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Takafumi Ochiai

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Global Affiliate Visiting Scholar, 2019-20
The Asahi Shimbun Company
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Takafumi Ochiai is a global affiliate visiting scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2019-20. Ochiai has over 9 years of experience as an engineer at The Asahi Shimbun, the national leading newspaper company in Japan.  At The Asahi Shimbun, he engaged in R&D about artificial intelligence, launches of new media services, and development of a data analytics system.  While at Shorenstein APARC, his research will focus on data science, data-based decision making, and organizational change. 

Shintaro Nishihara

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Global Affiliate Visiting Scholar, 2019-20
Future Architect
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Shintaro Nishihara is a global affiliate visiting scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2019-20.  Nishihara has experience and knowledge working in information technology, project management and the retail industry. Currently, he is a director at Future Architect, an IT consulting service in Japan, where his most recent project optimized logistics and improved ordering accuracy using artificial intelligence.  He graduated from Kyoto University in Japan with a BS in Integrated Human Studies.

Makoto Kanemaru

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Global Affiliate Visiting Scholar, 2019-20
Mitsubishi Electric
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Dr. Makoto Kanemaru is a global affiliate visiting scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2019-20.  Kanemaru works as an electronic manufacturer for the research and development department at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in Japan.  He is a researcher in preventive maintenance engineering for industrial motor and renewable energy systems.  He received his PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2011.  During his fellowship at Shorenstein APARC, his research will focus on trends and future of IoT and open innovation in manufacturing technologies of electrical equipment.

 

Yongmin (Terry) Hu

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Global Affiliate Visiting Scholar, 2019-20
FountainVest Partners
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Yongmin (Terry) Hu is a global affiliate visiting scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2019-20.  Hu is a co-founder and co-president of FountainVest Partners, a China focused private equity fund with asset under management of approximately US$5 billion.  Prior to co-founding FountainVest in 2007, he was a Managing Director at Temasek Holdings as well as a member of Temasek's global investment committee and head of its real estate investment.  Previously, Hu was a investment banker with Credit Suisse and Bear Stearns in Hong Kong and Shanghai for over 10 years.  Hu graduated from Fudan University in Shanghai with a Bachelor of Art Degree in English Language and Literature.

Debating Artificial Intelligence: The Fox Versus the Hedgehog

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Singapore in Southeast Asia and Stanford University in the United States are focal points for discussions of AI and how it can be made to help—not hurt—human beings. In a piece written for RSIS Commentaries, Don Emmerson, Director of the Southeast Asia Program at APARC, uses a recent panel at Stanford to illustrate the difficulty and necessity of bringing both generalist and specialist perspectives to bear on the problem.

Singapore has been described as “a thriving hub for artificial intelligence.” In May 2019, Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) released the first edition of “A Proposed Model AI Governance Framework.”

That “accountability-based” document would “frame the discussions around harnessing AI in a responsible way” by “translat[ing] ethical principles into practical measures that can be implemented by organisations deploying AI solutions”. The guiding principles it proposes to operationalise are that AI systems should be “human-centric” and that decisions made by using them should be “explainable, transparent, and fair”….

Read the full article on RSiS Commentaries.

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Democracy’s Dilemma

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This document is a memo from the "Global Populisms and their International Diffusion Conference" held at Stanford University on March 1-2, 2019.

This is a work in progress. DO NOT cite without checking with the authors first.

 

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Renee DiResta

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Renée DiResta is the former Research Manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory. She investigates the spread of malign narratives across social networks, and assists policymakers in understanding and responding to the problem. She has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations, and has studied disinformation and computational propaganda in the context of pseudoscience conspiracies, terrorism, and state-sponsored information warfare.

You can see a full list of Renée's writing and speeches on her website: www.reneediresta.com or follow her @noupside.

 

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Ill Winds: Book Launch and Discussion with Larry Diamond

Please join Larry Diamond, Senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs and the Hoover Institution for the launch of his latest book, "Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency."

