# Developing Inclusive Community Platforms: A Catalyst for DEI Community

## TL;DR

This paper discusses how Japan is using digital technology to create more inclusive communities, which could offer lessons for other countries.

## Contribution

The paper introduces a novel use of a Digital Twin as a social technology to enhance community inclusiveness.

## Key findings

- Japan's aging society presents unique challenges for community inclusiveness.
- A Digital Twin of a community is used to understand and address inclusiveness through a population approach.
- The initiative offers insights for researchers and policymakers on adapting similar approaches elsewhere.

## Abstract

Developing inclusive communities is important to enhance individuals’ well-being yet this brings the challenge of actively engaging and leveraging the diversity of residents in communities. Such significant social challenges are prominent in Japan, a focus of this article, as the most advanced aging society in the world and thus relevant to European and other countries. This paper explains a major government initiative that takes an innovative approach through leveraging a social technology, a Digital Twin of a community, to understand and address inclusiveness of a community leveraging population approach. The purpose of this letter is to provide researchers and policy makers insights into the approach taken to stimulate reflection on the potential for adaptation and replication.