The Secretary for Security, Mr Tang Ping-keung, today (October 22) attended the induction course arranged for members of the Security Bureau Youth Uniformed Group Leaders Forum. The course signified the establishment of the Leaders Forum (Leaders Forum) and the launching of its one-year programme to contribute to the initiative in “The Chief Executive’s 2022 Policy Address” to deepen the participation of government departments and civil service grades in youth work.
Participating in the two-day, one-night induction course held at the Fire and Ambulance Services Academy in Tseung Kwan O, Mr Tang said, “Participants of the Leaders Forum are distinguished members of various youth uniformed groups of disciplined services with great potential, and they have been chosen as members of the Leaders Forum following rigorous selection. I hope that the members will take part in the diverse activities fully in the coming months to broaden their horizons and engage in public services, so as to offer advice to the Security Bureau (SB) on youth development work across disciplined services and organise the relevant activities in the future.” Mr Tang shared with members his experience in serving the community in his 30-odd years of public service and encouraged them to equip themselves and pursue excellence to become outstanding leaders.
There are 50 members aged from 15 to 25 in the Leaders Forum. Outstanding individuals in Hong Kong had been invited to share their experiences with members at the induction course, including the Chairman of the Leaders Forum Advisory Board and successful businessman, Mr Yeung Fun-bun, who shared the story of his entrepreneurial career; Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award winner and Hong Kong “fencing queen”, Ms Vivian Kong, who will share her experience in overcoming adversity; Legislative Council Member Dr Stephen Wong, who will talk about policy research; veteran media professional Mr Lo Wing-hung, who lectured on local and global developments; and the Executive Director of Outward Bound Hong Kong, Mr Nick Cotton, who spoke on the strategy of engaging with young people. In addition, the Fire and Ambulance Services Academy also provided a series of trainings on discipline, physical fitness and team building.
The Leaders Forum will hold diverse activities regularly, including sharing sessions on “one country, two systems”, studies on social issues, experiential learning and local or Mainland visits for members to gain inspiration and expand horizons.
In addition to the establishment of the Leaders Forum, the SB and the disciplined services will also implement other relevant initiatives in the Policy Address, including promoting national security education to enhance the national security awareness of about 10 000 youth uniformed group members of the disciplined services by the end of next year. They will also strive to increase the number of active members of the youth uniformed groups of the disciplined services and further strengthen the youth work to cultivate positive thinking, law-abiding awareness, sense of national identity and discipline and team spirit. Furthermore, together they will offer at least 100 internship places in the disciplined services to let members of the youth uniformed groups experience the disciplined services’ work and prepare them for a career in the disciplined services. Some 200 internship places will also be offered in different business sectors (including those in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area) for members of youth uniformed groups of the disciplined services.
At present, seven disciplined services and auxiliary services under the SB have established youth uniform groups, including the Customs Youth Leader Corps, the Correctional Services Department’s Rehabilitation Pioneer Leaders, the Fire and Ambulance Services Teen Connect, Junior Police Call, the Immigration Department Youth Leaders Corps, the Auxiliary Medical Service Cadet Corps and the Civil Aid Service Cadet Corps. The Government Flying Service has also established a partnership with Hong Kong Air Cadet Corps to organise youth activities on a regular basis.
Executive Producer Brenda L. Hovis-Fisher, formerly of RSA Entertainment, launched her own production company for women and underrepresented voices, Untamed River Media & Productions. The company’s focus will continue producing and distributing compelling films by native artists, people of color, and women of all kinds.
Top indie distribution power player and a woman-owned business, Indican Pictures, has picked up three major films from the company. Indican’s presence throughout the foreign market and territories, as well as its focus on empowering independent filmmakers, make it the prime outlet for these productions.
WINDIGO, an ancient Chippewa demon, is resurrected by a Native American teenager and his grandmother to protect their family after a run-in with back-woods meth dealers. They soon discover that the creature’s lust for killing cannot be controlled. As each killing bonds the teen and the Windigo ever closer, the family must find a way to break the curse before all of them become the blood-thirsty creature’s next victims. Produced by Gylden Entertainment, directed by Gabe Torres, and cast by Angelique Midthunder.
MANTRA is a thriller around a young man who is haunted by his murdered brother turns to a psychiatrist whose unorthodox treatment twists his world even further. Written and directed by Dan Franklin and Alex Suarez and starring Drake Roger from The Winchesters.
ALTER EGO is a story of a reclusive paranoia genius author who spends a night in his isolated mansion waiting for his creation to come and destroy him, directed and written by Ezio Massa, starring Dylan Walsh, Steve Stanulis, and the beloved Eric Roberts.
