Takaharu Kameoka

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e-Culture BOF in Cairns

• Takaharu Kameoka
• Executive Vice-President
• Mie University

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Cultural Studies ?

• from University of Birmingham
• high level of international awareness
• regarding contemporary politics, economics,
  social issues and culture
• a wide variety of contributions to society

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Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies
Cultural Dynamics
Interdisciplinary Research on Creation of
Culture with Dynamics and Complexity
Intercultural Communication
Media and Technology
Cultural Structure
Crosscultural Exchange
Cultural Symbol
Cultural Anthropology
Global Culture
Comparative Literature Comparative Culture
Image Set
Comparative Ethnic Journal
Multidimensional Culture
Nation and Society
Cultural Complexity
Graduate School of Arts and SciencesThe
University of Tokyo
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Why e-Culture in APAN ?

• APAN is a network infrastructure
• APAN has e-Science and Natural resource
• APAN is powerful in agricultural collaboration
• APAN has a Digital Asia Project
• Now we have to think about the contents on human
  dimensions
• So lets open the doors of APAN to humanities,
  social science and arts etc., so called
  e-Culture.

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Importance of Chronology
(Timeline)

• Arrangement of Politics, Economics, Social
  issues, Culture and International Events
• Construction of Each Chronology for Birds-eye
  View of Each Period

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e-Culture in GIS(Spatial Layer)
e-Science Natural Resource Earth Monitoring
Information Science Bioinformatics
etc e-Culture Economics Politics
Education Humanities Art etc

• GIService
• GIScience
• GISystem

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e-Culture should be

• connected to natural science
• Connected each other
• interdisciplinary research

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Todays presentations

1. Introduction of Mie University by Takaharu
   Kameoka
2. The new Center for International Exchange at Mie
   University by Makiko Hanami, Mie University
3. Two Features of Library, Mie University by Osamu
   Inoue, Mie University
4. The challenges of the Information Management in
   Farm Businesses by Tomohiro Uchiyama, Mie
   University
5. Encountering of Cultures by Masao Ishii, Mie
   University
6. Strategy against Environmental Problems in East
   Asia for Promoting e-Culture, -Viewpoint of Human
   Dimensions- by Hye-Sook Park, Mie University
7. Economy and Society in Southeast Asia by Shigeo
   Arai, Mie University
8. Presentation by Dr Kanchana Kanchanasut,
   director of intERLab, AIT

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Discussion on e-Culture

• e-Culture or other suitable name ? For example,
  e-Arts ?
• What is covered by e-Culture ?
• What is the relationship between e-Science and
  e-Culture ?

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