“The concept was inspired by frequent trips through airport immigration and the realization that inspecting documents in a game setting might be fun"

• immigration

• Media
• Bureaucracy tech
• Games and gamification

It’s an unofficial NRA game that involves tactical shooting and four dimensional thinking.

• gun safety

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Artistic interventions

Censored articles were republished in books within Minecraft, giving readers the chance to inform themselves about the real political situation in their countries and learn the importance of press freedom.

• free speech
• libraries

• Open knowledge
• Games and gamification

Daybreak is a cooperative boardgame about stopping climate change. It presents a hopeful vision of the near future, where you get to build the mind-blowing technologies and resilient societies we need to save the planet.

• Climate action

• Games and gamification
• Board games

A non-profit civic platform designed to empower shared solutions.

• Games and gamification
• Democratic Innovations

Findet es im Kartenspiel KI-Kompass heraus! Hier schlüpft ihr in die Rolle von ultimativen KI-Expert*innen und helft Bürger*innen bei ihren Anfragen.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Games and gamification
• Board games

A 2024 Election Simulation Game

• US Election 2024
• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Games and gamification

The grassroots organizing app that lets you meet people where they are.

• apps
• partisan
• US Election 2024

• Organize campaigns
• Games and gamification
• Campaign tools

Gamification features on the Parti Campaigns platform

• Advocacy tech
• Games and gamification

Swipe and tap. Put communities on the map. Help humanitarians find and help vulnerable people.

• Games and gamification
• Mapping tools
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving OSM in one very specific way

• Games and gamification
• Mapping tools
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Mapeo is a free, easy-to-use, open source set of tools for collecting and mapping information. Mapeo was built by Digital Democracy with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental & human rights information and to collect data about their land. It was designed to work in entirely offline environments, is highly customizable, and built on a decentralized peer-to-peer database that allows communities to own their own data.

• Games and gamification
• Mapping tools
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.

• Mapping
• Open knowledge
• Mapping tools

A new kind of media literacy game specifically tailored for an Indonesian audience.

• WhatsApp

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your territory!

• youth
• students

• Games and gamification
• Board games
• Civic literacy

Incrições abertas em 08/08 - É um programa de Educação Cidadã que se baseia nos princípios de governo aberto: transparência, prestação de contas, participação cívica, tecnologia e inovação. O objetivo do programa é promover a educação cívica e estimular a sociedade civil a participar ativamente nas políticas do Estado, reconhecendo-se como agente de transformação em sua realidade local.

• students
• Quality education
• Brazil (federal government)

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification

We’re making games to change the face of politics.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification

Civic Story, a wacky Civic Education Game.

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy

An interactive game presenting scenarios to learn about existing and emerging digital safety issues

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Games and gamification

A game to arm people against disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Political Arena is a one-of-a-kind strategy/sim about American power where no two playthroughs are the same

• Media
• Games and gamification

The interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.

• Media literacy
• Games and gamification

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Participatory democracy

Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Games and gamification

An award for the best games for social impact of the year

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Games and gamification
• Awards and prizes

A game where players help researchers map the human brain

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Open science

The Serious Games Initiative communicates science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming.

• Media
• Games and gamification

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Games and gamification
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.

• youth

• Media
• Games and gamification

Camino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.

• racial equity

• Media
• Games and gamification

Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.

• libraries

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy

Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.

• Games and gamification
• Nonprofit tech

In Cascadia 9.0, you play as several different characters to learn how to survive and thrive in this earth-shaking catastrophe!

• earthquakes

• Games and gamification
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Viral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation to share fake news for their own gain and face the consequences of the harm it causes around them.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

• guides
• toolkits

• Digital transformation
• Games and gamification
• Data activism

You are the senior editor of the world’s most popular and trusted news organization. You have the enviable power to set the news agenda, and thereby shift the zeitgeist.

• Media
• Games and gamification

We design, build, and distribute videogames for persuasion, instruction, and activism

• Media
• Games and gamification

News game based on sorting fake and real news

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

This game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.

• apps

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

Troll Factory was developed by a team of experts at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Arsgames es una asociación cultural que promueve y gestiona proyectos de carácter cultural relacionados con los videojuegos y las nuevas tecnologías a partir de áreas de acción transversales: pedagogía y formación, investigación científica, inclusión digital y participación ciudadana.

• Games and gamification

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The New York Times's interactive on what belongs in the trash and what gets recycled

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Solutions journalism

"a free interactive game available on Minecraft Education Edition and Minecraft Marketplace, designed to teach children as young as 7 how to protect themselves and their homes from bushfires."

• Climate action

• Games and gamification

Games and gamification for local engagement

• Games and gamification