Sato (Tuesday) on September 25 (Tuesday) as an after-sales follow-up of the “Youth“ Shi ”Meeting” (the name of this year is “Yamaguchi Mirai Restoration School”), a 2017 related event hosted by Yamaguchi Prefecture held last year. Two students from the seminar visited Data Cubic Co., Ltd. to exchange opinions.

　The youth "will" meeting was to think about ideas for solving regional issues in Yamaguchi Prefecture. The students thought that there were many good companies in Yamaguchi Prefecture, but that information was not sufficiently transmitted, and that this did not lead to population retention. As a solution, he proposed an idea to create a mechanism and organization that collects and matches information on students and local companies using AI (artificial intelligence) and apps called "regional information trading companies". Data Cubic Co., Ltd., the destination of this visit, is a group company of Yamaguchi Financial Group, Inc., which supports the problems faced by local businesses through data analysis and the use of AI. I was invited to this time because it would be helpful for students' ideas and would like to refer to the opinions of students (coordinated with YMFG ZONE Planning).

　Through visits and exchanges of opinions, the students seemed to be interested in companies (and banks that under the umbrella) seeking points of contact with the community through information and technology. In addition, although there were similarities, they seemed to feel the coarseness of their ideas in terms of feasibility such as data collection. Mr. Tsuyoshi Tokuhisa, General Manager of Information Utilization Division of Data Cubic Co., Ltd., said, "The opinions that came out through the experience of job hunting (students) were interesting and helpful." Students will go to society from now on, but I hope that they will gain strength (knowledge, skills, personal connections) through their work and gradually shape ideas.

(Associate Professor Yuya Sato of Basic Education and Liberal Arts Education)