India-Japan Round Table on ICT and Environment to be held on January 8

The Year 2010 augurs well for the Indo-Japanese relations as close on the heels of a successful visit by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, a high powered delegation from Japan is visiting India. The delegation comprising top business leaders and government functionaries will be led by Japan‘s minister for Internal Affairs and Communication, Haraguchi Kazuhiro.

The highlight of this visit will be a high powered India-Japan Round Table on  ‘ICT and Environment: Opportunities and Challenges’ organized by India Center Foundation at Aamby Valley in Maharashtra on January 8. The Round Table will see participation of leaders from both India and Japan in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.

This event assumes significance on account of the fact that the recent visit of Japanese Prime Minister proved to be major success. A number of important development took place during the visit including the approval of Project Development Fund between Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) worth one thousand crores aimed to create 24 industrial nodes.

India Center Foundation (ICF) initiated the vision of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor and convinced the leadership of both countries to make this dream a reality today.

(ICF) is also behind the Indo-Japan Global partnership Forum, which is scheduled to take place in the later part of this year. The partnership forum is expected to draw 4000 participants from India and Japan from different fields including business, education, tourism etc.

India-Japan Round Table aims to build up a plan to improve environmental performance of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) goods and services, make effective use of ICT applications in tackling global warming and its impacts, and harness the ICT sector’s innovation potential for green economic growth.

Analysts are watching this Round Table with keen interest as this event could trigger more collaboration between Indian and Japanese companies. Another important facet is that Indo-Japanese relationship is being seen upon as the growth vehicle for the entire Asian economy and this Round Table could be the trigger in this direction.

The event is being organised at the Aamby Valley to give the visiting delegates an opportunity to discuss important issues  in an informal environment. Prior to the Round Table the Japanese delegation will visit New Delhi and meet top government and business leaders of the country.

The high level delegation from Japan comprises of top government and business leaders including Yamazaki Yasuyo – Advisor Ministry of Internal affairs, Communications & Telecom, Terasaki Akira, Vice minister for internal affairs & communications, Yamada Ryuji – President of NTT Docomo, Shimatani Yoshiharu – Vice President of KDDI, Matsumoto Tetsuzo – senior executive Vice President of Softbank Mobile Corp, Katsuki Junzo – Executive Officer of Kyocera, Wakao Masayoshi – Senior Managing Director of Association of radio industries and businesses., Sukemune Yoshiyuki -President of Communications and Information network Association of Japan (CIAJ).

About India Center Foundation

A non-profit, non-partisan organization established in 1996, founded by Vibhav Kant Upadhyay.  India Center Foundation is actively playing the role of a catalyst in India’s nation building process

India Center Foundation has been actively working towards the goal of India Japan Global partnership – the by taking new initiatives aimed towards socio-economic sustainable development of India.

India Center’s persistent efforts and catalytic roles have authored a new chapter of  Indo–Japan partnership, which has brought two nations closer as global partners.

As a byproduct of Indo-Japan partnership, an interdependent economy between India and Japan has evolved and macro level economic models and initiatives of foundation such as a Delhi – Mumbai Freight and Economic Corridor are taking shape.