Doga｜どがっち

Doga Makiura

Title：Needs-One Co., Ltd. Co-founder, Social Entrepreneur 

Official HP, Blog：www.dogamakiura.com

Twitter: @DogaMakiura

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Since 2012, Doga led an agricultural business with international cooperation agencies, connecting between farmers and the market in East Africa, mainly Rwanda. Project expanded to over 30 cooperatives and over 100 tonnes of agricultural products were provided to over 100,000 people. In 2014, Doga was featured by TED as ''one of the 12 young people around the world''. Doga co-founded an IT-health service ''Personal Data Bank'' in Thailand. Currently, he lives in the Philippines to expand an EdTech service ''Quipper'' worldwide. He is also chosen as ''one of the 100 people to change Japan'' by AERA. He also contributes to a discussion about the National Strategic Special Zones in the Cabinet Office, Japan. Author of ''Africa, Rwanda - It's next possibility.''. Co-President of ''OPEN POLITICS'', a political organization that promotes the reduction of candidacy age in Japan. Doga loves to swim, bike, run and his holiday destination is always where his next triathlon race will be held.

・World Economic Forum: Global Shaper

・University of Tokyo, Center for Spatial Information Science：Collaboration Researcher

・World's first stone fire pot hot spring mist bath ''Tojiba Le Furo''：Board Member

・An NGO ''Asha Society'' that works with around 500,000 people in nearly 60 slum colonies of Delhi, India.：Ambassador

・『Social Business Lab』(Japanese)：Co-founder

・『Future of Drones』(Japanese)：Co-founder