This is a website for publicizing the Academic Knowledge Co-creation Program Toward Better “Smart WE” (Smart WE Project) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).
Currently, smartification and digital transformation of living spaces are rapidly advancing in Japan and abroad, and are beginning to have a variety of positive and negative effects on society. This study focuses on the “WE problem”, which is defined as the impoverishment of real and virtual “WE” (human relationships, bonds, and communities), and draws a prescription for the smartification and digital transformation to revitalize the “WE.
The “WE problem” here is precisely how to prevent the weakening of human bonds and relationships in real life environments and the spread of smart mobism in virtual spaces (the prevalence of hate talk and vulnerability to fake news), and how to make real WE more fertile and virtual WE more healthy. This project will answer this question by closely linking in-depth research on the view of human and society with empirical research through collaboration among the humanities, sciences, industry, and academia.
