Despite increasing interest in and acknowledgement of the significance of video games, current descriptive practices are not sufficiently robust to support searching, browsing, and other access behaviors from diverse user groups. In order to address this issue, the Game Metadata Research Group at the University of Washington Information School, in collaboration with the Seattle Interactive Medi...

Over three decades after market-oriented structural reforms termed “Washington Consensus” policies were first implemented, we revisit the evidence on policy adoption and effects of these socio-economic performance in sub-Saharan African countries. We focus key ubiquitous reform around privatization, fiscal discipline, trade openness document significant improvements economic for reformers over ...

This paper presents a mobile phone application developed for sightseeing in Nikko, one of the cultural world heritages in Japan, using the BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) beacon. Based on our pre-research, we decided to design our application for young people who walk around the area actively, but know little about the tradition and culture of Nikko. One solution is to construct many information boa...