About Untamed River Media & Productions Untamed River Media and Productions is a Native American, woman owned production company specializing in podcasts, talent, production, and project management in the entertainment industry.
www.untamedriver.com @untamedrivermp
About Brenda L. Fisher Brenda Fisher, MBA, Founder and CEO of Untamed River Media & Productions, an entertainment company based in Los Angeles, CA, has over 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry. She attributes her career success both to her multiculturalism as a descendant of the Yakama Nation tribe, leading marketing and entertainment for the Native American casino industry, and to her early start producing and promoting live events and tours with world class performers.
About Indican Pictures Indican Pictures acquires and distributes feature films to a broad range of entertainment outlets. Our business model enables us to directly provide a diverse selection of independent film content (action, art-house, comedy, documentary, drama, family, foreign language, horror, rom-com, sci-fi, thriller, western) through our strategic partnerships, into all media platforms (theatrical, VOD/SVOD, home video, TV/broadcast, ancillary, educational), for consumer enjoyment.
www.indicanpictures.com
Media Contact: Lana Westbrook Production Manager | Untamed River Media & Productions lwestbrook@untamedriver.com
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TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director & CEO: Koichiro Tanaka), which operates the TANAKA Precious Metals manufacturing business, announced today that TANAKA has established a two-stage film deposition process using the liquid ruthenium (Ru) precursor “TRuST.” TRuST is a precursor that has excellent reactivity with both oxygen and hydrogen and can form high-quality ruthenium films. This process is a two-stage atomic layer deposition (ALD) process that uses hydrogen film formation to create a thin anti-oxidation film and oxygen for the deposition of a high-quality ruthenium film. It eradicates concerns that the substrate will become oxidized and, at the same time, can prevent the drop in ruthenium purity that occurs during hydrogen film deposition. The film deposition process was proposed by Professor Soo-Hyun Kim from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering, Yeungnam University in South Korea. The development and evaluation of the film deposition process were jointly conducted by Professor Kim and TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo.
This technology is expected to achieve greater miniaturization and improved durability of semiconductors. It can therefore be expected to be used in data centers and smartphones – which require even greater data processing capabilities – and contribute toward advanced technologies such as IoT and autonomous driving, which require sophisticated technological innovations.
Two-Stage Film Deposition Process Using Oxygen And Hydrogen
TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo is developing high-purity precious metal precursors?centered on ruthenium?for next-generation semiconductors. So far, single-stage film deposition using oxygen has been the mainstream process for film deposition. However, the company has now succeeded in a two-stage film deposition process using oxygen and hydrogen.
This two-stage film deposition process reduces the risk of surface oxidation of the base caused by hydrogen film deposition and allows high-purity film deposition that maintains ruthenium purity at almost 100% using oxygen film deposition. Furthermore, by forming the base first using hydrogen film deposition, the ruthenium film on top of the base created using oxygen film deposition will be smooth and dense, achieving a lower resistance than before.
Generally, specific resistivity increases when film thickness decreases, which is an issue in film deposition of semiconductors. With this new process, it was confirmed that an even lower resistance results from a two-stage film deposition that uses hydrogen in addition to oxygen film deposition, especially in the range of 10 nm and below. As semiconductors become even smaller in scale in the future, demand for thinner film deposition with low resistance is also expected for ruthenium films, and a two-stage film deposition allows this issue to be resolved. In addition, the new low-resistance, high-purity ruthenium film created by the two-stage film deposition can be achieved using the same raw materials and film deposition temperature for both stages. Therefore, film deposition is possible using the same film deposition equipment, allowing capital investment costs to be suppressed. Details will be announced at the AA2-TuA: ALD for BEOL session of the ALD 2022 conference being held in Ghent, Belgium, on June 28, 2022.
In the past, the most common thin film and wiring materials used for semiconductors were copper, tungsten, and cobalt, but there are increasing expectations for the precious metal ruthenium to promote greater miniaturization of semiconductors because of its lower resistance and higher durability. Therefore, TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo developed TRuST – a liquid ruthenium precursor for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and ALD that achieved the world’s highest vapor pressure value – and started providing samples in 2020.
By increasing to the world’s highest vapor pressure value, which is more than 100 times higher than existing precursors, this precursor raises the concentration of precursor in the film deposition chamber and the adsorption density of precursor molecules on the substrate surface, achieving excellent step coverage and improved film deposition speed.
State of the Semiconductor Industry and Background
The progress of advanced technologies such as IoT, AI, 5G, and the metaverse has led to rapidly increasing volumes of digital data used by digital devices such as smartphones. Therefore, in the development of semiconductors, the need for even greater miniaturization is increasing to enable the creation of devices with higher performance and lower energy consumption. In the aspect of durability, degradation due to base oxidation is also a major issue in semiconductor development. Furthermore, the development of electric vehicles and self-driving cars requires similar needs for the miniaturization of automotive semiconductors along with further improvement in durability.
