HIDA Journal 2017 SPRING No.10

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HIDA JOURNAL2Examples of HIDA’s Training Programs for Human Resource Development This is a story of NAKANIHON AIR SERVICE CO., LTD., as to how they utilized HIDA’s Training Program in Japan (TPIJ). This company offers services in two scopes of business: aviation such as an air ambulance service and research and survey. Its survey business arm utilizes a range of survey technologies to provide various services. It established an asso-ciated company in Nepal 20 years ago, and has utilized HIDA’s TPIJ since FY2006 to help develop Nepalese workforce. We asked Mr. Naoaki Murate, an executive ofcer and Deputy Director of Research and Survey Division, about background of company’s expansion to Nepal, his impression of HIDA program, and about the training.Main Ofce:2-banchi, Aza Tonogama, Oaza toyoba, Toyoyama-cho, Nishikasugai-gun, AichiEstablishment:1953Capital:¥ 120,000,000Employees:742Business:GIS systems, map data development, land survey, and consultancyAdvancing Survey Mapping Technologies—Twenty Years with Nepalese IT Engineers—NAKANIHON AIR SERVICE CO., LTD.First of all, will you share with us how your company came to expand into Nepal? It must have been 20 years this year since GeoSpatial Systems Pvt., Ltd. was established in 1997.Our ties with Nepal started in 1982. Under a Japanese govern-ment funded overseas development aid (ODA) project, a small scale hydro-electricity plant was planned to be built in Nepal. Our company’s rst involvement with the country was transportation of a helicopter to the site, for carrying construction materials. Kathmandu is situated at a high altitude of 1,300 m. We shipped the helicopter by sea from Japan to India, and then ew it over to Kathmandu for transportation of goods within the country. This work then led to our building friendship with Nepalese companies. We learnt Nepal had many superb IT engineers. This realization, along with our own high workload back in Japan, led us to the decision to found a joint-venture company in Nepal and to transfer a part of our workload there.After you established the local venture company, it was the year 2006 when you rst used the TPIJ by then AOTS (now HIDA). Can you tell us how you found out about the program?We indeed had brought trainees to Japan to train at our company. But, as we could not give them good instruction of Japanese language or prepare sufciently systematic technical teaching program for them; both we, who were trying to teach, and the Nepalese trainees, who were being taught, found it a hard going. It was then, when the Nepalese president of the associate company suggested us to use the HIDA program. We did not know about HIDA ourselves. But the Nepalese president had underwent training with HIDA, and had a high esteem for the HIDA programs.Since then, you have annually accepted 2–4 engineers to Japan for training. What do you aim to achieve through continuing with Japan based training?Even for training purposes, it would be a big ask for the Nepalese company to send many of its excellent local engineers over to Japan for a long term. For us, who in the position to host them, it would not be possible to provide sufcient instruction for all of them. So that is why we settled to accept 2–4 at a time. Also, with survey technology constantly developing year after year, we need to keep up with the progress by ongoing training. When we started, we provided training in digitization of paper maps and diagrams using Digitizer and map data entry/editing software. Later, when digital camera became widely used in aerial photog-raphy and map itself was digitally compiled, our training included the technic for directly obtaining map data from aerial image data (mapping). Most recently the training involved editing of 3D altitudinal data, obtained by the aerial laser survey: a technology to measure topography using laser. We hope to have our trainees A scene of STTNakanihon Air Service Research and Survey Division Building

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