 

Featuring a Panel Conversation with:

 

Zin Mar Aung

Burmese MP and political activist

 

Vladimir Kara-Murza

Russian journalist and anti-corruption crusader

 

Cara McCormick

CEO, Chamberlain Project, Co-founder/Co-leader of The

Committee for Ranked Choice Voting in Maine

 

*Reception to follow

Bechtel Conference Center

Encina Hall

616 Serra Mall

Stanford, CA 94305

Launch of the 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index

2019 Ranking Digital Rights
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Lunch: 1:00 pm
Program: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm


Join Stanford's Global Digital Policy Incubator (GDPi), Ranking Digital Rights (RDR), the Center for Internet and Society (CIS), and the Digital Civil Society Lab (DCSL) for the West Coast debut of the 2019 Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index. The RDR Index is the leading ranking of 24 of the world’s most powerful telecommunications, internet, and mobile companies on their commitments and policies affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy.

The 2018 RDR Index highlighted notable progress since the first RDR Index in 2015, but found that companies still leave users in the dark about many important policies and practices affecting users’ rights.

What has or has not changed in the past year? How do the latest RDR Index findings relate to global regulatory debates about privacy, disinformation, and hate speech online? An overview of the 2019 results will be followed by a discussion of what needs to be done to ensure that technology is designed and governed in a way that is compatible with democracy and human rights.

 

Speakers:

  • Rebecca MacKinnon, Director, Ranking Digital Rights | @rmack
  • Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability, Stanford Center for Internet and Society | @daphnehk
  • Chinmayi Arun, Assistant Professor of Law, National Law University Delhi / Fellow, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University | @chinmayiarun

Moderated by Kip Wainscott, Senior Advisor (Silicon Valley), National Democratic Institute | @kwainscott

 

 

Parking spots (payable via visitor parking permit vending machines) are available near Encina Hall at the Visitor Center Track House lot, KnightManagement Center garage, Galvez Lot, and Wilbur Field Garage.

Japan in the Bay Area: From Competition to Collaboration

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The Bay Area Council Economic Institute and the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Japan Program invite you to a forum on the critical transformations underway in Japan’s economy and the unique synergies that connect it to the Bay Area. The program will include a discussion of the high-level findings of a new report by the Bay Area Council Economic Institute on Japan’s economic engagement in the San Francisco/Silicon Valley Bay Area, and the role the region is playing as California and Japan look to expand trade and investment and accelerate innovation. Leading experts and practitioners from both Japan and the Bay Area will join us for this discussion. 

This event is brought to you by the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Japan Program and the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, in cooperation with the Japan Society of Northern California.

 

Agenda

 

1:00pm          Welcome

     Jim Wunderman, President & CEO, Bay Area Council

     Hon. Tomochika Uyama, Consul General of Japan

     Takeo Hoshi, Director, Shorenstein APARC Japan Program

1:10pm          Introduction of Bay Area Council Economic Institute Report: High-Level Findings

     Sean Randolph, Senior Director, Bay Area Council Economic Institute

1:30pm          Observations and Silicon Valley Overview

     Kenji Kushida, Research Scholar, Stanford University

1:45pm          Panel 1: The Emerging New Japan 

     Kanetaka Maki, Associate Professor, Waseda Business School

     Mio Takaoka, CFO, Medical Note and Partner, Arbor Ventures

     Takeshi Ebihara, Founding GP, Rebright Partners

     Emre Yuasa, Principal, Globis Capital Partners

     Sean Randolph, Senior Director, Bay Area Council Economic Institute (Moderator)

2:45pm          Panel 2: Japanese Companies in Silicon Valley Creating Value in New Ways

     Hiroshi Menjo, Managing Partner, Net Service Ventures

     Tsunehiko Yanagihara, Executive VP, Mitsubishi Corp M-LAB

     Gen Isayama, General Partner & CEO, World Innovation Lab

     Dennis Clark, Managing Director, Honda Innovations

     George Saikalis, SVP & CTO, Hitachi America, Ltd.

     Kenji Kushida, Research Scholar, Stanford University (Moderator)

4:00pm         Closing Remarks 

Bechtel Conference Center
Encina Hall
616 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

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Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project
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