Liquitous Partners with REPORT SASEBO to Support Area Vision Formulation for Sasebo City's Yorozu 6th Ward Using 'Liqlid'
Liquitous is supporting the area vision formulation in Sasebo City by utilizing its citizen participation platform 'Liqlid' to gather and analyze resident opinions in collaboration with REPORT SASEBO.
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Liquitous Inc. (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Kanagawa; CEO: Takuyuki Kurimoto) is collaborating with the general incorporated association REPORT SASEBO (Location: Yorozu-cho, Sasebo City, Nagasaki) to support the formulation of an area vision in Sasebo City's Yorozu 6th Ward, utilizing the online citizen participation consensus-building platform 'Liqlid'.
In this initiative, Liquitous handles the analysis of information gathered from interviews conducted by REPORT SASEBO with local stakeholders, builds a system for residents to submit opinions from the streets, and provides advisory for the overall area management. Notably, their partner, REPORT SASEBO, was selected for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' FY2025 'Hometown Building Award' (Minister's Award - Climate, Culture, and Livelihood Category).
## 1. Overview of the Initiative
Yorozu-cho, a warehouse district in Sasebo City, is an area where city officials and diverse citizens have practiced 'town editing' across public-private boundaries through 'side-job' style collaborations. Centered around REPORT SASEBO, and promoting the area nickname 'Yorozu 6th Ward', they have developed unique cafes, the micro-hotel 'RE SORT', the morning market revitalization project 'NEO Asaichi', and 'OUT BLOCK(S) SASEBO', a market that pedestrianizes the national highway.
Liquitous is collaborating with REPORT SASEBO in efforts to consolidate opinions for the construction of a 'Food Creation Hub' in the Yorozu 6th Ward under Nagasaki Prefecture's 'Nagasaki Food Bustle Creation Project'. For the area vision formulation, REPORT SASEBO conducts interviews with local stakeholders, while Liquitous supports the process by analyzing that information. Specifically, they handled the following:
- **Creating a resident opinion submission mechanism (using Liqlid):** Built a 'Voice Collection' on Liqlid and established a system where residents can submit opinions via QR codes on 'speech bubble' acrylic plates installed around town.
- **Analyzing stakeholder interview data:** Liquitous analyzed and visualized the results of interviews conducted by REPORT SASEBO with neighborhood association members and local stakeholders on Liqlid, supporting the area vision formulation.
- **Overall advisory:** Providing advice and proposals for the entire area management.
On Liqlid, the voices of local residents are digitally accumulated, realizing a consensus-building process that combines online and offline methods.
## 2. Future Outlook
Moving forward, we will work towards the full-scale implementation of 'Yorozu Koenowa', an opinion-gathering and policy-formation system combining digital and analog methods based on Liquitous's Liqlid.
We will continue to collaborate with REPORT SASEBO to support the deepening of 'town editing' toward the rebranding of the Yorozu 6th Ward as a special autonomous zone where the old and new coexist, and the expansion of sustainable town-building domains in cooperation with government and businesses (such as updating neighborhood association operations).
## 3. Comment
**Comment from Daiki Nakao, Representative of REPORT SASEBO:**
The 15-year endeavor, which began from a personal desire to create my own place in the town I happened to continue living in, has evolved through encounters and collaborations with various people, including Liquitous, advancing the public concept of 'building our own town ourselves'.
In this initiative, Liquitous handles the analysis of information gathered from interviews conducted by REPORT SASEBO with local stakeholders, builds a system for residents to submit opinions from the streets, and provides advisory for the overall area management. Notably, their partner, REPORT SASEBO, was selected for the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' FY2025 'Hometown Building Award' (Minister's Award - Climate, Culture, and Livelihood Category).
## 1. Overview of the Initiative
Yorozu-cho, a warehouse district in Sasebo City, is an area where city officials and diverse citizens have practiced 'town editing' across public-private boundaries through 'side-job' style collaborations. Centered around REPORT SASEBO, and promoting the area nickname 'Yorozu 6th Ward', they have developed unique cafes, the micro-hotel 'RE SORT', the morning market revitalization project 'NEO Asaichi', and 'OUT BLOCK(S) SASEBO', a market that pedestrianizes the national highway.
Liquitous is collaborating with REPORT SASEBO in efforts to consolidate opinions for the construction of a 'Food Creation Hub' in the Yorozu 6th Ward under Nagasaki Prefecture's 'Nagasaki Food Bustle Creation Project'. For the area vision formulation, REPORT SASEBO conducts interviews with local stakeholders, while Liquitous supports the process by analyzing that information. Specifically, they handled the following:
- **Creating a resident opinion submission mechanism (using Liqlid):** Built a 'Voice Collection' on Liqlid and established a system where residents can submit opinions via QR codes on 'speech bubble' acrylic plates installed around town.
- **Analyzing stakeholder interview data:** Liquitous analyzed and visualized the results of interviews conducted by REPORT SASEBO with neighborhood association members and local stakeholders on Liqlid, supporting the area vision formulation.
- **Overall advisory:** Providing advice and proposals for the entire area management.
On Liqlid, the voices of local residents are digitally accumulated, realizing a consensus-building process that combines online and offline methods.
## 2. Future Outlook
Moving forward, we will work towards the full-scale implementation of 'Yorozu Koenowa', an opinion-gathering and policy-formation system combining digital and analog methods based on Liquitous's Liqlid.
We will continue to collaborate with REPORT SASEBO to support the deepening of 'town editing' toward the rebranding of the Yorozu 6th Ward as a special autonomous zone where the old and new coexist, and the expansion of sustainable town-building domains in cooperation with government and businesses (such as updating neighborhood association operations).
## 3. Comment
**Comment from Daiki Nakao, Representative of REPORT SASEBO:**
The 15-year endeavor, which began from a personal desire to create my own place in the town I happened to continue living in, has evolved through encounters and collaborations with various people, including Liquitous, advancing the public concept of 'building our own town ourselves'.