Education: BSc, and MSc, Rikkyo University, Tokyo; Dr. Eng., University of Tokyo

Associate professor of GLOCOM, International University of Japan since 1997. Specialized in the economic analysis of information industries.

Established the World Wide Vision Initiative (http:/www.wwvi.org) that aims at integrating broadcasting into the broadband Internet in 1999.

URL: http://www.glocom.ac.jp/users/ikeda/ikeda.e.html

March 1968 Earned Ph.D.(Electronic Engineering) from The University ofTokyo.

The Doctorate Dissertation was �gLarge Signal Analysis of Gunn Effect Oscillator�h.

Professional Experience:

1997 Named Representative Director and President, Texas Instruments Japan Limited

1994 Joined TI and elected to President and Director, Texas Instruments Research and Development Center Ltd. Also, named as Guest Professor at The University of Tokyo

1982�]1994 Professor at The University of Tokyo

1968�]1982 Associate Professor at The University of Tokyo

Others:

August 1989 Distinguished Lecturer at University of California, Santa Barbara

Sep. 1979�]Aug. 1980 Visiting Scientist at Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM, New York

Feb. 1971�]Aug. 1972 Guest Professor at Royal Institute of Technology, Microwave Institute Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

Toshiaki Ikoma is interested in exchanging views and opinions regarding IT infrastructure and advanced communications supported by the next generation multimedia, digital home electronics, etc. with the other members of the GIS 2000 Net Meeting.

1.Info/Telecommunication(Research on policy and legislative issues; Business match-making)

2.Education/Training(Education/training on internet; Exchange/intern-ship programs)

3.Academic-Business Alliance/Incubator(US-Japan collaboration; Support service for venture/entrepreneur companies)

Selected Books:
""Clinton's Strategy to Japan"", ""US Intended Hegemony Seen in Its Information Structure"",""Influence of US NII and its Policies on Asian NII""

Selected Speech:
""US Distance Learning"", ""US NII: Its Bright Side and Shadow", "US Information Strategy and Japan's Policy"", ""Future of Internet Multimedia"", ""Revitalization of Local Economy and Development of Entrepreneur""

We are going to launch soon ""US-Japan Entrepreneur Forum"" with membership of American and Japanese entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C., New York, Boston and Atlanta. Its membership will be soon extended to other parts of US and Japan. "

The nursing care insurance will be launched in April of 2000.

�gI-Kaigo Com�h (I-Kaigo stands for love & nursing care) is a web site that offers the people nursing-related information and a place to communicate with others who are also involved in �gnursing care�h.

I also have been actively engaged in discussion on electronic commerce at Keidanren in Japan.

Fujiyo Ishiguro has more than 15 years experience in strategic marketing and business development in cross-cultural markets. Prior to joining Netyear, Fujiyo was president of Alphametric, a consulting firm that creates alliances between Japanese and Silicon Valley technology companies. She advised many Japanese companies about strategic alliances as well as investments in Silicon Valley startups.

During her four years at Alphametric, she developed a growing stable of clients, including Sony, Panasonic, NTT, NEC, Toshiba, Fujitsu, and Dentsu. Fujiyo also advised American companies about entering the Japanese market.

Before Alphametric, she was a manager of international marketing and business development for multinational high-tech companies both in the US and in Japan.

Fujiyo graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with an MBA, with a concentration in marketing and strategy for high-tech companies. She hold BSdegree for economics from Nagoya University.

His responsibilities include developing and overseeing practices and controls under which ICB administers secure internet services to various developing nations on behalf of their respective governments. Over the last two years Paul has been one of the authors designing the protocols supporting the exchange of legally binding documents and signatures within the European Community. In 1996 ICB was one of the founding members of the ""Open access to electronic commerce for European SMEs"" Memorandum of Understanding now adopted by 142 multi-national companies.

Paul is currently on secondment as General Manager, to INternet ONE, a testbed project of the Group of 8 Industrialized Nations Information Society facilitating increased consumer confidence, competitiveness and participation in global trade for Small to Medium sized Enterprises (SME's). INternet ONE has won number of awards, most recently from the Research Institute of Computer Science, Tokyo, and Best Consumer Customer Service at the Internet Industry Awards 1999.

One service of INternet ONE Japan is he empowerment of the kanji character set for use as a domain name see http://www.nic.jp.io/

He worked in international fields of NTT including an assignment at NTT New York Office(1983-1986)

He was in charge of development and market introduction of "OCN service"(first internet service in Japan by telephone company)(1995-1998)

NTT NaviSpace is providing various internet services including internet advertising, messaging services, document delivery serif, and internet shopping. NTT Learning Systems has been an active player of technology based training services/systems, and now is providing web-based training