Coauthored by Research Analyst Kazuko Yuma and published by NTT Publishing.
Social policies around the world have begun to move toward building an information society in which everyone, including people, such as the elderly and disabled, who may be characterized as informationally disadvantaged, participate. To that end, the policies demand improvements of info-communication devices and services and create opportunities to educate users. An electronically-operated government is often called “eGovernment”. Government means an administrative organ of a country. The letter “e” attached in front of the word means the government operates electronically. Similarly, a policy of building an information society in which everyone participates is called an “eInclusion policy”. European countries are actively adopting the eInclusion policy. The word “inclusion” means “participation” or s“ubsumption”. In this book, the term “full-participation society” is used throughout to describe an all-inclusive society and to discuss barriers and obstacles to the development of a full-participation society, and how we are going to overcome them. The objectives of the book are to illustrate the latest trends in these social policies so as to help increase understanding by society.

IT ga Tsukuru Zen’in Sanka Shakai (Working Toward a Full-Participation Society with Information Technology

Supervised by the Institute of International Socio-Economic Studies
Written and edited by Hajime Yamada
Written by Takashi Kobayashi, Naoki Sakakibara, Chika Sekine, Kazuko Yuma

Chapter 1  What is a Full-Participation Society?

Part 1:  Idea and Concept of Full-Participation Society
Chapter 2  Development of Information Society and Full-Participation Society
Chapter 3  Full-Participation Society and the Elderly
Chapter 4  Full-Participation Society and People with Disability
Chapter 5  Future Vision of a Full-Participation Society

Part 2:  Western Policies for Full-Participation-Based Information Society
Chapter 6  Movement Toward Diversity-Oriented Information Society in Europe
Chapter 7  Public Policies Relating to Full-Participation Society in USA

Part 3:  Multi-faceted Approach to Full-Participation Society
Chapter 8  Electronic Government, Local Government
Chapter 9  Elections and Participation
Chapter 10  Employment
Chapter 11  Education and Skill Development

Part 4:  Propositions
Chapter 12  Propositions to Japan
Chapter 13  ropositions to Local Governments
Chapter 14  Summary