Main theme: Fostering Sustainability
Currently a hot topic around the world, “ Sustainability ”。
As globalization advances, resources and people move across borders, and cultures and trends spread, the topic of “Sustainability” is becoming increasingly important. Available resources are limited, making fair distribution and sustainable development necessary. However, the issue goes beyond environmental and technological aspects. Globalization brings many challenges, including cultural friction associated with migration, urbanization and depopulation, and threats to the passing down of traditional culture. We therefore need to consider what a sustainable society should look like from various perspectives, including culture and the economy. By visiting both countries firsthand, learning about their current situations and challenges, and bringing together young people’s flexible and creative thinking, we will explore what a sustainable society should look like.
IDFC2020 Program
Self-branding & Team building
Through self-analysis and team building, we aim to understand diversity, collaborate with others, and recognize and improve our own abilities. Specifically, by holding workshops to deepen understanding of ourselves and others, and through feedback among team members, we seek to discover and develop our hidden potential.
Social Issue
The goal is to understand local conditions through firsthand visits, develop concrete solutions to the challenges addressed by each discussion group, and share them. There are three groups: Social Entrepreneurship, Tourism, and Tradition and Globalization (details below). Based on these groups, participants make site visits, attend lectures, hold discussions, and share their outcomes with society.
Cross-Cultural Understanding
The aim is to broaden our perspectives by learning about other cultures from various angles, absorbing what we learn, and drawing broader concepts from it. To achieve this, we will interview local people, analyze the insights gained together with our teammates, and share the results.
—Participants themselves, their own Interests and Fields choose in line with
Three working group
The most demanding part of the International Development Field Camp for Myanmar and Japan Youth Leaders, and
And at the same time, the place where I could make the most of my abilities—that was in each working group Discussion is.
Over IDFC’s six years so far, the sight of students from Japan and Myanmar confronting one another’s values during the camp has become an annual tradition.
Each participant joins one discussion group and exchanges views with the students in that group based on information gathered beforehand.
At IDFC, we consider balancing “input” and “output” an important part of thinking about social issues.
Each discussion group receives input on its challenges from various perspectives through site visits to companies, organizations, local governments, and others related to its theme
At the symposium that concludes IDFC, an “output” sharing what we have learned with students and the media
The schedule during the camp is expected to be very demanding.
However, for all the participants, IDFC2020 could be, in their future student lives and career choices,
Life Changing Experience
All of us on the executive committee sincerely hope that it will become so.
—Three discussion groups (subthemes)—
Social Entrepreneurship
With a particular focus on startup concepts and social business, we explore how business can transform society while comparing cultural differences in entrepreneurship between Japan and Myanmar. We select one of the various challenges facing society and discuss how businesses and individuals should address it.
Tourism
We focus on the benefits and drawbacks of growth in tourism in Japan and on the current state of tourism in Myanmar, exploring the problems facing tourist destinations in both countries. In line with this year’s theme, we consider sustainable development through tourism from the perspectives of both tourists and local communities.
Tradition & Globalization
This group will focus on traditions that are seeking renewal by adopting new technologies and trends, as well as traditions that have gained renewed appreciation around the world. How can we discover value in the traditional cultures of Japan and Myanmar and sustain them amid globalization? We will consider “globalization” through the lens of traditional industries.