National Taipei University Business School Visits Hosei University Graduate School for Special Joint Lecture on Co-creation with DICT

## National Taipei University Business School Visits Hosei University Graduate School for Special Joint Lecture on Co-creation with DICT

On May 25, 2026, the DICT community (operated by Link & Innovation Co., Ltd.; Representative: Shinya Yamamoto), a social experiment community for international co-creation innovation using Web 3.0 and DAO, dispatched guest speakers to Hosei University Graduate School (Graduate School of Innovation Management). The lecture welcomed 16 students led by Special Professor Wei-Lun Chang of the Department of Business Administration at National Taipei University. The theme was "Societies Decentralized by Technological Innovation and Community."

### Why Decentralization Now? – A Shared Question Between Japanese and Taiwanese Business Schools

Against the backdrop of AI evolution, Web 3.0 implementation, climate change, and diverse values, social issues that centralized decision-making models struggle to address are emerging worldwide. While Taiwan garners international attention as a leader in digital democracy, Japan is also exploring new value creation starting from the intrinsic motivations of regions, communities, and individuals.

This lecture was designed as a space for the next generation of business leaders from Japan and Taiwan to openly discuss a decentralized future—a vision where individuals move based on "questions arising from within" rather than "answers given from above," loosely connecting through technology to support each other and build new social structures.

### Academic Exchange with Special Professor Wei-Lun Chang of National Taipei University

This project was realized through a long-standing academic friendship between Shinya Yamamoto, founder and representative of DICT (who also teaches as an adjunct instructor at Hosei University's Graduate School of Innovation Management), and Special Professor Wei-Lun Chang of the Department of Business Administration at National Taipei University.

Responding to Professor Chang's wish for students to "feel what is happening in Japan's front lines firsthand, which cannot be learned from textbooks," DICT members took the stage as guest lecturers.

### Guest Lecture: Four Projects Embodying "Decentralization"

DICT members, who are establishing new communities as initiators in a decentralized manner, shared their projects' underlying motivations and practices.

#### [1] Project Shion – International Co-creation Education Through Music

Participating in the OECD Japan joint research "Playground without Walls - Za -" (Secretariat: Tokyo Gakugei University), this project featured the song "Dreaming of Tomorrow," co-created by students from Japan, the U.S., and France, alongside professionals such as voice actress Yui Ishikawa, composer Kenta Higashiohji, and singer-songwriter Shuhei Kudo. Based on the theme "Letters to My 2030 Self," children re-examined their relationship with the world. Shuhei Miyasaka, a DICT member and project owner, took the stage to discuss the initiative.

#### [2] DICT Music DAO Classics – Establishing a New Classical Music Culture

This music community brings together score and modern composers with performers. By utilizing a hybrid copyright management system that opens a portion of authorship rights (such as performance rights) to the community, it respects composers' intrinsic motivations while aiming for performers' autonomy and the inheritance of culture for the next 100 years. The community achieved its initial crowdfunding goal early and is currently pursuing its next goal.