Arriving at the train station.
Discuss about DAVISWiki even though walking.
Discuss about DAVISWiki
Thanks to Professor Wu
Graduate students in the University of Tokyo (UT) and from the LocalWiki Japan team visited Davis and San Francisco from March 16 - 18th, 2016 with a trip to Davis on March 17th-18th.
This activity is supported by "GCL" workshop program in UT.
What is GCL?
An interdisciplinary doctoral program to train top leaders/groups leading a global society(since 2013).One of the program’s contents is Workshop.
We aim to learn skills to clarify the critical social issues, to recommend appropriate solutions and make proposal of vision for the future.
About this Workshop
We did field researches in Muroran and Tomisato, then we wrote and published articles on LocalWiki.
By these activities, we learned how the residents overcame the various problems faced by their regions, by using ICT.
We received positive comments from the regional people.
For example, “By accepting the questions from the students, we learned a lot. At the same time, we also found that we love Muroran more than before! ”
Workshop Title
Regional Revitalization & Local ICT
-Edit and Activate Our Favorite City!-
Purpose：Put ICT for solving the regional problems and regional revitalization into practice
Method：Practical use of Internet media and Map’s data (LocalWiki), take part in regional activities.
(➣Localwiki in Japan: This service was introduced to Izu- Oshima(Japan) in 2012.)
Overview：2015.9.4 Discussion to share activity plan
2015.9.26 Fieldwork※ at Hakodate (City near form Muroran)
2015.9.27 Fieldwork ※ at Muroran
2015.11.14 Discussion
2015.11.15 Fieldwork ※ at Tomisato
(※Fieldwork: Interview and participant observation )
Study&Result
＜Activity’s origin＞
・Localwiki’s feature：Publicity and being open to update(Democratic)
-People can bring power to the region democratically and make contribution to regional economic vitality.
➢ Not only the place for sharing information, but also a place to bring people together
・Relationship between people involved：
-Promoted by existing regional community or people related to this community
-It seems difficult that if there is no key person in the region
・The significance of non-residents :
- There are non-resident participants of Localwiki, their point of view is also very important!
➢The necessity to research the development success factors.
➢The possibility to change the point of view of regions and to increase the residents’ participation to activities by involving the non-residents
＜Regional differences＞
・Regional differences of industry, geography, resources, culture, could lead to different ways to use LocalWiki
➢Appropriate solutions to different environment are needed, thus the views of both the non-residents and the residents are essential.
◆Result presentation of above in UT on Feb27th
Presentation at UT①
Presentation at UT②
Future plan
- March 16th-18th 2016, field research in the birthplace of LocalWiki (Davis,California,U.S.)
- Interview Mr. Michael Ivanov, the founder of DavisWiki & LocalWiki
- Discuss with Prof.Wu about this WS, the professor in the University of California, Davis
- Compare the LocalWiki in Japan and in the U.S., then think about the development potential of LocalWiki in Japan.
Introduction of our work in Muroran City
Location of Muroran City(Muroran Wiki URL：https://ja.localwiki.org/mr/map)
・City located in southern Hokkaido
The gross area:80.66㎢=31.143㏕(2014)
Population:90,068(2014)
The number of households:47,300(2014)
Major industry:Steel industry
(Muroran City, http://www.city.muroran.lg.jp/main/org1200/toukeisho.html)
Areas of Muroran Localwiki’s articles (Muroran Wiki, URL:https://ja.localwiki.org/mr/map)
•Muroran Localwiki started in 2014
•One of the most active areas in Japan
•Muroran Localwiki has many individual editors
•Attractive places in Muroran：
Wanishi area - lives with steelworks
Hamachou Shopping Street (Muroran Wiki)
•Hamachou Shopping Street -About 30-40years ago,there are disco and pedestrian precinct.
•Torikin -Yakitori (Yakitori means grilled chicken in Japanese, but Muroran style Yakitori is grilled pork) shop loved by locals
Old Muroran Station (Muroran Wiki)
•Volta Factory -factory of Volta (mascot character of Muroran) figures - (https://ja.localwiki.org/mr/%E3%83%9C%E3%83%AB%E3%82%BF)
➣Related article about this Workshop in Tomisato LocalWiki URL
Should also research how DavisWiki is different now from the period when it had an active community of editors and determine what impact board decisions, software changes, lawsuits, and other items had on the health of that communit y to prevent repeating the same mistakes. Figure out who else to interview to get a complete picture of the wiki. --Anonymous, leading question comment
Suggest that you interview JabberWokky. He has been here through all of the many changes.
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