Digitally inclusive, healthy ageing communities (DIHAC): A cross-cultural study in Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore and Thailand

数字包容性健康老龄化社区（DIHAC）是在日本、大韩民国、新加坡和泰国开展的一项跨文化研究，旨在确定增强老年人数字使用能力、电子卫生素养和参与健康促进的途径。从2021年开始，我们组织了虚拟会议，不仅有学者参加，而且有来自世界各地的专业人士、研究人员、专家、研究生参加。每次会议的主题都从关注日本、韩国、新加坡和泰国的数字政策扩展到健康促进、健康公平、脆弱性、数字健康、赋权和干预等方面的数字培训和正在进行的研究。2022年是该五年计划的第二年。网上举办国际跨文化交流会议6次。实施数字赋权项目和人工智能生态系统的地方政府和国际组织分享了他们的经验。我们分析了跨学科的讨论并作为报告发表https://digital-ageing.com/surveys-and-blog/。此外，通过公民研讨会，我们确定了在不同背景下老年人使用数字的因素，并开发了调查工具。在全面收集数据之前，在四个国家进行的试点研究验证了该仪器。到目前为止，韩国已经完成了社区调查，其他三个国家正在进行中。我们于2022年在日本、韩国、新加坡和泰国发布了DIHAC研究方案和一项关于健康老龄化的数字和健康促进政策路径的范围审查。

Digitally Inclusive Healthy Ageing Communities (DIHAC)is a cross-cultural Study in Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Thailand identifying paths to empower older persons' digital use, e-health literacy and participation in health promotion. From 2021, we organized virtual meetings, participated not only by academics, but also by professionals, researchers, specialists, graduate students from all around the world. The topic of each meeting expanded from the focus of digital-based policy of Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Thailand to digital trainings and ongoing research studies of health promotion, health equity, frailty, digital health, empowerment, and interventions, etc. The year 2022 marks the second year of the five-year project. A total of six international cross-cultural exchange meetings were held online. Local governments and international organizations who implemented digital empowerment programs and AI-ecosystems shared their experiences. We analyzed trans-disciplinary discussion and published as reports https://digital-ageing.com/surveys-and-blog/. Furthermore, through the citizen workshops, we identified factors empowering old person's digital use in different contexts and developed survey instruments. Pilot studies in four countries validated the instrument before full scale data collection. So far, community surveys have been completed in Korea and are ongoing in the other three countries. We published DIHAC study protocol and a scoping review of digital and health promotion policy paths to healthy ageing in Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Thailand in 2022.