Our Organization

A glance at the Board for Scientific Research Digital Platform and the SINET Promotion Office

National Institute of Informatics (NII) is in charge of the overall management, operation and plan on SINET.

Board for Scientific Research Digital Platform

Science Information NETwork(SINET) is operated collaboratively and cooperatively by Nationwide Sharing Information Technology Centers at universities and research institutions and the Research and Development Center for Academic Networks in the National Institute of Informatics (NII), under the control of the Board for Scientific Research Digital Platform, which is a joint body between universities and research institutions and NII.

The Board for Scientific Research Digital Platform was relaunched in FY2022 as a result of reorganization of the Organization for Science Network Operations and Coordination.

SINET Promotion Office

There are two other organizations concerned with SINET. One is the Network Group in the Research and Development Center for Academic Networks and the other is the SINET Promotion Office in the Academic Infrastructure Division in the Cyber Science Infrastructure Development Department.

Mission

The SINET Promotion Office provides the following services to promote the advanced use of SINET.

  1. User consultation/response
    Consulting on the use of network services
  2. Interviews/surveys on user requests
    Solicitation of comments and requests for SINET
  3. Troubleshooting support for performance-related problems
    Support for network service usage problems and performance improvements
  4. Technology promotion and educational campaign (lectures and technological exchanges)
    Presentations on using SINET, educational campaign, case examples of SINET promotion, creation of documentation, and publication of information on the Web.

* As used above, “network services” refers to services provided by SINET, including multi-layer services, multi-VPN services and network information provision services, while “users” refers to academic research institutions and academic communities that make use of the network services.

SINET Promotion Office Members

Click on the name of any member to view the research profile of the relevant member on the National Institute of Informatics (NII) website or on the researchmap website.
(As of April 3, 2023)

AIDA Kento(Professor)Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division
AKASHI Osamu(Project Professor)Research and Development Center for Academic Networks
FUKUDA Kensuke(Professor)Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division
JI Yusheng(Professor)Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division
KITAGAWA Naoya(Project Associate Professor)Research and Development Center for Academic Networks
KOIBUCHI Michihiro(Professor)Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division
KURIMOTO Takashi(Professor)Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division * SINET Promotion Office Manager
SASAYAMA Koji(Project Professor)Research and Development Center for Academic Networks
TAKAKURA Hiroki(Professor)Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division
URUSHIDANI Shigeo(Professor)Information Systems Architecture Science Research Division
YAMANAKA Kenjiro(Project Researcher)Advanced ICT Center

Inquiries

Academic Infrastructure Division, SINET Promotion Office
e-mail: support[@]sinet.ad.jp

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