Dec. /2025
(Panoramic View Reports)
Overview Report: Systems and Information Science and Technology Field
System and Information science and expertise (IT) is a flexible area of expertise that demonstrates its effectiveness throughout numerous domains, accelerating problem-solving in various areas and the creation of latest industries. It improves social techniques akin to social infrastructure together with power and transportation, in addition to administrative and resident companies, realizing effectivity and increased added worth not solely within the data and communication trade but in addition in manufacturing, service industries, agriculture, and extra. The effectiveness of digital innovation has been demonstrated worldwide in response to the unfold of the novel COVID-19 an infection, and the significance of IT continues to develop. Transformation by way of IT has additionally made important contributions to the development of scientific applied sciences akin to nanotechnology and life sciences. In nationwide safety as effectively, the function of expertise has change into essential, and IT is drastically reworking typical coverage instruments together with diplomacy, army, and economic system.
This overview report, in gentle of the latest developments and widespread adoption of synthetic intelligence (AI) applied sciences, presents the imaginative and prescient that IT goals for: a “Symbiotic Society with AI.”
Under this imaginative and prescient, analysis and growth had been reviewed from each views: the 4 sub-visions — “Co-creation with AI trusted and relied upon in various situations,” “Transformation of intellectual activities such as scientific research by AI,” “Solving complex social issues through human-AI co-creation,” and “Sustainable development of social infrastructure” — and the technological tendencies within the evolution of system and data science applied sciences, akin to “AI infrastructure supporting the knowledge revolution,” “Autonomization, physicalization, and generalization of AI,” and “AI transformation and responses to diversifying risks.”
We recognized strategically vital 38 R&D areas below the consideration of standards akin to “emerging technology”, “social needs and vision”, and “impact on society”. As proven in Figure, we categorized them into 6 divisions of “Artificial Intelligence”, “Robotics”, “Security and Trust”, “Computing Architecture”, “Communication and Network” and “Mathematical Sciences”.
A significant replace from “Panoramic View Report (2024)” is the revision of the overview classes. In the “Overview Report (2026)”, the 2024 version’s Social System Science class has been eliminated. Digital transformation and service science, which had been included within the Social System Science class, are actually addressed below Digital Social Services within the Computing Architecture class. Social system structure, mechanism design, and computational social science are actually coated below the Artificial Intelligence class, particularly in AI in Society, Human-AI Symbiosis Models, and AI Transformation of Science, Industry, and Social Systems, respectively.
The nationwide R&D funding technique with a persuasive situation to take care of world competitiveness is required, away from simply following the worldwide development of R&D, given Japan’s present social and financial scenario and R&D efforts, and place within the world competitors. In this report, we proposed 4 primary eventualities of “strengthening the advantage of technology”, “strengthening the advantage of internationally competitive industries”, “solving social problems prior to the other countries through utilization of social acceptability”, and “securing key infrastructure technologies for economic security”. We selected 10 vital themes primarily based on these 4 situation.
In planning R&D methods on this area, it’s mandatory to grasp not solely expertise tendencies but in addition interactions between society and IT in numerous types. In explicit, we should always at all times concentrate on the connection between technological progress and employment, the impression on the hole between wealthy and poor, ELSI (moral, authorized and social points) in science and expertise. In order to construct a sustainable society with the suitable growth of IT, numerous viewpoints from stakeholders are important. This overview report supplies a few of these viewpoints mandatory for that primarily based on a impartial survey and evaluation.