April 2021 to March 2022

Hajime Yamada (General Manager, Accessibility Study Group; Professor Emeritus, Toyo University）
Takashi Kawazoe (President, Carepro, Inc.)
Naoki Sakakibara (Associate Professor, Faculty of Human Studies, Seisen Jogakuin College)
Ryoko Shimono (Project Lecturer, Presidential Endowed Chair for “Platinum Society”, the University of Tokyo)
Chika Sekine (Chairperson and Senior Fellow, UDIT Inc.)
Kazuyoshi Senda (Professor, College of Pharmacy, Kinjo Gakuin University)
Isamu Hirao (President, Regional manegement Platinum lnstitute)
Keiko Fujikata (NPO Shonan Fujisawa Senior Network)
Kazuko Yuma (Chief Fellow, Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies)

   Japan faces many social issues such as an older population that is growing at an unprecedented rate, and frequent disasters caused by climate change. It is therefore important to implement smart city initiatives using cutting-edge technologies such as AI and IoT to make urban functions more sophisticated and efficient while helping to provide solutions to these issues and delivering further value creation. In recent years, we have been constructing city-wide data platforms, including starting work on the Super City concept that involves bold regulatory reforms and the use of digital technology to create a holistic city of the future that is easy to live in, and we have been making rapid progress in the Community Planning DX initiative that aims to solve social issues by making drastic changes to the shape of society. 

   In this study, from the viewpoint of how to promote the indexing of “wellbeing”, which has a vague definition, we clarified the progress being made in the digitalization of entire cities and the movement towards connecting this to the transformation of society as a whole, based on recent cases in Japan and overseas. We also provided recommendations on how digital technology can contribute to maintaining physical, mental and social wellbeing, and how it can bring about change in community development. 

   In relation to this study, a symposium with the title of “Community Development Leading to Well-Being DX” was held on March 22, 2022.