Serious board games: modding existing games for collaborative ideation processes

Modern board games are booming, exploring new design elements, and providing dynamics that can support unique experiences. Serious game approaches can benefit from these insights and novelty. With the appropriate adaptation, modern board games may become flexible and cheaper ways to use and prototype serious games. Exploring these games and player engagement can support digital game design. Digital game designers may learn from modern board games to playtest player engagement and build prototypes for their serious games. This paper describes an experience with several adapted modern board games aiming to create a “Light Collaborative Ideation Process”, supported by the “Engagement Design” model and “The big five personality traits”. The game session objectives concerned fostering collaboration and ideation among participants in an informal meeting. The session successfully supported the potential of using modern board games, although showing the limitations and future developments required to benefit from the modding approach.

Progress on the Fifteenth General Review of Quotas—Report of the Executive Board to the Board of Governors (September 2018)

Following the guidance on the Board of Governors Resolution No. 72-1 (December 2016), on September 21, 2018, the Executive Board discussed and adopted its third semi-annual report on progress on the Fifteenth Review. The report covered additional issues relating to both the adequacy of Fund resources and the quota formula and realigning quota shares, discussed in an informal meeting on July 30, 2018.

Progress on the Fifteenth General Review of Quotas—Report of the Executive Board to the Board of Governors (April 2018)

Following the guidance on the Board of Governors Resolution No. 72-1 (December 2016), on April 3, 2018, the Executive Board discussed and adopted its second semi-annual report on progress on the Fifteenth Review. The report covered issues relating to both the adequacy of Fund resources and the quota formula and realigning quota shares, discussed in an informal meeting on February 2, 2018 and building on the earlier discussions in the fall of 2017.

YOUTH MOVEMENT AND ISLAMIC LIBERALISM IN INDONESIA

This article examines dynamics of Islamic discourses in Post-New Order Indonesia, focusing on the birth of Jaringan Islam Liberal/JIL (Islamic Liberalism Network). The network which emerged in 2001 was a result of informal meeting and group discussions of young intellectuals at Jl. Utan Kayu 68 H, East Jakarta who later agreed to establish the JIL. Since its earliest foundation, the networks has been at the forefront to attack Islamic extremist and fundamentalist groups while calling for Islamic liberalism. This article tries to portray the emergence of the JIL and its liberalism agenda and offers the contestation on Islamic liberalism in Indonesia. As for the latter, it not only encapsulates responses of fundamentalist groups, but also important Muslim organisation, like the traditionalist Nahdlatul Ulama/NU and the Modernist Muhammadiyah, and important Indonesian Muslim thinkers. This article further argues that Islamic liberalism that takes its root to Muslim activism during the New Order Indonesia has shaken the basic foundation of a religion as introducing liberalism in Islamic discourses. It has invited contestation and responses for a significant Muslim group, including the two-most important Indonesian Muslim organisations, the NU and the Muhammadiyah. As this article further demonstrates, the contestation is mainly because of different opinions among Muslims on the limit of reason to understand religion.

Balance of Threat of QSD toward China’s Presence in the South China Sea

<p>Abstrak<br />Latar belakang artikel ini adalah ekspansi China di Laut China Selatan serta pengaktifan kembali Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD). QSD adalah pertemuan non-formal yang beranggotakan United States, Australia, India, dan Japan. Artikel ini berusaha untuk menjawab ‘Apa keunggulan yang dimiliki oleh QSD pasca pengaktifan kembali mereka untuk menghadapi kehadiran China di Laut China Selatan?’. Teori utama yang digunakan dalam artikel ini adalah Balance of Threat dari Stephen Walt. Hasil dari artikel ini memperlihatkan keunggulan yang dimiliki oleh QSD adalah lokasi geografis, sebagian besar sumber daya dan persenjataan, serta program latihan perang bersama dan modernisasi persenjataan. Keunggulan tersebut dapat digunakan QSD untuk menghadapi niat mengancam dari China dengan kehadiran mereka di Laut China Selatan.</p><p>Abstract<br />The background of this article is the expansion of China in the South China Sea and the reactivation of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QSD). QSD is an informal meeting with members from the United States, Australia, India, and Japan. This article seeks to answer 'What advantages does QSD have after their reactivation to face China's presence in the South China Sea?'. The main theory used in this article is the Balance of Threat from Stephen Walt. The results of this article show the advantages possessed by QSD is the geographical location, the majority of resources and weapons, as well as joint war training and weapon modernization programs. These advantages can be used by QSD to face the threatening intentions of China with its presence in the South China Sea.</p>

