July 1, 2022
The Mitou IT Talent Discovery and Development Program is a program sponsored and implemented since fiscal year 2000 by the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA), an agency under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). Its purpose is to discover and nurture Japan's genius creators who will change the world using IT, with the aim of "discovering and nurturing outstanding IT talent." The following SFC students have now been certified as Super Creators for fiscal year 2021 and selected for the fiscal year 2022 program.
FY2021 Mitou IT Talent Discovery and Development Program Super Creator Certification
From among the creators selected for the Mitou IT Talent Discovery and Development Program, individuals recognized as having particularly outstanding abilities are certified as "Super Creators."
Fumiaki Mizuno (2nd-year master's student, Graduate School of Media and Governance)
Project Title: Development of a Low-Latency IP Video Transmission System for Racing Drones
Hiroto Sakoda (1st-year student, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies) *Joint project
Project Title: Development of a VR System Optimized for Use While Lying Down
Daiki Sekiguchi (Completed the master's program at the Graduate School of Media and Governance in March 2022)
Project Title: Development of a Creation Support Tool for Play to Realize Autonomously and Decentrally Deployed Playgrounds
FY2022 Mitou IT Talent Discovery and Development Program Selections
The objective is to discover and nurture outstanding individuals (creators) who possess original ideas and technologies capable of creating innovation in software-related fields, as well as the ability to utilize them, under the guidance of project managers (hereinafter "PMs") with excellent skills and achievements.
To achieve this objective, project proposals are solicited from young talent (under 25 years of age as of April 1, 2022) who are seeking to realize projects that are unique and innovative and hold the potential to create future social impact and innovation.
Selected creators will aim to improve their skills and technologies by implementing a development project on their proposed theme, while receiving guidance and advice from their PM.
Taiki Takemura (2nd-year student, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Keisuke Iida (3rd-year student, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies) and Hiroya Yuyama (2nd-year student, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Source: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office