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 […]
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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, […]
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, […]
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 – […]