NISHIO Hirokazu
Welcome to NISHIO Hirokazu's homepage! Here is homepage for Japanese.
Practitioner of Broad Listening & Digital Democracy in Japan
Research Director at Cybozu Labs. Ph.D. in Science (2006), researching software that enhances teamwork and intellectual productivity since 2007.
Together with Takahiro Anno, he has worked on broad listening in the 2024 Tokyo gubernatorial election, the Tokyo metropolitan "Shin-Tokyo 2050" project, and the 2025 House of Councillors election, and has been involved in developing the "Public Opinion Map (Yoron Chizu)" for JAPAN CHOICE and "Kouchou-AI" for Digital Democracy 2030. He is also a contributor/editor of "Plurality" (Audrey Tang, Glen Weyl et al.) and led its Japanese localization.
Contact: nishio "dot" hirokazu "at" gmail "dot" com
What I do now
- Broad Listening and AI-assisted deliberation for large-scale civic participation
- Collective intelligence tools for policy and community decision-making
- Research on teamwork and intellectual productivity at Cybozu Labs
Japan practice highlights
- 2026: Co-authoring a book on Broad Listening (to be published September 2026)
- 2025-present: Digital Democracy 2030 project (Kouchou-AI / Idobata)
- 2025: Broad Listening (Kouchou-AI) in the 2025 House of Councillors election
- 2025: Japanese localization lead for "PLURALITY"
- 2024-2025: Broad Listening for Tokyo's long-term strategy "Shin Tokyo 2050"
- 2024: Broad Listening in the Tokyo gubernatorial campaign (Takahiro Anno)
- 2024: JAPAN CHOICE "Yoron Chizu" (public opinion map)
Stories
Recommended reading (English)
- Plurality (book) - source & contributions
- Engineer's Way of Creating Knowledge (English)
- Self introduction in East Asian context
- GitHub (code & tools)
Recommended reading (Japanese)
See the Japanese page for a curated list.