With the development of Open Science (OS), the construction of indicators to monitor researchers' OS practices has become essential. Overseas, dashboards containing these indicators are increasingly being provided, which can be used by universities and other research institutions as research evaluation indicators. This study aims to clarify the domestic needs for the indicators provided by such institutional dashboards. First, librarians (LBs) and research administrators (RAs) were interviewed and qualitatively analysed as users within domestic institutions corresponding to users of dashboards for overseas institutions. Second, we applied the dashboard indicator categories for overseas institutions as a framework for the analysis results, and we analyzed the differences between the needs of LBs and RAs, as well as between the indicators of domestic needs and those provided overseas. For LBs, the use of indicators to monitor OS practices was observed, but there was no need for indicators on the specifics of compliance with the FAIR principles provided overseas. In RAs, the use of indicators for research evaluation was observed, but many issues with their use were also highlighted. Needs specific to Japan included the number of papers written by Japanese language and citations.

　In recent years, in this era of unpredictability, an increasing number of companies have been promoting agile software development model （hereinafter referred to as “agile development”）for projects involving uncertain elements and for strategic product and service development. On the other hand, Japanese companies have established a form of outsourcing or partial delegation to IT vendors when constructing information systems, and research on conflicts arising from differences in awareness between the two has been observed. This form has not changed even today when DX is co-created through agile development. In this study, I asked whether there are differences in awareness among user companies and IT vendors that could be a cause of conflicts in agile development. I conducted an interview survey of eight practitioners in companies that promote agile development, and analyzed the results based on the frequency of vocabulary. As a result, it was revealed that the user company side has a high awareness of management and investment, while the IT vendor side has a high awareness of budget, team, product, contract, and customer.

　This study aims to analyze the current state of diversification among university faculty participating in Japan's JSPS KAKENHI Grant, as well as the external and internal factors influencing this diversification. Specifically, using job title data from the KAKEN database, we tracked changes in faculty positions and statuses and conducted a quantitative analysis of the job titles. The results revealed an addition of duties beyond educational research, progress in role-sharing, and increasing complexity in positions and statuses. Furthermore, external factors promoting diversification were identified, including science and technology policies emphasizing the advancement of young and female researchers and university management reforms. Moreover, the strategies of universities aimed at maintaining research activities were suggested to contribute to the complexity of positions and statuses as internal factors. At first glance, the job title information included in KAKEN may seem like nothing more than simple labels, but it demonstrates its potential value as an informational resource for elucidating the diversification of research faculty.

　For a short period before the Internet became widespread in Japan, personal data communication services- so-called "Pasokon-Tsushin" in Japanese - were popular. I joined NIFTY-Serve, a major commercial service, in the early 1990s and experienced communication through computer networks as a relatively active user. The experiences I had in this period formed the foundation for my subsequent use of networks in my academic work. In this article, I look back on the communities that I took part in during this era and try to provide some clues for thinking anew about networks as "society.".