Currently, informatics research and business applications of such research are dominated by GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon) and other tech giants. These tech giants are led by elite informatics researchers in their late twenties to early thirties, and in the informatics field, researchers are required to conduct world-class research in their twenties.

However, even though there are many high-school-age students with world-class abilities, elite training in the informatics field in Japan lacks collaboration and connection among high schools, technical colleges, universities, and graduate schools. The Experts in Information Science program exists to take on the challenge of addressing the nation's urgent need to consistently produce many researchers and engineers conducting world-class research in their twenties.
High school and technical college students with world-class mastery of mathematics, algorithms, programming, and software development will be exposed to cutting-edge informatics research. Students will also conduct collaborative research with leading young researchers in Japan in informatics. Through such collaborative research, we strive to provide students with pathways to becoming world-class leaders in the informatics field. This is not just a one or two-year program for imparting basic research skills. This program represents an ambitious effort to develop students' future research style, seeing them through approximately ten years of research activity as emerging global researchers and engineers beginning from when they graduate from high school.

From fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2022, this program was implemented by NII as an implementing agency of the Japan Science and Technology Agency's (JST) Next Generation Human Resource Development Program, Global Science Campus (GSC), jointly with the Information Processing Society of Japan and The Japanese Committee for International Olympiad in Informatics. From fiscal 2023, this program is promoted by NII as an implementing agency of the JST's Science and Technology Challenge Program for Next Generation (STELLA program), again in collaboration with the Information Processing Society of Japan and The Japanese Committee for International Olympiad in Informatics.