SUPPORTING CUSTOMER COOPERATION TOPROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

摘要

To support sustainable development especially in rural regions, often customer cooperation is needed, becausernsmall ecological businesses often have inadequate distribution systems. In this paper we describe a researchrnproject that improves regional development by an application which supports a community in ordering,rnsupplying and distributing organic food and other ecologically friendly products. As an extension we look intornbuilding up a virtual, decentralized eco-village. Several hundred people understand themselves as inhabitantsrnof the village, which is spread in a limited region with a diameter of about 20-30 miles, because otherwisernmaterial flows are too extensive and maintaining social bindings is more difficult.