I received a request for survey participation from the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTP) at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), so I’m sharing it here.
By the way, I was involved in formulating the topics as a committee member in the ICT and Analytics field.
Five of the 13 committee members—Chair Professor Noboru Koshizuka, Professor Hideyuki Tanaka, Professor Akihiro Nakao, and Professor Junichi Rekimoto—were faculty members at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Information Science and Technology (*^^*)
I suppose I’m also affiliated with the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology… though I’m just an alumnus ^^;
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The National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) under the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) is conducting its 11th “Science and Technology Forecast Survey (Delphi Survey)”* with the aim of contributing to discussions on the formulation of science, technology, and innovation policies, as well as research and development strategies.
This survey is a web-based questionnaire designed to gather expert opinions on the feasibility and importance of science and technology topics in the following seven fields.
We kindly ask all members to access the survey site below and assist us by completing the questionnaire.Please note that this survey will be conducted using the Delphi method, in which the same questions are repeated twice to converge the responses.
This is an opportunity to reflect the voices of experts in policy deliberations, so we sincerely appreciate your cooperation. We hope that participating in this survey will lead to new developments in your research.
　
[Survey Period] February 20, 2019 (Fri) – March 22, 2019 (Fri) (First Survey)
[Survey Site] http://www.nistep.go.jp/yosoku11-intro
◯ Target Fields:
① Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences; ② Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Food, and Biotechnology; ③ Environment, Resources, and Energy; ④ ICT, Analytics, and Services; ⑤ Materials, Devices, and Processes; ⑥ Urban Planning, Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Transportation; ⑦ Space, Ocean, Earth, and Scientific Infrastructure
◯ Survey Period:
・Survey 1: Begins February 20, 2019 (Response deadline: Late March)
・Survey 2: Scheduled to begin in April–May 2019 (Response deadline: Around June: Tentative)
*Please answer the same questions twice. We will send a separate email invitation to the second survey to those who completed the first survey.
[Contact Information (Survey Secretariat)]
Policy Research and Analysis Center, Institute for Future Engineering (Public Interest Incorporated Foundation)
　Contacts: Otake, Noro
　E-mail: yosoku11@ifeng.or.jp
*About the “Science and Technology Forecasting Survey (Delphi Survey)”
The Delphi Survey is an expert survey conducted approximately every five years since 1971 to identify the direction of medium- to long-term development in science and technology; this is the 11th iteration. For the 10th survey conducted in 2014, approximately 4,000 experts participated.
http://www.nistep.go.jp/yosoku11-intro?fbclid=IwAR14zrwFEoSRtrBPd0Ng64meRfM5fdpS1t5qiLVKjQQS8l-4siTqsTBEcEo