On December 11, 2008, kcg.edu group signed a partnership agreement with the Jeju Knowledge Industry Promotion Agency, an ICT-related organization in Jeju Special Self-Governing Province, Korea.
As an emergency measure due to the recent severe economic downturn, KCGI has decided to expand its academic assistance by establishing a new scholarship program in fiscal year 2009.KCG is also planning to establish a similar scholarship program.There are two types of new scholarship programs, both of which, like KCG's scholarship programs, provide interest-free loans for tuition and other expenses, with repayment beginning after graduation (at least 20,000 yen per month).Open to both new and current students.
On Friday, November 7, 2008, the 2008 Fall Conference of the International CIO Society was held at Waseda University, and two presentations were made by our students.Both groups plan to submit the results of their conference presentations to the Transactions of the International Conference on CIO.The presentation will include the following
The Japan Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (NAIS) will hold a lecture on Monday, December 15.
We are looking for a wide range of participants, so please come and join us.
The first distance lecture connecting KCGI and National Jeju National University in Jeju, Korea via the Internet was realized on Thursday, November 6.The first lecture, "Internet Business Strategy and Marketing," was given by Professor Noboru Koh, originating from Room 205 at the KCGI Hyakumanben Campus.Professor Koh is a native of Korea and has served as Director of the Information Strategy Department of the Strategic Planning Office of Samsung Electronics Co.
(Yodogawa-ku, Osaka ) won the automatic navigation competition at the " MDD Robot Challenge 2008 " (sponsored by the Embedded Systems Society of Information Processing Society of Japan ) held at the National Olympics Memorial Youth Center in Yoyogi, Tokyo on Wednesday, October 29, 2008.
The "Japan-Korea Joint Seminar" was held by the Kyoto Institute of Information Science and Technology (KII) and the Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), a Korean government-affiliated information and telecommunications research institute, on October 30 and 31 at Kyoto Ekimae Satellite, Kyoto Institute of Information Science, and Kyoto Computer Gakuin Kyoto Ekimae Campus.
KCGI and Jeju National University in Jeju Island, South Korea, signed an agreement in September to establish a Japan-Korea Cyber Campus, which will allow students from both universities to exchange courses via the Internet and take courses with each other.And on Thursday, November 6, at 1:00 p.m., we will hold our first tele-lecture.
On September 25, 2008, Kyoto Institute of Information Science and Technology and Jeju National University in Korea signed an agreement on the establishment of a "Japan-Korea Cyber Campus," which will allow students from both universities to attend lectures via the Internet.
On Saturday, September 29, the ET Robocon 2008 Kansai Regional Competition will be held at Kyoto Computer Gakuin Kyoto Ekimae Campus.