Opening ceremony of the NTT Client Innovation Center (CIC) in Belgium

On November 20, Ambassador Shimokawa attended the opening ceremony of the NTT Client Innovation Center (CIC) at NTT Belgium located in Diegem. Mrs. De Block, federal Minister of Social affairs, Public Health, Asylum policy and Migration, as well as representatives from ICT companies based in Belgium and other European countries, attended this ceremony.
NTT selected Belgium to settle its first CIC out of Asia. CIC is a customer-interactive meeting and briefing centre, seeking to disrupt existing business models and solve the clients’ challenges through “co-innovation”, and NTT’s innovative technologies applied to the near future society are on display. In his remarks, Ambassador Shimokawa expressed his expectation that NTT will further play its important role in strengthening cooperation in cutting-edge technology between Japan and Belgium.