ISSN 0915-3160 平成三十年一月十日発行（年四回一、 四、 七、 十月の十日発行）通巻百十七号 No. Vol. 30 January 2018 1Winter New Breeze New Year Messages From the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, Secretary-General of ITU, President of ITU-AJ Special Feature Development of High-quality ICT Infrastructure Keynote Address: High-quality ICT Infrastructure Development: Toward the Realization of a Digitally Connected World Current State and Development Potential of the ICT Sector in Africa Provision of High-quality ICT Infrastructures: An Introduction of NEC’s Global Initiatives New Breeze Vol. 30 No.1 Winter January 2018 CONTENTS New Breeze ISSN 0915-3160 Quarterly of The ITU Association of Japan BN Gyoen Bldg., 1-17-11 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, New Year Messages Tokyo 160-0022 Japan 1 2018 New Year’s Greetings from the Minister Tel: +81-3-5357-7610 Fax: +81-3-3356-8170 for Internal Affairs and Communications https://www.ituaj.jp/?page_id=310 2 New Year Message from ITU 3 New Year Greeting Editorial Committee Special Feature — Development of High-quality ICT Infrastructure Chairman: Wataru Kameyama 4 Keynote Address: High-quality ICT Infrastructure Development: Members: Ministry of Internal Affairs and Toward the Realization of a Digitally Connected World Communications, Association of Radio Industries and Businesses, Communication Line Products 7 Current State and Development Potential Association of Japan, Fujitsu Limited, Hitachi, Ltd., of the ICT Sector in Africa Japan Broadcasting Corporation, 13 Provision of High-quality ICT Infrastructures: KDDI CORPORATION, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, National Institute of Information and An Introduction of NEC’s Global Initiatives Communications Technology, NEC Corporation, NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Report Panasonic Corporation, Softbank Corp., 17 Overview of the 2017 White Paper on Information and Sony Corporation, Communications in Japan The Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association, The Telecommunication Technology Committee, and TOSHIBA CORPORATION Column 20 = A Serial Introduction Part 2= Winners of ITU-AJ Encouragement Awards 2017 Publisher: Michiaki Ogasawara Editors: Yuzo Mori Kaori Ohno Naoko Ishida Letters to New Breeze New Breeze welcomes readers’ opinions. 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All right international cooperation, mainly through the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity (APT), reserved. No reproduction or republication without written so as to contribute to the advance of the telecommunications and broadcasting permission. throughout the world. 2018 New Year’s Greetings from the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Minister for Internal Affairs and CommunicationsSeiko Noda o begin with, I would like to wish everyone a very which all vehicles are connected to the network. happy New Year. It is important that diverse services are provided with reasonable Since assuming office of Minister for Internal rates so that users can enjoy the convenience of communication Affairs and Communications five months ago, I have visited local services by smartphones. To this end, I will work toward creating an T environment that ensures fair competition in a market that includes communities and inquired about their conditions. While attaching great importance to the viewpoints of residents and consumers, I have mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs). devoted myself to the administrative field of the Ministry of Internal I will also enhance our efforts at achieving a smooth migration Affairs and Communications (MIC), which is closely and broadly of the fixed telephone network—Japan’s core communications involved with the lives of citizens. infrastructure—to an IP network while ensuring a fair and Japan has entered a mature period with a population that is competitive environment and user convenience. predicted to decrease even further in the years to come. Under these At the same time, I will push for more effective utilization of the circumstances, establishing a sustainable society that enables everyone radio spectrum, which we can expect to affect a wide range of fields as regardless of gender or age to provide mutual support is an extremely the core element of the ICT platform. important issue. A great deal of wisdom and experience accumulates in a mature Enhancing cyber security and ensuring safe and secure ICT nation. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications As we enter into a full-scale Internet of Things (IoT) era, cyber has likewise accumulated a wide variety of data, technologies, and attacks on IoT devices are suddenly increasing and the strengthening knowledge over the process of administering policies in the diverse of cybersecurity is becoming an urgent matter. At MIC, we are areas under its supervision. This year, as well, I plan to put these enhancing the system for formulating cybersecurity policies, steadily resources to work and devote all of my energy toward the creation of a advancing “IoT security comprehensive measures,” enhancing “peaceful, kind, and sustainable society” in which everyone can work countermeasures to Internet incidents, and upgrading training for together and live a happy life. security professionals. In addition, we continue to deal with the I believe the key to regional revitalization is diversity, inclusion, dissemination of illegal and harmful information and to work on and sustainability. I would like to emphasize this viewpoint in MIC creating a safe-and-secure radio environment. policies. Promoting the use of IoT, big data, AI, and the sharing economy Establishing the world’s highest-standard ICT environment for greater productivity Information and communications technology (ICT) is the “trump New applications of ICT such as IoT, big data, artificial card” that creates new added value by interconnecting all kinds of intelligence (AI), and the sharing economy can lead to new business resources including people, things, and data. ICT penetrates every models and greater productivity. It is the key to solving regional corner of people’s lives as an indispensable platform for all sorts of issues and achieving sustainable economic growth. We will support social and economic activities. To maximize the benefits of ICT, the comprehensive creation of new IoT services and their regional we will promote the “use of ICT throughout society” by ensuring implementation to steadily realize the “Road Map to Promote cybersecurity, further enhancing the ICT platform, and promoting Regional IoT Implementation.” widespread use of ICT. Additionally, as a compass to guide us in this In the area of AI, our efforts are centered on social endeavor, we will formulate new information and communications implementation and research and development. We will promote the policies for creating Japan’s future with an eye to the 2030s and implementation of fundamental AI technologies in a wide variety of beyond when the drop in population and the aging society likely fields and accelerate the research and development of next-generation intensify. AI technologies. We will also proactively contribute to discussions at With the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 G7, G20, OECD and other international meetings to achieve a sound in view, we are working to establish an ICT environment of the development of AI networking. world’s highest standard by introducing a fifth-generation mobile In addition, we will actively promote the introduction of new communications system, promoting an advanced platform for video technologies and mechanisms such as blockchain technology and delivery as in new 4K/8K satellite broadcasting (scheduled for launch information trusting functions to promote the expanded use of data. in December of this year), furthering the research and development of In closing, I wish everyone great health and good fortune to come. a multi-lingual speech translation system, and achieving a society in January 1, 2018 New Breeze Winter 2018 1 New Year Message from ITU HoulinSecretary-General Zhao International Telecommunication Union t is an honour for me to greet ITU’s Japanese realized this year. ITU and ILO launched a campaign community via the ITU Association of Japan to train five million young people with job-ready digital (ITU-AJ), which continues to be a key partner skills by 2030. ITU and FAO agreed to work together in enhancing and promoting ITU’s work in technical to advance e-agriculture. ITU and WMO advanced I the use of radio-based systems for life-saving weather standardization, radiocommunications management, and information and communication technology (ICT)