3. 381
Unique
event
a;endees
20
Core
contributors
1600+
Facebook
group
members
About
Code
for
Japan
3
Board
members
SupporQng
18
Brigades
1
Fellowship
3
Fellows
Preparing
15
Brigades
4. Growing
Community
Became
a
general
incorporated
associaQon
CfA
Summit
WIRED
Conference
Code
for
Kanazawa
launched
5374.jp
Launched
100
500
1200
Granted
$7,000
by
Yahoo!
FoundaQon
Started
Namie
Fellowship
1500
1808
Facebook
Users
June,
2013
Sep,
2013
Dec,
2014
Mar,
2014
Current
5. Main
acQviQes
• Small
weekly
meeQngs
• Brigade
Captain
Hangouts
(Monthly)
• Support
Brigade
Events
– Send
mentors
to
their
events
– Give
advises
to
them
• Host
Civic
Tech
Workshops
– “How
to
Organize
a
Civic
Hackathon”
– “How
to
Organize
a
Mapping
Party”
6. About
CfN
fellowship
• Just
started
up
• One
year
fellowship
• CfJ
is
running
workshop
support
as
well
12. Number
of
Namie
Residents
Living
in
each
Prefecture
(31 Dec, 2013) 12
13. Namie
town
decided
• To
distribute
tablet
devices
to
the
residents
• Offered
to
CfJ
to
create
useful
applicaQons
on
the
devices
14. What
did
we
do
for
Namie?
• A
CiQzen-‐Centric
Prototyping
– face-‐to-‐face
Interviews.
– Involve
ciQzens
by
holding
Ideathons
and
Hackathons.
• Help
Namie
town’s
tender
process
for
the
applicaQon
development
process.
15. 7
Ideathons
were
held,
420
People
parQcipated,
770
Ideas
were
presented
17. What
would
residents
need?
• InformaQon
about
the
town
and
their
own
houses.
– Know
what
radiaQon
level
is
around
their
own
houses.
– Know
when
they
can
return.
• CommunicaQon
– Residents
want
to
talk
about
their
old
neighborhood
to
maintain
their
regional
accent.
18. Improvement
the
tender
process
• Code
for
Japan
and
fellows
helped
to
write
RFP
for
avoiding
‘vendor
lock’.
– The
apps
should
be
open
source
sonware.
– Requires
agile
process
development.
• Published
tenderer’s
presentaQons
and
published
scoring
in
detail.
– Transparency
makes
clear
decision.
19. What
will
we
do
for
Namie?
• Fellows
will
manage
an
agile
development
process
with
the
selected
partners.
• Main
funcQons:
– Real-‐Qme
radiaQon
maps
– Keep
up
with
local
news
– Community
noQces
– Sharing
photos
of
Namie
– DistribuQng
administraQve
informaQon
20. Further
Fellowship
Issues
• Residents
have
a
basic
level
of
IT
literacy.
– Fellows
will
organize
workshops
for
the
ciQzen.
• Running
agile
process
efficiently
with
local
government
and
partners.
– There
is
not
much
instances
of
‘Government
x
Agile’
in
Japan.
21. Main
difficulQes
for
extending
the
fellowship
Ordinary
local
governments
don’t
have
enough
budget
for
the
fellowship
Japanese
labor
market
is
not
mobilized
to
hire
high
skill
fellows
22. New
idea:
corporate
fellowship
• We
are
about
to
start
three
months
fellowship
with
companies
– CfJ
defines
‘Scope
of
Work’
with
local
governments
– Companies
send
their
employees
as
a
fellow
– CfJ
arranges
teams
formed
by
the
fellows
– The
team
works
under
the
CfJ’s
governance
– Companies
pay
management
coordinate
fee
to
CfJ
23. Conclusion
• The
situaQon
of
Namie
town’s
residents
are
difficult.
• To
fix
such
kind
of
complicated
issues,
ciQzen
centric
prototyping
process
were
useful
to
collect
actual
needs
and
ideas.
• Making
prototypes
before
the
tender
process
worked
for
finding
the
concept
was
actually
works
or
not.