Hello! This is Nomu-Nomu who works at the Tokyo Honest Village. I'm the Newsletter Editor for this month.

We're currently in the middle “Golden Week”, which is big national holiday in Japan. I hope everyone's week is going well? I will be going to the Head Office in Kyoto for some training as a Facility Leader. I haven't been back since KISSY last summer, so I'm looking forward to seeing the fresh green leaves.

So for this month, first of all we have some comments from the Vice Chairman, Toshiyuki Takasaki. Mr Takasaki will be enrolling from this month onward at the Kyoto University Graduate School for a Postgraduate Business Course!
We also have a report from the Facility Leader in South Korea, Noyang, about the move from MIZY Center to Yeoksam Course Camp.

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1. For the year ahead Pangaea Vice Chairman, Toshiyuki Takasaki
2. South Korea Team have moved from the MIZY Center!
3.KDDI foundation are to fund KISSY
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1. For the year ahead Pangaea Vice Chairman, Toshiyuki Takasaki
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Hello everyone.
I've enrolled this April on the Postgraduate Business Course as part of the Department of Social Informatics at the Graduate School of Informatics in Kyoto University (that's long...)!

My Academic Supervisor is the father of the “Language Grid”, Toru Ishida. In order to to build “Pangaea's next image” I am going to discuss in my postgraduate thesis, from a social informatics point of view, about Pangaea activities, YMC, KISSY and other such things as part of my role as Chief Technology Officer.

I am going to continue to work together at the same time with Pangaea's current activities, such as KISSY2016 and E4P, but I hope that you will all watch over everything when I will soon be focusing my attention on my PhD study. Thank you!

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2. South Korea Team have moved from the MIZY Center!
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In South Korea, we’ve successfully set out 2016 Pangaea activity in March.

This year, in an effort to offer this great opportunity to more children, we moved our activity place from MIZY Center, where we’ve held Pangaea activity for 10 years, to Yeoksam Youth Camp, a public youth center in Seoul. The youth center(※) provides many programs for the local community, and we got the nicest room in the big building! ☺

20 participants and 11 facilitators joined this year, and we meet every 2 weeks from March
to June. We did our first PangaeaNet on 9th April, and the participants were so excited to meet new friends in Cambodia, Japan and Kenya. They sent a lot of messages and invitations to the participants overseas, so hope they can get many replies!

Since MIZY Center has been doing Pangaea activity for quite long time, we have many experienced facilitators who are so passionate and eager to make our activity more interesting and meaningful to children. Through this newsletter, MIZY would like to appreciate all the Pangaea facilitators in the world, who put their time and effort to make this world a better place by facilitating our dearest children.

+) We made a short video clip of Webcam activity with Kyoto in November, 2015, and here’s the URL:
https://youtu.be/6g-eYlsRQAk
Please check the video and feel the participants’ happiness! (Yumi is starring too!^^)

※ Youth Center...A public facility for helping young people with extracurricular instructional support activities

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3.KDDI foundation are to fund KISSY
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Photos are Here

I participated a presentation ceremony of KDDI Foundation on March 25th. They are to fund KISSY（Kyoto Intercultural Summer School For Youths）, which youths who have various nationality culture and region spend one week in Kyoto. This program with Ishida & Matsubara laboratory from Kyoto University is very innovative because youths who speak different languages respectively implement co creation. They overcome language barrier by using ICT tools for brainstorm and discussion. I hope ICT tools will help their ability　to solve their problem all over the world in the near future. Supported by volunteers, I decided to hold the program this year as well.
People who belong to Pangaea are pleased that we received such foundation. I’ll keep dedicating myself to this program. Thank you.
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