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.
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...
Read More →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...
Read More →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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2019年度 春季 第40回 国際コミュニケーション・フォーラム 「5Gが拓くデジタル社会ーその進化の行方」 2019.06.29 @白鷗大学