Society is only now entering the true era of digital technology. Amid this global trend, Hitachi is seeking to realize the Society 5.0 vision through its Social Innovation Business in collaborative creation with a variety of partners. This issue presents technologies and solutions developed for the finance, social, and healthcare sectors, and covers social infrastructure security.
Professor Jun Murai of Keio University, talks about building a human-focused digital society and says that you will no longer need to be an IT specialist to design what a way of life might look like in which the Internet is an established fact and digital society is able to contribute to all aspects of our lives.
Rapidly advancing digital technology is enabling the creation of new value through the sophisticated use of data. Hitachi is helping to realize Society 5.0 through its Social Innovation Business, which utilizes digital technology. Keiichi Shiotsuka, Executive Vice President, Hitachi, Ltd. talks about its strategies in this field of business.
Blockchain, the technology behind virtual currencies, has attracted interest in recent years as an innovation that is on a par with the Internet itself and is seen as having the potential to dramatically transform how society functions. Three key people discuss how this technology will transform people’s way of life and society in general.
Keio University and Hitachi have embarked on joint research into cybersecurity as part of their work towards the creation of a super smart society. In this article, two key people discuss subjects including issues surrounding cybersecurity in the era of the IoT and collaborative initiatives by industry and academia.
The World Economic Forum was held in Davos under the theme of "Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World." This forum was a great platform for dialogues between government and business leaders. This article considers the future of a fractured world, looking at the leaders' statements from the perspectives of technology and social development.
Factors such as the rapid spread of IoT devices and advances in AI and big data are bringing major changes not just to corporate activity, but also to society itself. In the finance, social, and healthcare sectors, Hitachi is developing and delivering advanced technologies and solutions in an effort to build common platforms that are applicable across all of these sectors.
While advances in social infrastructure digitalization have created new value, the appearance of never-before-seen security threats has become a societal challenge. Hitachi is working on providing cyber/physical security solutions and training security staff under its security vision, Evolving Security for Changing IoT World.