International Interactive Session on “Borderless Roundtable in the Era of Digital Transformation” 2022

Let’s talk about daily life

This International Interactive session on the “Border-less round table in the era of Digital transformation” will be held on 26th February 2022 with the participation of school students of Japan, Sri Lanka, Northern Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Thailand, Vietnam and Bangladesh for the 3rd consecutive time via Zoom.

Purpose of the project Among remote islands and distant continents, the world is connected even during pandemic periods thanks to the Digital Transformation Era. Young people would create a sustainable world beyond 2025 for problem which will come after just three years, and they are expected to do so even after 20 years, and 100 years or so. Therefore, it is to create a platform for the young people from several countries to gather and talk about their daily life (i.e., food, fun, learning, hobbies etc.) to feel and understand cultural differences, different languages, common thoughts and wishes of people through this new form of international exchange. Hopefully, this program will allow the participants to create a set of values which would lead them for a brighter future in the era of Digital Transformation.

Date and time: Saturday, 26 February 2022, 8.30am – 10.00am SL Time

Host Venue: Kikai Town Hall (Kikai Island, Kagoshima, Japan)

Participating Island Countries/Regions:
★ Islands: Kikai Island(Japan), Colombo(Sri Lanka), Tinian(Northern Mariana Islands), Majuro(Marshall Islands)
★ Other regions: Bangkok(Thailand), Hanoi(Vietnam), Dhaka(Bangladesh)

International Interactive Session on “Borderless Roundtable in the Era of Digital Transformation” 2022 was a great success! 👩‍🏫👘🇯🇵🇱🇰

This International Interactive session on the “Border-less round table in the era of Digital transformation” was held on 26th February 2022 (8.30am – 10.30am SLST) with the participation of school students of Japan, Sri Lanka, Northern Mariana Islands, Marshall Islands, Thailand, Vietnam and Bangladesh for the 3rd consecutive time via Zoom.

The young people from several countries got a chance to discuss their daily life patterns in their different like styles (i.e., food, fun, learning, hobbies etc.) to feel and understand cultural diversity, different languages, common thoughts and wishes of people through this new form of international exchange.

This program was allowed the participants to create a set of values which would lead them for a brighter future in the era of digital transformation. This Project was content with two sessions

  • 1st session – Prerecorded movie exchange (using “Flipgrid”) which was created by participants. The movie session is about their cultural activities. Eg: The Sri Lankan students were presenting about Sri Lankan Cricket, Sri Lankan Food and also about Sinhala and Hindu New Year Festival.
  • 2nd Session – Real-time communication session. In this session participants were put into breakout rooms and gave them a chance to exchange their thoughts with other country students. Eg: Greetings, Oral presentation by delegates on Zoom, Casual meeting in a small room on Zoom.At the End of the Interactive Session the remarks were given by the organizing committee and a Group Picture was taken with all the participants.

All participants appreciated LNBTI for conducting these types of International Interactive sessions. Being a Japanese-based IT higher education institute, our intention is to educate and develop the youth to become resourceful young and strong professionals who could join the IT industry in Sri Lanka, Japan, or Worldwide.

Organized by Island Education Study Group (Representative: Tomio Uchida, Professor of Meisei University) Co-organized by Lanka Nippon BizTech Institute (Director for Academic Affairs: Dr. Aranda Kumara) Supported by Kikai Town Board of Education with the cooperation of Kikai High School