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[CSK Group]
CSK Group contributes to society by respecting humanity and by developing its human resources. CSK Group promotes a series of activities through CAMP (Children's Art Museum & Park) as part of its social contribution program with the cooperation of many collaborators such as universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States as well as various research institutions, corporations, and children's museums and science museums both in Japan and overseas.
Details of CSK group's social contribution activities can be seen on this website:
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[CAMP (Children’s Art Museum & Park)]
CSK Group's CAMP activities are designed to develop the potential in children by opening up new possibilities for the future. Activities are based at the Okawa Center which was founded in April 2001 at Kansai Science City. We offer a variety of workshops that develop children's creativity and ability to express themselves using various mediums including digital and analog technologies and art, etc.
CAMP workshops develop children's critical thinking abilities and bring out their creativity based on the facilitation technique with a different approach from conventional models of education that rely greatly on knowledge acquisition through memorization. Also, CAMP's innovative workshops are proposing new ways of education to society in a broad sense.
About the CAMP Concept
*CAMP is acclaimed as “a new style of corporate social contribution” and has won Japan's prestigious “Good Design Award”.
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[Okawa Center]
 Founded by the late Isao Okawa for the key players of the future (*1).
In April of 2001, CSK Corporation and the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications founded the Okawa Center, a research facility, in Kansai Science City. The late Isao Okawa, founder of the CSK Group, believed that “children will lead the creation of an information society”. There are two places that will give shape to this notion: the Okawa Center for Future Children (or MIT Okawa Center *2) under construction in the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and this Okawa Center.
Through CAMP activities, the Okawa Center provides opportunities for children to experience various forms of communication and expression. |
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*1: “For the Key Players of the Future,”
The event that propelled the foundation of the Okawa Center, whose ideal is “for the key players of the future,” was the Junior Summit, an international meeting held for opinion exchange between children, the torchbearers of the future. Following the first Summit held in Tokyo in 1995, the second summit, sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was held in November 1998 to propose and work towards implementing “action plans to change the world.” This worldwide event began in 1995 with a proposal by the late Isao Okawa at the G7 meeting on information technology and communications in Belgium. |
*2: MIT Okawa Center
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), with a private donation by the late Isao Okawa, are now establishing the Okawa Center for Future Children to expand and develop research at the MIT Media Lab. Using the latest digital technologies, there are plans at the Center for researchers from around the world, together with children, to advance research into new styles of learning and playing and new methods of expression for the children of the future. |
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