Zemi Introduction / Digital Transformation for Public Good / Kenji Saito, Professor, Waseda Business School / Digital Transformation for Public Good — 2024-04 – p.1/11
School of Business and Finance, Waseda University Researcher, Keio University Global Research Institute (KGRI) Chief Science Officer, BlockchainHub Inc. Representative Director, Academy Camp Bio M.Eng in Computer Science from Cornell University, 1993 Ph.D. in Media and Governance from Keio University, 2006 (on digital currency research) Researcher of P2P (Peer-to-Peer), digital currency, and distributed autonomous society for 23 years at Keio and Waseda universities (started my career at Waseda in 2019) Holding Academy Camp for children in Fukushima with friends since summer 2011 . . . , 2018 Summer “OK Google, Do My Homework!”, 2019 Winter “Automation for Girls”, . . . , VR2021.7 “You Create! Lunar Society”, VR2021.8 “ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS”, VR2021.9 “You Explore! Amazing Modern & Near Future Medicine”, . . . , VR&RPG 2023.5 “Don’t Be So Serious”, 2023 Summer “Hakone Stay-In Trip”, . . . , 2024 Winter “Shouting AI in the Northwest of the Capital” → Inter-connected in my mind (society hereafter needs to be designed with children) / Digital Transformation for Public Good — 2024-04 – p.3/11
Vol.36 Within the next 30 years, machines and algorithms will replace many of the intellectual activities that used to be considered essential to human beings, and with the expansion of automation, we will see the emergence of a new “natural environment” where “a pencil grows on a tree” (so to speak) instead of the old “social environment” where “even a single pencil is produced by a number of people working in a division of labor” We call this “Meta Nature” Meta Nature operates automatically and autonomously, and humans care for it, work with it, get resources from it, and live creatively Money will have no role there It is like a hunter-gatherer society where there is no money / Digital Transformation for Public Good — 2024-04 – p.5/11
among for-profit, non-profit, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations, we will discuss how to improve society by transforming businesses through digital communication technologies, and explore ways to make this happen / Digital Transformation for Public Good — 2024-04 – p.6/11
exist by society and the economy ⇒ / Businesses that undermine the public interest cannot be sustained ⇒ / Any way you slice it, we are doing it for the public good / And, we need to empower the weak for the public good ⇒ DX / It is not DX if you side with the strong / What, instead of everyone benefiting equally? ⇒ / That would strengthen the gradient / Digital Transformation for Public Good — 2024-04 – p.7/11
Collaborate with “Public Technology Design Research Group”, Institute for Business and Finance Collaborate with the monthly open zemi “Digital Transformation for Public Good” Held on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 19:00 in the form of Zoom meetings Collaborate with Academy Camp and other living non-profit activities Collaborate with Generative AI Lab at AI Consortium, Keio University Collaborate with other real-life projects / Digital Transformation for Public Good — 2024-04 – p.8/11
ABM ( ) We will establish and implement not only quantitative but also qualitative research methodologies for the betterment of people and society, Using ANT (Actor Network Theory), ABM (Agent-Based Model), serious games, science fiction prototyping, etc., With application systems of so-called generative AI, improvement of problematic blockchain and Web3 technologies, digital twins, cyber physical, etc. (low-code/no-code development by zemi students) / Digital Transformation for Public Good — 2024-04 – p.9/11
AIC SVI (Science Village Itoshima) ( ) How to transform education into learning with generative AI In collaboration with AIC, Keio University and Academy Camp How to create a university town full of creativity In collaboration with SVI (Science Village Itoshima) Problems surrounding cryptocurrency mining with renewable energy (green mining) / Digital Transformation for Public Good — 2024-04 – p.10/11