2025.01.09
Associate Professor Shugo Shinohara's lab at the Faculty of Policy Management has won the "Policy Idea Award" at the Wakayama Prefecture Data Utilization Competition.
Since 2017, Wakayama Prefecture has held the Wakayama Data Utilization Competition to promote the importance and usefulness of data utilization and to foster the next generation of data science talent in Japan. This year, the 8th competition called for proposals on the theme of "The Ideal City around 2040."
The Shinohara Lab submitted a policy proposal titled "A Sustainable City that Continues to Support Its Citizens: Centralized and Decentralized Management of Public Facilities" and won the "Policy Idea Award" in the university student division, which received entries from 41 teams.
Winning Proposal
A Sustainable City that Continues to Support Its Citizens: Centralized and Decentralized Management of Public Facilities
Shinohara Research Group, Keio University
Comments from the Winners
I believe that our success is the result of about eight months of earnest discussions among our research group members on the theme of "The Ideal City in 2040."
As an SFC student, I will continue to strive to realize innovative policies that can make people happy.
This award, and our research on local administration in general, would not have been possible without the cooperation of local governments and residents.
I would like to once again express my gratitude to the Citizen's Life Division of the Mito City Hall in Ibaraki Prefecture and to all the residents who cooperated with us.
(Yune Tanimoto, 4th-year student, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies)
Source: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office