{"id":4032,"date":"2025-01-07T14:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:19:23","slug":"the-polar-connect-event-fosters-stronger-collaborations-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/the-polar-connect-event-fosters-stronger-collaborations-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Polar Connect Event Fosters Stronger Collaborations in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 16th December 2024 the North Pole Fiber project team hosted the Polar Connect Event in Tokyo, Japan. Supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swedenabroad.se\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Embassy of Sweden<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-sweden.com\/?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Business Sweden<\/a>, we invited regional governments, government agencies, commercial actors, and the main experts in Japanese connectivity to come together in the discussions about Arctic connectivity between Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event, with over twenty attendees, began with welcoming remarks by Ambassador <strong>Viktoria Li<\/strong> and Trade Commissioner <strong>Carsten Gr\u00f6nblad<\/strong>. Following this, presentations were delivered by <strong>Peter Fatelnig<\/strong> (Minister Counsellor for Digital Economy Policy at the Delegation of the European Union to Japan), <strong>Thomas Neidenmark<\/strong> (Senior Policy Officer, Government Offices of Sweden), <strong>Osamu Akashi<\/strong> (Project Professor, Deputy Director of Research and Development Center for Academic Networks, NII\/SINET) and <strong>Hirochika Asa<\/strong> (tech lead at ARENA-PAC), as well as a presentation on Polar Connect, by <strong>Valter Nordh<\/strong> (CEO of NORDUnet) and <strong>Per Nihl\u00e9n<\/strong> (CTO of SUNET and Head of Unit, Swedish Research Council).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Polar Connect Event was a success and provided an excellent opportunity to strengthen relations, to further implement <a href=\"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/Vision2030\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Polar Connect\u2019s Vision 2030<\/a> and advance the stakeholder engagement in the North Pole Fiber project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16th December 2024 the North Pole Fiber project team hosted the Polar Connect Event in Tokyo, Japan. Suppor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4036,"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions\/4036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polarconnect.net\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}