Digital Society @ Waseda University Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to got somewhere else, you must run at least as fast as that.

Through the Looking-Glass

Lewis Carroll (1871)

I think we have it

CERN

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

If this new particle is what we think it is, then it is a completely new type of particle never seen before.

Imperial College London

Paul Dauncey

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Microsoft

Bill Gates

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life... Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Apple

Steve Jobs

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Alexander Pope

English Poet & Satirist (1688-1744)

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people.

Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg

Mr. Watson, come here, I want you. The first understandable words transmitted over a telephone.

Alexander Graham Bell

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Albert Einstein

The thing that we are trying to do at Facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Microsoft

Bill Gates

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Microsoft

Bill Gates

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Apple

Steve Jobs

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me… Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.

Apple

Steve Jobs

Welcome to Digital Society ! The academic society only at Mitomo’s Seminar.

Welcome to the Digital Society! My name is Hitoshi Mitomo, Professor of Telecommunications Economics and Policy at Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS) and the Director of the Institute for Digital Society (IDS), Waseda University. This website presents information about our education and research activities and provides useful tips to those who are thinking to acquire MA or PhD in applications, economics, business and policies of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Japan.

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Students in this seminar will focus on information and telecommunications economic analysis and the effect of informatization on society. Topics analyzed will include theoretical optimization and the empirical aspects of telecommunications charges, network externalities, the spread of new services, IT investment, and the sustainable information society.

Happy 2016!

To all of digital society’s friends, present and past, we wish you a wonderful, fruitful 2016. 2016 will be a busy year for us, with three ITS conferences – the 2016 African Regional ITS Conference in Accra, Ghana (March 10-11, 2016), the 2016 Biennial...

ITS2012 Bangkok

On 18-23 November 2012, We have had an opportunity to attend the ITS 19th Biennial Conference and the ITS 4th PhD Seminar. The conference track theme was focused on various issues in telecommunications field such as Opening Platforms and...

Congratulations Graduation !! September 2012

Many dream, some try, but only a few achieve. You are an achiever. You have made us all proud. All your hard work is over, you have graduated. Well, maybe all your hard work isn’t over just yet....

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