Akio Kokubu is Executive Director of New Media Development Association (NMDA) where he has been working on interoperability issue of biometrics e-passports and smart card deployment as an national information infrastructure in Japan. He is Chairman of Biometrics Security Cosortium (BSC) and Fellow of Next Generation IC Card System Study Group (NICSS).
He also holds Vice President of Internet Association Japan (IAjapan) concuurently, where he has been working on development of filtering functions for the advanced Internet, rules and manners for children on the Internet, and operation of the national hotline center for the Internet in Japan.
He worked on architecture of computer systems with the Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), Agency of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan for more than twenty years. He was Researcher at Centre Mondial Informatique in Paris (1982), Visiting Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering at Iowa State University (1973-1974).
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