Please tell us in a few sentences about prior projects done by each of the team members that they are most proud of.

Haruyuki Seki: This open-source citizen participation platform has been adopted by over 20 municipalities, including Kakogawa City, thanks to Seki's effective relationship-building and credibility. Under this initiative, Kakogawa City conducted 25 participatory policy development processes, attracting approximately 4,500 users and garnering 214 opinions. This success has placed Japan first in the OECD's eParticipation Index.

yuiseki: She is an open-source software engineer who initiated the "COVID-19 Research-chan" project at Code for Japan. Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, she created an architecture for collating data from local government websites, enabling almost 100 citizens to collaboratively contribute towards a single objective. As of June 23, 2023, she operates five web services that utilize the OpenAI API, indicating her interest in Language Learning Models (LLMs).

Tajima:

Tajima presented his research on March 28, 2023 at a Japanese academic conference in terms of research activity support by Bing Chat based on GPT-4. He was nominated for a IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award.

Shiramatsu: Prof. Shiramatsu’s laboratory has developed discussion facilitation support systems using GPT-3 and GPT-4. His lab has also developed civic tech support systems, e.g., MissionForest and GoalShare, through collaboration with Code for Nagoya. He has organized the Special Interest Group on Crowd Co-creative Intelligence of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI SIG-CCI).

Nishio: He is a board member of the Mitou Foundation and an ardent supporter of young creatives. He offers young creators the opportunity to experience GPT-4 through a privately-funded service. Nishio is an avid user of Scrapbox, a popular wiki system in Japan, with 15,000+ published pages equivalent to 60 books. He has also developed a script to vector search Scrapbox data and feed them into GPT-3.5 on March 6.