Know our neighbors as we know ourselves
Develop hidden entrepreneurship based on assets in ward 3
Download PaperKeywords: Community Development, Needs Assessment, Community Asset
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In this paper, Yohta Shimizu will summarize his findings and recommendation for the city, based on the Community Data class instructed by Dr.Chan in Spring of 2019. He seeks to propose an unexplored perspective and conversation based on the findings and discussions with several salient cases and methodology.
After briefly mapping out community development experiments with a particular focus on Ward 3, he quotes some persistent perceptions of the area from the survey for city workers. To facilitate conversations from new perspectives, he proposes to focus on invisible assets of the community, instead of making assumptions from what we see and feel. This is to shift our focus from problems to solutions, and he will introduce data walk as a methodology to collect these data. Consequently, this paper intends to stimulate conversations such as:
-What kind of indicators should be used to measure the impact of community development?
-What kind of data should be collected?
-What methodology the city can take with limited human/financial resources?
-What is our community assets, and how we could incubate these assets for the future?
The goal of this paper is to leverage community assets collected from the recommendations and use them as a starting point to start constructive discussions for the next step, such as improvement of the quality of our life.
Yohta Shimizu, Published 05.16.2019
