Interactive figures drawn from the WILL2025 participant surveys, registration records, and post-event review, gathered at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies through the community's flipped research conference methodology.
Participants rated the eight challenge domains inherited from the Future Hub Forum 2023 framework for their own institutional context. Each strip shows the full distribution of ratings, from Critically Important (navy) to Not Important (light gray). Click any label for the exact breakdown, or hover a segment for counts. The weighted score maps ratings onto a 0 to 4 scale.
Weighted score: Critically Important = 4, Very = 3, Moderately = 2, Slightly = 1, Not = 0. Ethical concerns and platform sustainability lead the 2025 ranking, a shift from the cost-dominated picture of 2023.
The same respondents rated five candidate roles for the community in addressing the challenges. Every role drew strong support, but partnership creation and community outreach attracted the most Critically Important ratings, while co-authoring research had the widest Very Important consensus, which is fitting for a group that publishes together.
Ratings used the same importance scale as the challenge questions; no respondent selected Not Important for any role.
After the closing unconference, participants reviewed each element of the symposium. The keynote by Shannon Putman and the informal networking drew the strongest Extremely Useful responses. Hover segments for counts; click a label for details.
Overall organization was rated Excellent by a clear majority, with a small cluster of Poor ratings traced in open comments largely to online audio and hybrid access issues.
Self-described roles at registration. Academics and researchers formed the core, joined by students, developers, founders, and a long tail of designers, engineers, and administrators.
Asked whether they would join a publication or project after the symposium, roughly two thirds said yes outright. This chart is the seed of the book itself: the co-author pool for Cascading Voices was recruited from these responses.
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