Charrette design workshop is an intensive design activity with the participation of experts and residents on a study area in several days. The implementation requires experience and manpower. This study systematically arranged the processes from information collection to design and participatory workshop with the support of geospatial information and 3D plasticine model. It has been applied in Ota village of Minamisoma City and Matsuiwa-omose Area of Kessennuma City. This title demonstrates the process, methodology, and the practical effects.

Recently, GIS technology tends to be used for education about a region. Our research group promotes to study a region by "GPS-Oni-gokko," which location information is exploited. GPS-Oni-gokko likes a game combined playing tag and treasure hunting and be played in larger area than a frequent playing tag because it can use GPS. It is a game we can learn a lot of things, for example, how to analyze and to understand the area by advance fieldwork by groups and how to tell your outcome by presentation.

Public participation was common in community development and environmental conservation. Recently the attention is shifting to store the data, learn from the data, and act with the data as citizen science. Free GIS plays important role as a crowd platform for data management and data mining. This research developed a WebGIS platform with open source GIS. It has been used in public park management in cities and in the forestry and tree-planting activities of NPOs.

There are a huge of data observation and knowledge accumulation in research on climate change. However, most of the data and knowledge are closed in database or drawers without deliverability to the most needed. This research developed a short message service (SMS) for the herders in Mongolia based on 800 rangeland observation stations. The forthcoming one-week weather and forage information was automatically retrieved from the Global Livestock Early Warning System (GLEWS) and transmit to herders in 160 characters. Three-year social experiment demonstrated that this service with small device supported by big database is very helpful for herders to plan herding activities and prepare fodder for harsh winter.

Mongolia is a country with vast land and sparse population but rich natural and cultural resources. The huge potential of eco and adventure tourism could be a new engine of economic development if the infrastructure, information and tourism facility are improved. This project cooperated with National Development Institute of Mongolia organized participatory design workshop with local government and residents in Binder Soum of Khentii Province, the birthplace of Qinggis Khan. For implementing the plan we are going to investigate the tourism resources, improve the infrastructure, and design guidance and information services. Welcome to join this project and explore the beauty of Mongolia.