Building a Healthy Community

SP: As a stable platform upon which to “install” the designed system components into normal daily life, I assume community support is a must?

MM: "Inclusion" is a core idea. Henceforth, we can foresee an increase in disasters worldwide that will require improved readiness at the community level. Since communication and coordination capabilities are crucial during urgent times, we are applying past knowhow in order to upgrade localized functions structurally. Evacuation drills, interface sessions (in various forms) and suchlike would help reinforce said functions.

SP: And for this a healthy community spirit needs to be nurtured....?

MM: By happenstance, the FDC has previously collaborated with IT-related companies, thereby giving it an insight into interaction among people. Because being well-organized entities will hold the key to the resiliency of potentially-impacted groups, we hope to continue realizing new design as well as engineering schemes that will improve the status quo in preparation of future risks, not to mention imbuing the community with the spirit required in overcoming hardships.

SP: Concerning the Stealth endeavor, it is part of Tohoku University International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS)-NTT 'Vision-Sharing Joint Research' effort currently in place.