Rethinking the nature of local communities from the perspective of comprehensive "digitization" of public services

　The concept of "open government," which aims to expand and deepen civic collaboration and public-private partnerships through the active use of digital technology, has been deployed and practiced by national and local governments around the world over the past decade, following the establishment of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in 2011.
　In order to build "inclusive and diverse collaborative relationships", which is the goal of "open government", a more inclusive approach (digital transformation) is needed that includes the transformation of social systems and organizational culture, rather than the conventional approach of using digital technology for "partial optimization" within the government.
　In this lecture, we will clarify the issues and challenges necessary for inclusive solutions to the problems faced by local communities through "digital transformation," especially at the local government level. In the 12th and 13th lectures, we will try a workshop using the "speculative design" method to comprehensively unravel the considerations necessary for the social implementation of specific new technologies, with the aim of helping students to collaborate in their local communities.

Understand the issues and points of discussion learned in the lecture and be able to feed back to practical use such as planning.

1. Guidance
2. PPP and Digital Transformation (Introduction)
3. Case Study 1: Open Contracting
4. Case Study 2: Administrative benchmarking among local governments
5. Necessary elements and issues for digitization of public services (overview)
6. "Open data" for collaboration across organizational boundaries
7. "Digital twin" to cross the boundary between real space and information space
8. Reconsidering the issue of "regional mobility" with open data and digital twin
9. "Digital Divide", a Challenge Associated with Digitization
10. "Privacy" as an issue of concern in digitalization
11. the issue of "black box" decision-making by AI, etc.
12. the issue of "reviewing systems and organizations" for comprehensive reform
13. workshop using speculative design 1 (Influence Analysis)
14. workshop using speculative design 2 (hypothesis study)
15. Presentation of final report

Classes consist of lectures and discussions (assuming face-to-face/online lectures in the classroom).

・Pre-learning
Search for questions and issues that can be obtained from each practice and activity on the set theme.
・Post-learning
Consider the impacts and effects of each practice and activity obtained from the discussion.
The required time is about 30 to 60 minutes.

Evaluation items (Evaluation is based on Toyo University Graduate School Grading Standards).
・ Degree of active participation in discussions: 70%
・ End-of-term report (A4: 1 sheet): 30%
S score is 90 points or higher, and is generally within 10% of the students. A score is 80 points or more, B score is 70 points or more, C score is 60 points or more, and less than 60 points is rejected.

PPP students only

Lecture materials will be posted on ToyoNet-ACE in advance.

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Policy Evaluation (Mon7, Spring)

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