みんなのまちの掲示板 “ためまっぷ” -マイクロイベント情報の共有を目的としたスマートフォンアプリケーションの開発と運用-

While some experts have been talking about the decline of local communities, at present there are many charitable local activities for someone, for communities, and for society. However, some of inhabitants mainly elderly people living alone and child-rearing mothers cannot obtain information on their living area because they have few opportunity to interact with the local residents. In order to reduce person who are isolated from local community due to the lack of information and realize the new kind of relationship suitable for the current social system, the local community needs a mechanism where both the isolated person and the person contributing to community can easily recognize each other's existence and connect them. Therefore, we develop a smartphone application named “Tamemap” aiming at a society where all local people are informally connecting in the region. Tamemap provides a function by which users living the region can transmit and catch small activities called micro events in their area. From the result of the real operation so far, Tamemap had been able to support users mainly people of child-rearing generation and seniors who need local information. Also, through the information sharing of micro events, Tamemap had been able to support the activities of users connecting two or more independent local communities.