Social Implementation Process of Information Technology Considering User's Acceptability

A Case Study on Chizu Town, Tottori Prefecture

Abstract

Our intent to write this paper is to highlight the potential of information technology (IT) as a powerful tool for assisting with rural declint communities which are featured by the above five items. We make a claim that this requires people to foster the process technology (“implementation technology”) of matching the process of rural vitalization with the internalizing process of “implanting IT technology” into their community. In other words to make IT technology available to the community as a manufactured product is simply not enough and it needs to be accompanied and synchronized by the concurrently developed implementation technology.