“CiP, Contents Information Project” to create a special zone concentrated on the digital content industry in Takeshiba, Minami-ku—The Pop & Tech Special Zone CiP. With the establishment of the incorporated association “CiP, Contents Information Program,” progress is being made toward the “town opening” in 2020.
60 companies and organizations from a broad range of sectors such as communications, broadcasting, IT, music, animation, computer games, entertainment, advertising, commerce, venture capital [VC], and schools, participate in collaboration with a number of government bodies including the Cabinet Secretariat, Cabinet Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Area accredited as a National Strategic Special Zone by the Prime Minister of Japan, and is being developed as a “testbed.” The Artist Commons, digital signage experiments, and projects such as the Global Otaku Research Institute (provisional name) are already up and running.
CiP fund is to be launched as a pillar to support entrepreneurship. Enhance entrepreneurial support and business-matching initiatives in conjunction with promoting a scheme for “transcending school boundaries” by inviting a satellite office from “i-University,” etc.
Strengthen collaboration with towns in Kyoto, Fukuoka, Okinawa, etc., and with overseas institutions including Stanford University, the University of London, the Malaysian Imagineering Institute, and the Korea Creative Content Agency.
