e-villages of tomorrow

e-villages of tomorrow

Author: Ghazi A Khan

Publisher: Booktango

Published: 2012-07-25

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1468907425

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This book is based on the research work by the author regarding e-villages at a global scale that are eco friendly with built-in incentives to attract neighboring villages to copy this model. The target population is all humanity especially residents of regions that are prone to disasters by human intervention. The second objective is to reverse the migration trend of general population from countryside to metropolitan cities in search of better services. This goal can be achieved by rejuvenating village population, which is the core source of our food supply chain. At the same time to ease the pressure from overcrowded cities that cannot handle more population beyond their capacity; The third objective is to empower rural population with simple tools of “non- evasive Eco friendly technologies” to access almost the same level of services at home as they would get, should they migrate to a metropolitan.; Forth objective is to tie up their economic interests of diverse population by making them interdependent on each other’s skills and services for their survival, prosperity & sustainability; Unlike a communistic or socialistic models, where one is not allowed to have personal holdings, thereby restricting their chances to achieve their personal goals by exercising neither their potential, nor it is pure capitalistic in nature to give unlimited unchecked power over other fellow beings. It is a hybrid lifestyle to get the best out of all models, make use of their potential to gain savings in their living expenses up to 75%. Additionally to have long-term social security in the form of joint investment with immediate return higher than they could otherwise get from open market and a great return for their retirement. Another purpose of this book is to educate those minds thinking to embrace eco sustainability To establish a blueprint for those who may follow.


The Routledge Companion to Sinhala Fiction from Post-War Sri Lanka

The Routledge Companion to Sinhala Fiction from Post-War Sri Lanka

Author: Madhubhashini Disanayaka Ratnayake

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-09-27

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1000685446

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This companion presents a critical collection of Sinhala resistance literature from Sri Lanka. It includes translated short stories and excerpts from Sinhala novels, written after the civil war in the country. Featuring national award-winning writers, the selected texts share a common theme of resistance as the writers write against an exclusivist nationalism that was propagated through mass media and platforms of party politics in Sri Lanka during the war. The volume addresses crucial issues such as the fate of civilians in war, the role of religion in Sri Lankan polity, media censorship, the experience of women in war, as well as the current education system and youth problems in present day Sri Lanka. It highlights an alternate discourse that runs among the ethnic Sinhala group and contributes to the overall movement towards peace and reconciliation among the different ethnic communities in Sri Lanka. A unique addition to the growing oeuvre of translated Sinhala literature, the companion will be indispensable to students, scholars, and researchers of ethnic studies, war and peace studies, peace and conflict studies, literature, cultural studies, political sociology, and South Asian studies, particularly those interested in Sri Lankan literature.


Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South

Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South

Author: Dominique Krüger

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-12-31

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 3110798093

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The nucleus of society is situated at the local level: in the village, the neighborhood, the city district. This is where a community first develops collective rules that are intended to ensure its continued existence. The contributors look at such configurations in geographical areas and time periods that lie outside of the modern Western world with its particular development of society and statehood: in Antiquity and in the Global South of the present. Here states tend to be weak, with obvious challenges and opportunities for local communities. How does governance in this context work? Scholars from various disciplines (Classics, Theology, Political Science, Sociology, Social Anthropology, Human Geography, Sinology) analyze different kinds of local arrangements in case studies, and they do so with a comparative approach. The sixteen papers examine the scope and spatial contingency of forms of self-governance; its legitimization and the collective identity of the groups behind them; the relations to different levels of state governance as well as to other local groups. Overall, this volume makes an interdisciplinary contribution to a better understanding of fundamental elements of local governance and statehood.


The Future of the Electronic Marketplace

The Future of the Electronic Marketplace

Author: Derek Leebaert

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1999-08-18

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780262621328

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The electronic marketplace is a global one, and it's changing every aspect of the consumer-vendor relathionship. The marketplace is the place of exchange between buyer and seller. Once one rode a mule to get there; now one rides the Internet. An electronic marketplace can span two rooms in the same building, or two continents. How individuals, firms, and organizations approach and define the electronic marketplace of the future depends on people's ability to ask the right questions now and to take advantage of the opportunities that will arise over the next few years. The contributors to this volume are prime movers in major industries that are remaking themselves in order to shape the global marketplace. They examine the consumers' new powers to assess and exchange goods and services over unparalleled distances. They discuss the opportunities and risks posed by the new integration between manufacturer and consumer, by the erosion of centralized authority, by real-time choice in every financial contingency, and by the fact that travel and transportation have been delegated to the machine processes that can best handle them. They also reflect on how to set an intelligent value on the coming changes, on the tools and procedures required to create this new marketplace of marketplaces. Contributors Les Alberthal, William D. Bandt, Robert J. Bonometti, David Braunschvig, Stephen D. Crocker, Walter Forbes, Denos Gazis, Daniel E. Geer, Jr., Irving Goldstein, Edward D. Horowitz, Daniel P. Keegan, Raymond W. Smith, Russel B. Stevenson, Jr., Patrick E. White


