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An Activity Report of Online Kominkan in Kurume City
2020 Volume 17 Pages 28-36
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2020 Volume 17 Pages 28-36
In this report, we introduce a case of Online Kominkan conducted at Kurume city, Fukuoka Prefecture. The visionAreal has been working on place making for parents and their children in Kurume city. The COVID-19 pandemic shut down public facilities including the kominkan. A new method to facilitate citizen gathering during the quarantine was searched. As a result, we launched Online Kominkan using online meeting system.
The Online Kominkan is hosted by the operation board and the activity planner. They met weekly on Zoom and utilized Facebook Messenger and Slack to finalize the activity plan.
The programs provided at Online Kominkan are not only limited to regular programs. There are spontaneous activities targeting different generations and weekly special activities, which is also known as the commitment activities. Some activities are hosted with the collaboration of other community centers and Online Kominkan throughout Japan.
These activities not only facilitated online interaction but also contributed to triggering offline communication between citizens. Preparing the network infrastructure of the participants and enhancing the operation team performance should be focused for further implementation.
