Abstract
This paper points out that part of a community's inactivity is attributable to insufficient stock of knowledge technology, and attempts to analyze the process of its accumulation and dissemination by highlighting a local community vitalization group called the Chizu Creative Project Team (CCPT), based in the Town of Chizu, Tottori Prefecture. It is shown that as the group built up a great deal of stock of intelligent technology over the last ten years, the town has become increasingly vitalized, together with another community called Yakodani, a depopulated village located deep in the mountain range of Japan's Chugoku Region.
