WIDE Project

The WIDE Project is made up of more than 100 loosely bound organizations including various corporations and universities. In recent years working groups have been set up under various research themes. The work carried out by over 730 researchers in Japan, collaborating with foreign researchers from all over the world.

The Project aims to construct a highly public information infrastructure that will contribute to society in a variety of fields including medicine, finance, education and law.

The basic philosophy of the WIDE Project lies in the provision of a global connection between computers and all other equipment and the construction of a distributed system that will serve a useful purpose from an individual and social viewpoint and to bring to the fore the relative issues and problems in order to bring this to fruition.