https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Mon, 21 Oct 2013 23:43:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 https://civic.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/03/cropped-CivicMedia_Symbol_K_RGB-32x32.png https://civic.mit.edu 32 32 https://civic.mit.edu/2013/10/21/tane-corder/ Mon, 21 Oct 2013 23:43:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/10/21/tane-corder/ Building upon my last blog post and comments provided, I will summarize my project proposal here: Tane, in Shiga prefecture in Japan, is a unique rural depopulated community where various universities and organizations visit to conduct different projects. These outside projects can seamlessly come into the community largely because of two proactive community leaders; at the same time, there is a big gap of interests, passion and efforts between these two leaders and the rest […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2013/10/01/solve-rural-depopulation-through-civic-media/ Tue, 01 Oct 2013 23:54:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/10/01/solve-rural-depopulation-through-civic-media/ I have my own project in Japan, called SoHub, where multidisciplinary teams work with a rural community that improve the lives in the community through collaborative technology solutions. The community we are currently working with is Tane in Shiga prefecture, which is a rural community facing the depopulation. In SoHub, we are trying to tackle the population challenge through improving the smaller factors (for example agricultural production and housing) of the community – and this […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2013/09/25/digital-inequality-and-inclusion-in-japan/ Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:18:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/09/25/digital-inequality-and-inclusion-in-japan/ Japan is often represented as a high-technology country, so statistics below often surprise people. Global Social Network Penetrationhttp://urbantick.blogspot.com/2011/06/global-social-network-use-stats.html Computer ownership as well as Internet penetration rate is lower than expected for its income level, compared to the other countries in East Asia. As for the penetration rate for social network, it is much lower than those of other industrialized countries. However, these statistics does not surprise me much. Why? – because I have been experiencing […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2013/09/16/hello-civic-world-miho-kitagawa/ Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:30:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/09/16/hello-civic-world-miho-kitagawa/ Hello everyone – I’m Miho, an undergraduate senior majoring in Mechanical Engineering with the concentration in Biomedical Applications and International Development. My interest lies on product development, user-interface design and capacity building. I’m pretty heavily involved in D-lab (http://d-lab.mit.edu/) – where we design appropriate technologies needed in developing countries – and Little Devices Lab (http://littledevices.org/) – where we develop DIY health technologies both for developed and developing countries. I’m from Kyoto, Japan – and about […]]]>