Green Energy & Expo

Biography

Biography: Hisakazu Okamura

Abstract

Smart-city, variety of the meaning of this word has been understood differently by many countries. I was leading the business of this smart-city in IBM Japan for decades, matter of fact we called it as smarter cities. Prior to the announcement of the smarter cities in 2008 with IBM, I established an environmental business unit in IBM Japan and collaborating the fellows in IBM all over the world. In the early stage of the city, consideration was supported by the global movement of the CO₂ consideration started with COP. Especially COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, the mood of global consistent agreement for the global warming correspondence became the peak in discussion. However, the result was the Paris agreement which was held in 2016, 7 years later. Besides, the IBM and the IT companies were leading smartcity business as a city innovation project supported by IT system by considering the global warming counter measurement, mainly the countries in Asia have been rushing to re-innovate super cities with the investment of China and European companies. Surely, we wanted to save this planet by considering energy efficient cities on green economy with the banner as “smart city” on but the smart city projects looking only at the economy were growing outside US and Japan. On the other hand, in 2011, Japan that had been leading green economy was hit by the great earth quake had only the choice to escape the green economy due to the energy crisis. In Asia, we have many developing and emerging countries that want to be developed countries on the investment from China and Europe. Different from the fundamental country needs and green economy requirements, they are rushing to be the high energy using countries because those investors want to implement their own solutions, not the fundamental requests from poverty, water security, and serious disease but high-tech roads and super transportations.