GLOCOM
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| Industry: | Education, Information & Communication |
| Founded: | 1991 |
| Founder(s): | International University of Japan |
| Headquarters: | Harks Roppongi Bldg. 2nd floor, <br.
6-15-21 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 |
| Country: | Japan |
| Key People | |
| Yotaro Kobayashi, Chairman Akira Miyahara, Vice Chairman，IUJ | |
GLOCOM (Center for Global Communication is a research institute focusing on studying the information & communication industry as well as the Japanese society.
History
The International University of Japan founded GLOCOM on April 1, 1991.[1] It's objective in establishing the center was to train outstanding leaders for international society and to become an international hub of research on Japanese society and to carry out comparative analysis and policy studies on contemporary politics, economy and culture from an interdisciplinary perspective.Dr. Yasusuke Murakami serves as the first director of GLOCOM [2]
Following its establishment, GlOCOM experimented on machine-translated electronic conferences on personal computer-based network and found the limitations in creating global networks. The result of the experiment served as a driving force for them to concentrate on the industry. On November 1992, GLOCOM established an international internet connection by obtaining the glocom.ac.jp domain and it also launched the Intelprise Enterprise Collaboration Project (IECP, to analyze the systems of the 21st century information industry and technology to be able to guide industries on future corporate activities and policies.[3]
Dr. Shumpei Kumon became director in 1993 and introduced new research systems focusing on the information society.The following year the center's website went online.