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E-Mobility & Sustainable Societies in Japan: Insight into Communication Mobility

Explore e-mobility in Japan, from the rise of email and mobile phones to the challenges and potentials in collective decision-making. Discover how e-mobility can enhance communication efficiency and foster e-democracy.

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E-Mobility & Sustainable Societies in Japan: Insight into Communication Mobility

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  1. E-mobility and Sustainable Information Societies: Japan Perspectives ( Outline )e-Mobility 2001: EU Information Society Conference Göteborg, May 31 – June 1, 2001 Hajime ONIKI Osaka-Gakuin University, Japan oniki@alum.mit.edu www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/oniki/

  2. I. e-mobility A. e-mobility and communication mobility of people and mobility of information ( communication ) e-mobility increases “ efficiency of communication ” depending on the type of communication being sought H. Oniki

  3. B. Attributes of communication being sought number of participants ( one-one, one-many,… ) distance between participants ( face- face, telecom,… ) speed ( instant, best effort, delayed,… ) degree of interactiveness ( one way, one way with acknowledgement, interactive,… ) type of contents ( voice, letters, images,… ) volume of contents (small, medium, large,… ) H. Oniki

  4. C. The power of e-mobility: makes possible information exchanges among those separated by 1. physical distance 2. time difference 3. participation entropy H. Oniki

  5. II. e-mobility in Japan A. E-mail in Japan 1. history: direct meeting and consultation / conversation telephone  fax  e-mail H. Oniki

  6. 2. business use replacing telephone and fax rapidly will soon become the most important means mostly short messages for not-so-important matters not used for important decision making H. Oniki

  7. 3. home use, private use increasing but still limited H. Oniki

  8. 4. e-mail by youngsters ( →B.2 ) H. Oniki

  9. B. Mobile phones ( cellphones ) in Japan 1. history penetration increased exponentially since 1994 ( liberalization of terminal sales) digitized 100% by 1999 low price and rich services 1 out of every 2 Japanese owns cellphone now in Japan H. Oniki

  10. 2. use by youngsters indispensable means of communication with friends (  importance of friend relations ) (  group activities rather than individual independence ) price lowered as penetration increased short messages, short mails H. Oniki

  11. 3. the “ i-mode ” fever ( since 1999 ) easy mail handling simplified web access H. Oniki

  12. C. Other e-mobility activities in Japan 1. WWW widely used for business, pleasure, etc. rapid increase in use by female and youngsters still not popular among middle-aged and elder males steadily increasing H. Oniki

  13. 2. e-commerce, e-service, e-government, e-politics, etc. use being increased 2nd / 3rd place in Asia H. Oniki

  14. D. e-mobility and shortcomings in collective decision making in Japan 1. collective decision making in Japan relies primarily on traditional means of communication heavy use of face-to-face communication, direct consultation, meetings, etc. lack of transparency, insufficient disclosure of information H. Oniki

  15. 2. consequences those decisions beneficial to the nation as a whole often blocked by groups holding information ( and power ) on the matter in question economic stagnation, social deadlocks H. Oniki

  16. 3. e-mobility and e-politics in Japan may break impediments to the disclosure of information may work to organize the interest of the majority H. Oniki

  17. III. Proposal for worldwide e-mobility and e-democracy e-mobility to organize the interest of the majority of the human beings on the globe example: to support the COP3 agreements for limiting the emission of greenhouse gasses ( Kyoto, Japan, 1997 ) H. Oniki

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