The Tale of Aypi

The Tale of Aypi

Author: Ak Welsapar

Publisher: Glagoslav Publications

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1784379859

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The Tale of Aypi follows the fate of a group of Turkmen fishermen dwelling on the coast of the Caspian Sea. The fear of losing their ancestral home looms over the entire village. This injustice is being made to look like a voluntary initiative on the part of the fishermen themselves, whilst the ruling powers cynically attempt to confiscate their land. One brave fisherman from the village rises up to confront them and fights for his native shore, as a response to an act of cruelty inflicted on a defenceless young woman centuries ago. This unjustly executed soul returns as a ghost during this troubled time to exact a terrible revenge on the men of the village. The relationships among the characters mirror the eternal opposition between the forces of nature, with the intervention of mystical forces ratcheting up the tension. This title has been realised by a team of the following dedicated professionals: Translated by W.M. Coulson, Maxim Hodak - Максим Ходак (Publisher), Max Mendor - Макс Мендор (Director), Ksenia Papazova.


Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond

Smart Villages in the EU and Beyond

Author: Anna Visvizi

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2019-06-04

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1787698475

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Increasing depopulation is causing huge problems for rural communities, leading to a reduction in services and infrastructure in areas with ageing populations. This book examines the concept of the Smart Village, an ICT-conscious integrated strategy which provides a sustainable solution to these problems, helping to revitalize rural areas.


Sign Languages in Village Communities

Sign Languages in Village Communities

Author: Ulrike Zeshan

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-10-30

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1614511497

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The book is a unique collection of research on sign languages that have emerged in rural communities with a high incidence of, often hereditary, deafness. These sign languages represent the latest addition to the comparative investigation of languages in the gestural modality, and the book is the first compilation of a substantial number of different "village sign languages".Written by leading experts in the field, the volume uniquely combines anthropological and linguistic insights, looking at both the social dynamics and the linguistic structures in these village communities. The book includes primary data from eleven different signing communities across the world, including results from Jamaica, India, Turkey, Thailand, and Bali. All known village sign languages are endangered, usually because of pressure from larger urban sign languages, and some have died out already. Ironically, it is often the success of the larger sign language communities in urban centres, their recognition and subsequent spread, which leads to the endangerment of these small minority sign languages. The book addresses this specific type of language endangerment, documentation strategies, and other ethical issues pertaining to these sign languages on the basis of first-hand experiences by Deaf fieldworkers.


Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea

Tales from the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea

Author: Gunter Senft

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9027268266

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This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate which topics and themes constitute the content of the stories, but also by the psycholinguistic and textlinguistic questions of how children acquire linearization and other narrative strategies, how they develop them and how they use them to structure these texts in an adult-like way. The tales are presented in morpheme-interlinear transcriptions with first textlinguistic analyses and cultural background information necessary to fully understand them. A summarizing comparative analysis of the texts from a psycholinguistic, anthropological linguistic and philological point of view discusses the underlying schemata of the stories, the means narrators use to structure them, their structural complexity and their cultural specificity.


Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today

Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today

Author: Meena Surie Wilson

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-03-21

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 0470827149

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Today's large business organizations in India have a voracious need for effective managers and talented leaders; but demand far exceeds supply. This timely and practical book offers thoroughly-researched pointers on how Indian managers can become high-performing business leaders. The leadership development curriculum proposed in these pages is based on extracting lessons from on-the-job experience. Given that the workplace is the medium through which the essentials of leadership are learned, executives and managers at all levels need to know which experiences matter, what are the foremost lessons learned, and how learning occurs. Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today offers a complete template for effective leadership, including: The seven experiences vital for developing leadership ability The 11 lessons in leadership essential for managerial effectiveness Over 50 stories and 100 wise quotations from today's senior executives that portray how leadership acumen sharpens over time Reflective exercises, self-assessments, and guidelines for self-improvement The underlying research was conducted in cooperation with the Tata Management Training Center in Pune, India, and captures the experiences and leadership lessons learned by over 100 senior Indian business leaders. As such, it offers readers both a compass and a map for traversing the terrain of leadership development. In these pages, early and mid-career managers will find a roadmap for steering their careers towards the higher echelons of executive leadership. Senior executives, at the top of their game, will find a systematic and proactive approach to cultivating the leadership talent that their organizations will require in the future. Global executives operating in India will find out how leadership and management are practiced in India.


Urban Villages and the Making of Communities

Urban Villages and the Making of Communities

Author: Peter Neal

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003-11-27

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 113450411X

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Urban regeneration is currently at the forefront of the political and professional agenda worldwide. There is a growing desire to identify and deliver solutions that not only define models of sustainable and identifiable urban form, but also underpin a real sense of a vibrant community. The design philosophy of Urban Villages has gained significant weight with government policy-makers, planners, designers and developers and is becoming a popular model in achieving a successful and flexible urban renaissance. This book documents both the roots of the Urban Village movement and its application in contemporary society. A series of essays by eminent practitioners offers particular urban perspectives. A detailed compendium of successful case-studies provides clear technical information. Urban Villages and the Making of Communities offers a professional resource, a teaching tool and learning aid.