Designing of a Network Infrastructure to Promote Active Participation of Youth in Local Community Revitalization

Abstract

Local communities are collapsing, making communication difficult between the government and citizens. In particular, opportunities for people in adolescence and beyond to participate in local communities, which have remained functioning so far, as a lifelong learning place, have decreased, contributing to the progress of intergenerational and regional disparities. There is a need to develop a scheme that allows people in adolescence to play a proactive part in local revitalization. Based on previous studies on network organizations and idea promotion, this study proposes an organizational system and operational process to encourage people to play a proactive role, with a view to creating a decentralized mobile community in which people in adolescence can easily participate.