What is the ASCOM ?

The ASCOM is a network of young facultiesand PhD students of Taiwan, South Korea,Japan and other Asian countries which studies“Community development” (as known as “ 社区総体営造”in Taiwan, “Maeul-mandeulgi” inKorea and “Machizukuri” in Japan.) to exchangeknowledge, history, and experiences of each country.
We are now starting this project, from 2006to 2008, and looking for participants of this studygroup from East-Asia countries such as Taiwan,Korea, and China.

What are we going to do?

(1) Interviewing elder pathfinders of community development to get toknow how the community development were born and developedin each country. To store up the interview data to the community development -history archive. Through the interviews, mutual understanding between younger generation and the elder generation of
each country will deepen.

(2) To store up the community development　factors (chronological table,leading projects, pathfinders, characteristic methods and so on) of each country to the archive besides the interviews.

(3) Integrating each country’s archive into an international archive to share with holding international collaboration ( 2 times/year international work shop and other collaboration using Internet tools)

Networking between young faculties of East-Asia countries our ultimate purpose!!

How do We study?

We are planning six steps of the study. Publication of interviews,digital archive and human network are the final results.
Step1 Make basic materials of each country
Step2 Exchange and compare materials
Step3 Chose the pathfinders and projects
Step4 Make an interview film of the pathfinders (pioneers)
Step5 Build an archive of interviews
Step6 Discuss the joint history of community development