Held the "5th NTT Group CSR Conferences"

1. Event Overview

We have held the NTT Group CSR Conference every year since fiscal 2014 in order to promote understanding of CSR across the entire NTT Group. The conference for fiscal 2018, the fifth such conference, was held in February 2018 and attended by around 200 people including CSR and the environmental staff from Group companies as well as employees and others with an interest in CSR.

Senior Executive Vice President delivers opening remarks: "let's strive to become a Value Partner continually chosen by customers"

To kick off the conference, Jun Sawada, Representative Member of the Board and Senior Executive Vice President, CSR Committee Chairperson, delivered the opening remarks about how employees need to think about CSR on a daily basis. Sawada explained that thinking about CSR is the same as thinking about business, while looking back on the NTT Group's operating environment. He also called on employees to aim to become a Value Partner continually chosen by customers.

He added that the NTT Group's mission is to help support society, create new social infrastructure, and innovate organizations in society and in the corporate world. To fulfill this mission, Sawada talked about the need for management with integrity and becoming a group of companies that is continually trusted by its diverse stakeholders.

Senior Executive Vice President Sawada delivering the opening remarks

Presentations on Seven Superior CSR Initiatives and Three Social Contribution Ideas

After the opening remarks, the Presentation of Superior CSR Initiatives was held, where seven initiatives selected out of 45 entries were shared by Group companies in Japan and abroad. Staff from everis in Chile and Dimension Data in South Africa took part in the presentations, giving a global flair to the event. Subsequently, during the Presentations on Social Contribution Ideas, which have been continued since fiscal 2015, out of the 119 ideas submitted by employees from throughout the Group, three were selected to make presentations.

As a result, four of the Superior CSR Initiatives were selected as CS Grand Prize finalists, with one to be awarded the CSR Grand Prize and the other three to be recognized with the CSR First Prize in May 2018. Among the Social Contribution Ideas, the one presented by NTT DOCOMO about letters and albums to be sent to children around the world with intractable diseases to fulfill their dreams and give them courage was recognized with the Grand Prize.

Panel discussion with Dai-ichi Life on the theme of instilling CSR philosophy

The panel discussion featured a presentation of activities and discussions by representatives from Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc. on the theme of instilling a company's CSR philosophy.

Scene from the panel discussion

The display corner, set up separately from the main venue, included a number of exhibition areas such as an introduction to and sales of fair trade products in collaboration with NPOs, booths for introducing special-purpose subsidiaries associated with the Group, and an opportunity to experience blind soccer. Furthermore, a new exhibition on LGBT initiatives within the Group was set up to promote understanding among participants.

• NTT Group sports for the physically challenged

• NTT Group social contribution activities

• Blind soccer experience

• Sales of fair trade products

In the survey conducted after the conference, 97% of the respondents indicated that their understanding of CSR had "increased significantly" or "increased to a certain degree," making the conference a highly significant event that raised employee CSR awareness. We will continue to hold the conference over the coming years and work to improve measures aimed at participation by Group employees toward further enhancing CSR awareness.

2: Prize Winners

Superior CSR Initiatives
CSR Grand Prize finalists

Utilization of IoT in agriculture with sensing solutions

NTT East

With the number of people employed in agriculture dropping, the problem of passing on skills in Japanese agriculture has appeared, making it necessary to raise the efficiency of production and make it more sophisticated. NTT East is developing "e Sensing for Agriculture" to make it possible to check the environment of a distant agricultural field in real time using IoT, and also view past data, thereby helping to solve problems.

IoT service for monitoring workers using vital sensors

NTT PC Communications

Currently, a working style reform is being promoted under direction of the government, but there is no end to health disorders due to physical or mental burdens, and accidents due to health issues. Under these circumstances, NTT PC Communications is supporting a system to watch over the safety and health of workers at corporations by providing mimamori-gajumaru, a wearable IoT service.

Provision of a mobile phone app that can both convert incoming voice into text, and outgoing text into voice

NTT DOCOMO

NTT DOCOMO is developing and providing "Mieru Denwa," a smartphone telephone service for those with hearing impairments. The service displays the words of the other person on the smartphone in real time. With this service, we are helping provide reassuring telephone communication, by eliminating the unease of not being able to hear, for the 7.5 million people in Japan who are said to be hard of hearing.

Bicycle-led education and environmental conservation project

Dimension Data

In South Africa's Limpopo province, around 12 million children walk to school every day. Two million spend more than therty minuts walking each way. Team Dimension Data for Qhubeka, established in 2007 as Africa's first pro continental team, has made it its mission is to help solve this issue.

Superior CSR Initiatives
Merit Award

Employment opportunity promotion and other initiatives at call centers

NTT Communications

Resolving Concerns Regarding Support by Remote Workers to Create Employment and Realize Diversity

Reduce food waste through donations of stockpiled supplies

NTT TechnoCross

A Donation Matching Solution for Disaster Preparation Emergency Rations that Support Solving Issues Like Food Waste

Open innovation for social development in Latin America

everis

Establishing Open Innovation Aimed at Developing Latin American Societies

Social Contribution Ideas
Grand Prize

Letters and albums to be sent to children around the world with intractable diseases to fulfill their dreams and give them courage

NTT DOCOMO

Social Contribution Ideas
Merit Award

Nursing care recreation proposals led by NTT Group

NTT Business Associe

Response to Japan's 2025 problem (baby boomers reaching 75 years of age and the resulting burden on the medical and social insurance systems) using human vital sign data and environmental data around mobile telephone base stations

DOCOMO CS