Moreover, local information technology (IT) firms have been carrying out a wide range of projects that combine cutting-edge technologies -- such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IOT), and robotics -- with various types of businesses and industries, and I hear that there are a growing number of examples of IT firms from Tokyo and elsewhere opening up offices within the prefecture with the active support of the local government.
On average across the EU, women account for only 33% of members of national parliaments, and just over one-quarter of the leaders of major political parties are women. [15] Only three in ten board members in large corporations in Europe are female. [16] And in my profession – central banking – Isabel Schnabel and I are the only women on the ECB’s Governing Council.