GLOBAL CITY IN FAR EAST: STRATEGIC direction OR “potemkin village”?

Electronic Communities: Global Village or Cyberbalkans?

Information technology can link geographically separated people and help them locate interesting or compatible resources. Although these attributes have the potential to bridge gaps and unite communities, they also have the potential to fragment interaction and divide groups by leading people to spend more time on special interests and by screening out less preferred contact. This paper introdu...

Development of Organic Farmers' Cooperatives in East China: A Case Study of Dai Village, Jurong City

The objective of this study is to understand the development of organic farmers' cooperatives in East China by exploring the introduction of an organic agriculture specialized farmers' cooperative in Jurong City, Jiangsu Province. This case study indicates that, with strong leadership and well-organized management, small farmerfl in China are able to become involved in organic farming. Deficien...

Something of a Potemkin Village? Acid2 and Mozilla's Efforts to Comply with HTML4

The real point here is that the Acid3 test isn't a broad-spectrum standards-support test. It's a showpiece, and something of a Potemkin village at that. Which is a shame, because what's really needed right now is exhaustive test suites for specifications— XHTML, CSS, DOM, SVG.[2] Acid3 is the third of three benchmark tests that have been devised to challenge browsers to comply with Internet sta...

The legalization of physician-assisted suicide: creating a regulatory Potemkin village.

Global Games Selection in Games with Strategic Substitutes or Complements

Global games methods are aimed at resolving issues of multiplicity of equilibria and coordination failure that arise in game theoretic models by relaxing common knowledge assumptions about an underlying parameter. These methods have recently received a lot of attention when the underlying complete information game is one of strategic complements (GSC). Little has been done in this direction con...