TRANSITIONS - Key Persons
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- Copy Editing ( Japanese )
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- Our Economies and Cultures Rapidly Accelerated in the 19th and 20th Centuries. What If We Embrace a Slower Way of Living in the 21st?
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- Project Associate Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science
Organisations and governments are experimenting with greater transparency and decentralised decision-making. This helps give people a greater sense of ownership and control.
Yuji Yoshimura is a Project Associate Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo. He focuses on participatory democracy, helping governments and planners give more ownership of decision-making to citizens.
For Yoshimura, the main reason that initiatives like this often fail is that citizens do not see the future of their city as their own. While technology has an important role to play, it isn't a substitute for proper democractic engagement. And the right answer will vary from place to place.