In the semiconductor industry, which will require greater miniaturization and improved durability in the future, TANAKA Kikinzoku Kogyo seeks to further reduce costs and achieve higher quality by improving the film deposition speed of liquid ruthenium precursors. At the same time, the company will contribute to greater miniaturization and improved durability of semiconductors to support the development of new advanced technologies enabled by semiconductors.
Press release in PDF: https://www.acnnewswire.com/docs/files/202206_EN.pdf
About TANAKA Precious Metals
Since its foundation in 1885, TANAKA Precious Metals has built a portfolio of products to support a diversified range of business uses focused on precious metals. TANAKA is a leader in Japan regarding the volumes of precious metals handled. Over the course of many years, TANAKA has not only manufactured and sold precious metal products for industry but also provided precious metals in such forms as jewelry and assets. As precious metals specialists, all Group companies in Japan and around the world collaborate and cooperate on manufacturing, sales, and technology development to offer a range of products and services. With 5,193 employees, the group’s consolidated net sales for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2021, was 1,425.6 billion yen.
Global industrial business website https://tanaka-preciousmetals.com
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. (MHIENG), a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group company, has newly established a branch office in western Canada to conduct business relating to decarbonization. Located in Calgary in the province of Alberta, the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering Calgary Branch Office will enhance the company’s presence in the region by performing timely operations to introduce its carbon capture technologies, a field in which MHIENG holds a top global market share. Establishment of the new branch office is part of MHI Group’s energy transition program integrating its comprehensive expertise in carbon capture. Canada is highly proactive in pursuing environmental protection and is a promising market for Carbon dioxide Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) advancement. In 2019, the country introduced a federal carbon tax, with plans calling for progressive tax increases through 2030.
Further, multiple subsidy programs have been launched on the provincial level to support CCUS projects. Numerous potential projects are currently being studied across the country, namely Alberta and Saskatchewan province, concurrently with development of CCUS infrastructure including transportation and storage.
MHIENG’s new branch office in Canada will further enable MHI Group to respond swiftly to local market trends and customer needs. MHI Group also bolsters the sales capabilities of the other regional departments that are in charge of advancing the decarbonization business in the US (MHIA) and Europe (Decarbonization Business Department, MHI-EMEA, established July 2021). MHI Group is currently strengthening its position in the Energy Transition, and the development of a CO2 solutions ecosystem is a core component of that initiative. CCUS is garnering attention as an effective means for realizing a carbon neutral society.
Supporting the group’s strategy on the Energy Transition, MHIENG, as a leading company in the decarbonization area, will continue to help achieve wide-scale greenhouse gas emission reduction by introducing its high-performance CO2 capture technology globally. It will also press ahead in developing new proprietary technologies to contribute to global environment protection. For further information on MHIENG’s decarbonization products, visit: https://www.mhi.com/products/engineering/co2plants.html
About MHI Group
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group is one of the world’s leading industrial groups, spanning energy, logistics & infrastructure, industrial machinery, aerospace and defense. MHI Group combines cutting-edge technology with deep experience to deliver innovative, integrated solutions that help to realize a carbon neutral world, improve the quality of life and ensure a safer world. For more information, please visit www.mhi.com or follow our insights and stories on spectra.mhi.com.
Fujitsu Limited today announced the decision to establish a new organization to strengthen its governance of AI ethics.
Building and maintaining trust remains central to all of Fujitsu’s business activities, forming the basis of its Purpose–“to make the world more sustainable by building trust in society through innovation.” To realize the vision of a sustainable world through its global business brand “FUJITSU Uvance” which focuses on the solution of social issues, both services and technologies as well as trust in the Fujitsu Group will play an essential role.
In March 2019, Fujitsu formulated the “Fujitsu Group AI Commitment” to create greater value for customers and society while honoring its promise to deliver safe, secure, and transparent AI technology. With this commitment as a point of departure, in September 2019 Fujitsu further established the “Fujitsu Group External Advisory Committee on AI Ethics” to ensure an objective evaluation of Fujitsu’s AI ethics framework by an impartial third party. Since then, Fujitsu has continuously and proactively worked to enhance its corporate governance to enforce the principles of ethical AI.
On February 1, Fujitsu will newly establish the “AI Ethics and Governance Office” (Head: Junichi Arahori) to accelerate the safe and secure deployment of leading-edge technologies including artificial intelligence (AI) and other machine learning applications in society.
This marks the next step in Fujitsu’s ongoing efforts to strengthen and enforce comprehensive, company-wide measures to achieve robust AI ethics governance based on international best-practices, policies, and legal frameworks. The new office will focus on implementing measures to actively promote ethics related to the research, development, and implementation of advanced technologies.
About Fujitsu
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Approximately 126,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 3.6 trillion yen (US$34 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021. For more information, please see www.fujitsu.com.
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