie Takahashi
Invitation to Ars Electronica 2017
On September 7th to 11th, Linz in Austria. I was invited to Ats Electronica Festival 2017. I gave a talk about “Self-Organizing city: Tokyo” at Ars Electronica Tokyo Initiative. I was talking about how to create a better future AI society by … Continue reading
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Winning the first prize for the Telecommunication social science award
My first Japanese book, “Toward the Age of Digital Wisdom: Young People and their Engagement with Digital Media”, won me the first prize for the Telecommunication social science award. Thanks to everyone I was able to get this award!
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Co-hosting AI In Asia Tokyo: “AI For Social Good” @Waseda University
The AI in Asia Tokyo is organised by the Digital Asia Hub in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Waseda university, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, NICT, NTT, KDDI Research, Inc., … Continue reading
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Talked on “Robots on the road to Tokyo Olympics 2020: Complexity and the Social impact of AI in Japan” @AI in Asia Seoul
Talked on “Robots on the road to Tokyo Olympics 2020: Complexity and the Social impact of AI in Japan” @AI in Asia Seoul by the Digital Asia Hub with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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Talked on “Complexity Model of Communication with Computer Images” @2016 Multimedia and Applications.
I have talked on “Complexity Model of Communication with Computer Images” @2016 Multimedia and Applications, London, UK, August 2016. Abstracts Social and natural scientists have used the complexity paradigm to address issues of the complexity and dynamism of phenomena which … Continue reading
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“Preparing the Young for Japan’s Global Future: Opportunities in Digital Literacy” @IAMCR 2016
Abstracts We live in a rapidly changing social environment. It has been called as “The fourth industrial revolution” because new communication technologies such as global social media, smartphone, wearable computer, AI, big data, robot, and IoT (internet of things) have … Continue reading
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Plenary: “Tourism as Information Industry” @The 34th Japan Society of Information and Communication Research (JSICR)-The International Communication Forum
Plenary: “Tourism as Information Industry” on June 25, 2016 We had a lively discussion on the issues and possibilities for Japanese tourism in the light of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, including the encouragement of export of Japanese popular culture and … Continue reading
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Appointment for the technology advisory committee of The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2020
I am honoured to have been appointed to the technology advisory committee of The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2020. I hope to contribute to the success of this momentous event by working towards a participatory … Continue reading
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“It’s Now Cool to Share: Japanese youths and their changing relations to video sharing sites”@ICA 2016
Abstracts The practice of uploading one’s videos on video sharing sites may seem commonplace, especially among youths. Based on fieldwork done in Japan between 2010 and 2011, however, it appears that this was the exception rather than the rule among … Continue reading
Posted in Culture and Communication, Facebook, impression management, Instagram, Line, Mobile Media, Social Media, Twitter, Uchi, Youth and Media
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“Creating the Self in the Digital Age: Young People and Mobile Social Media”@ Digital Asia Hub
Abstracts While there is a tendency to celebrate children and young people as creative subjects, there is also a tendency to deem them vulnerable targets of media industries. These contradictory characterizations have become even more pronounced with the advent of … Continue reading