An industry-government-academia consortium was established in which the ministries of education, science and technology, universities, and industry form a scrum for human resource development, and the first meeting was held at the Central Government Building 1 in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.At the first meeting, both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry reported on the status of activities so far.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, experts from the consortium include Nobuyoshi Aoyama, Secretary-General of the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Tomoko Hasegawa, Director of the SDGs Headquarters of the Japan Economic Association, and Katsuro Inoue, Professor of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Shintaro Nakajima. Mr. Tatsuya Kubota, Director of Lifelong Learning Promotion Division, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Mr. Takeshi Nakano, Director of Information Technology Utilization Promotion Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Mr. Nakayama, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan Economic Revitalization General Secretariat, attended.
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said that the shortage of IT human resources will increase from the current 17 to about 2030 in 79, and there is an urgent need to develop advanced IT human resources who will be responsible for new businesses by mastering AI (artificial intelligence). Claimed.Through the unexplored IT human resources discovery and training project, it has revealed that 1,700 human resources have been discovered and trained, and more than 255 people have started businesses.
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has revealed that it is promoting practical education for undergraduate students through the advanced technology human resources development project, and at the same time, is also focusing on promoting re-learning of IT engineers.The budget for this project is 2019 million yen in the 12 budget.
The university council, which consists of industry and universities, reported that it acts as a bridge between industry and universities after investigating the needs of industry for providing teaching material data and dispatching lecturers.