The Two hundred and Fiftieth-anniversary Celebration of the Royal Society and The International Entomological Congress

This chapter describes how John Henry Comstock was asked to represent Cornell University at the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Royal Society of London in 1912. On the evening after the Comstocks' arrival in London, Henry went to the first informal meeting of the delegates to the Royal Society Celebration. On July 16, 1912, there was an impressive service in Westminster Abbey, which was attended by the delegates who were all in Academic dress. That evening, there was a great dinner in the Guild hall for the delegates. Eleven of the wives of delegates, including Anna Botsford Comstock, were entertained at dinner by Lady Bradford at her home in Manchester Square. The closing event of the celebration was the garden party at Windsor Castle. The delegates were received by their Majesties in the palace and were shown through it afterwards. Henry then attended the International Congress of Entomologists in Oxford in August of 1912.

Delimitation of Funga as a valid term for the diversity of fungal communities: the Fauna, Flora & Funga proposal (FF&F)

As public policies and conservation requirements for biodiversity evolve there is a need for a term for the kingdom Fungi equivalent to Fauna and Flora. This need is considered to be urgent in order to simplify projects oriented toward implemention of educational and conservation goals. In an informal meeting held during the IX Congreso Latinoamericano de Micología by the authors, the idea of clarifying this matter initiated an extensive search of pertinent terminologies. As a result of these discussions and reviews, we propose that the word Funga be employed as an accurate and encompassing term for these purposes. This supports the proposal of the three Fs, Fauna, Flora and Funga, to highlight parallel terminology referring to treatments of these macrorganism of particular geographical areas. Alternative terms and proposals are acknowledged and discussed.

La apuesta asimétrica de Europa en el marco de la crisis

LABURPENA: Bada aukera bat Europako Batzordearen Liburu Zuri argitaratu berrian gogora ekartzen dena eta Frantziak, Alemaniak, Italiak eta Espainiak onetsi dutena berriki eginiko lagunarteko bilera batean: aukera asimetrikoa. Hari buruzko gogoeta batzuk nahiko nituzke zuekin partekatu. Honela antolatuko dut artikulua: lehen-lehenik, gogora ekarriko dut Europako itunek nola diziplinaratzen dituzten Europako zuzenbidean ageri diren aukera asimetrikoak; bigarrenik, asimetriak zernolako zeregina bereganatu duen krisiaren barruan; eta, azkenik, ondorio kritiko batzuk Liburu Zuriak integrazio-bide ezberdinduen gainean dioenari buruz. RESUMEN: En este artículo quisiera compartir algunas reflexiones sobre una de las opciones recordadas en el reciente Libro Blanco de la Comisión europea y luego respaldadas por Francia, Alemania, Italia y España en una reciente reunión informal: la opción asimétrica. El artículo se articulará como sigue: en un primer momento me referiré a como los Tratados europeos disciplinan las varias opciones asimétricas presentes en el Derecho europeo. En un segundo momento trataré el tema del papel adquirido por la asimetría en el marco de la crisis. Finalmente, presentaré unas conclusiones críticas sobre el Libro Blanco con referencia al tema de la integración diferenciada. ABSTRACT: In this brief essay I shall reflect upon one of the options recalled by the recent White Paper of the European Commission and then supported by France, Germany, Italy and Spain in an informal meeting: namely asymmetry. This essay is structured as follows: in a first moment I shall recall how EU Treaties discipline the several asymmetric options present in EU law. In a second moment I shall explore the role acquired by asymmetry with the current European economic crisis. Eventually, I shall present some conclusions on the White Paper with regard to differentiated integration.