Feb 2007 Newsletter: Toshi's Monthly Note
January has passed like a flash. This month, I made a presentation
to some companies, explained at annual Pangaea board meeting,
attended an academic conference called IWIC 2007, and announced
my project plan for IPA Exploratory Software Project. In addition,
we had the first activity at Mie University and participated in an
activity at Kyoto R&D center. So, it was a good start for the year
as I set this year's goal as going further into Pangaea's mission.
IWIC2007 stands for the International Workshop on Intercultural
Collaboration. It was the first academic conference hosted by
Toru Ishida, a professor of Kyoto University. Since the workshop
focused on intercultural collaborations, it attracted 103 participants
from 24 countries. Those participants were researchers of
linguistics and computer science, researchers who do an analysis of
intercultural collaboration from on-site observation and NPO like
us and private companies who conduct intercultural collaboration.
It was a great opportunity for NPO Pangaea to hear diverse and
meaningful ideas covering practical and theoretical approach.
Yumi gave a speech on "Atoms of bonding: Communication Components
Bridging Children Worldwide" as an invited speech. I gave a
presentation on a accepted paper on Design and Development of
Pictogram Communication System. Also Ms. Heeryon Cho, who appeared
on a December newsletter, wrote a paper about analysis on Pictogram
survey by cultural dependence and non-cultural dependence and
attracted the participants. The contents of workshop will be
published by a very prestigious publisher of academic books, Springer.
Check on "http://langrid.nict.go.jp/iwic2007" for more information.
February will also be busy month as I've got to fly abroad. I will go to a Vienna branch to hold facilitator training sessions and Mie, Japan to do a rehearsal of a collaborative activity coming in March at Mie University, and then I will attend a conference of IPA Exploratory Project. Recently, I hear that more and more people become interested to Pangaea. Thanks to your continuous support, I have a feeling that we are moving to a next phase. So please keep watching Pangaea!
Toshiyuki Takasaki
February will also be busy month as I've got to fly abroad. I will go to a Vienna branch to hold facilitator training sessions and Mie, Japan to do a rehearsal of a collaborative activity coming in March at Mie University, and then I will attend a conference of IPA Exploratory Project. Recently, I hear that more and more people become interested to Pangaea. Thanks to your continuous support, I have a feeling that we are moving to a next phase. So please keep watching Pangaea!
Toshiyuki Takasaki
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