If not addressed in time, this can create huge social problems.

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"If you're not careful, we'll create problems, we create backlashes - which is that social workers become risk-averse, " she added.

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Despite the social and economic problems this change is forecast to create for example, for the country's pension system talk of mass immigration as a solution has so far been strictly taboo among Japanese at large.

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They help corporations, public sector agencies, nonprofits and foundations create value through social change and empower them with data to solve social problems more efficiently.

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"I think fundamentally one of the biggest problems is that social tools communicate slightly more in the open, they create ambient knowledge and ambient awareness for others who are not even in the conversation, " says Mr Bryant.

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Fundamental to social work is attention to all of the forces that create, contribute to, and address problems in living.

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