Established on April 2, 2018, "Future Design Shibuya (FDS)" is the first step of the intercity collaboration design business with Hiroshima Prefecture in the AI / IoT demonstration platform business "Hiroshima Sandbox". We will work together as a partner to promote businesses that improve the value of Shibuya together.
Hiroshima Prefecture will build the "Hiroshima Sandbox", a place for demonstration experiments to create unprecedented new solutions by utilizing digital technologies such as AI / IoT and big data. By investing up to 1 billion yen in this demonstration experiment in 3 years from 2018, we will attract various companies and human resources from outside the prefecture and gather wisdom to solve various industrial and regional issues. I will work on it. As a partner for the implementation of this project, Future Design Shibuya will work toward new cooperation through co-creation between "Shibuya Ward" and cities and regions, and will invite players such as start-up companies from Shibuya to Hiroshima Prefecture.
Contents of cooperation
- The "Future Design Shibuya (FDS)" platform by industry, government, academia and the private sector to realize the future image of Shibuya "a city that changes the difference. Shibuya Ward" set forth in the basic concept of Shibuya Ward is an intercity collaboration design. We carry out business.
- Shibuya Ward and FDS will collaborate with Hiroshima Prefecture's AI / IoT demonstration platform project "Hiroshima Sandbox" to connect players such as startup companies in Shibuya with Hiroshima Prefecture and promote participation in "Hiroshima Sandbox". increase.
- FDS will utilize the transmission power of Shibuya to promote projects that improve the value of both Hiroshima Prefecture and Shibuya.
Shibuya Ward Mayor Ken Hasebe
For Shibuya Ward and Future Design Shibuya, I think that synergies will be created and innovation will occur by bringing ideas and assets to other cities such as Hiroshima Prefecture and connecting them to the real world. That is the true potential for business development for both parties. Expecting the success of this project, I would like to create a new model of intercity cooperation.
About Hiroshima Sandbox
By building a place where various actors such as companies in Hiroshima prefecture, universities, local governments, etc. can conduct all kinds of demonstration experiments, attracting advanced start-up companies and specialized human resources from outside the prefecture, and collaborating with companies in the prefecture, AI / The aim is to build a co-creation ecosystem that accumulates know-how and knowledge such as IoT and creates new solutions from Hiroshima one after another.
About Future Design Shibuya General Incorporated Association
Based on diversity and inclusion, Future Design Shibuya collects ideas and talents of various people who gather in Shibuya, such as people living in Shibuya, workers, learners, visitors, etc., across domains, and society through open innovation. It is a full-scale industry-government-academia-private partnership organization that designs solutions and possibilities for issues. Not only government agencies but also various actors (individuals, companies, schools, etc.) co-create and work on it with an unprecedented mechanism to create ideas that create new value, not only in Shibuya but also in cities around the world. It will be the bud of innovation for the future you will experience. Furthermore, by presenting such experiences and activities as a new possibility of urban life from Shibuya to the world, we aim to ultimately lead to the sustainable development of not only Shibuya Ward but society as a whole. ..
