Civic Tech Field Guide
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Digital or analog games and activities designed to promote civic engagement and awareness through play. Many of the digital games are one-off projects, and aren’t maintained over long periods of time (for example, when browsers remove support for Adobe Flash). Gamification seeks to bring elements and mechanics of gameplay to more arduous tasks, like registering to vote.
Suggested reading:
- Progress in Play: Board Games and the Meaning of History – A history of board games and the powerful ideologies embedded within them, by Alex Andriesse, Public Domain Review (2019)
- How Minecraft Is Teaching Kids to Face the Threat of Climate Change – A case study of efforts to teach young children in Australia about climate action through the incredibly popular game.
- The gamification of journalism. Anna Thulin looks at how games and gamification can be used in journalism to build audience engagement and loyalty.
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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.
Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.
Digital Safetea
Kampala, UgandaAn interactive game presenting scenarios to learn about existing and emerging digital safety issues
A game to arm people against disinformation
Political Arena
United States of America (the)Political Arena is a one-of-a-kind strategy/sim about American power where no two playthroughs are the same. Create your own politician and seek fame or infamy in a fully simulated political world, complete with high stakes campaign strategizing, backroom deals, scandals, special interests, and the press. Be the politician of your dreams (or nightmares).
Stop Your Government
LjubljanaThe 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.
Danes je nov dan
LjubljanaLjubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.
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.
An award for the best games for social impact of the year
The Serious Games Initiative communicates science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming.
Camino
Oakland, CaliforniaCamino 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.
The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free
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.
BVV-Planspiel
BerlinIm 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.
Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.
In Cascadia 9.0, you play as several different characters to learn how to survive and thrive in this earth-shaking catastrophe!
Viral Spiral
IndiaViral 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.
Improve your team's data knowledge and skills
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.
Persuasive Games
Atlanta, GA, USAWe design, build, and distribute videogames for persuasion, instruction, and activism
Troll Factory
FinlandTroll Factory was developed by a team of experts at Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company.
Fakey
IndianaThis game aims to teach media literacy and study how people interact with misinformation.
PolitiTruth is a non-profit game of distinguishing political fact from fiction.
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.
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.
Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.
a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages
The New York Times's interactive on what belongs in the trash and what gets recycled
Climate Warriors
Australia"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."
You're the general manager of a large city. Balance ethics and corruption to keep your position and get things done. Whatever happens, don't get caught!
We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on their research in Uganda.
캠페이너 인생게임 | 툴킷 (Campaigner Life Game)
Korea (Republic of)An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign
@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation
Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.
Choose Your Own Fake News is an interactive "choose your own adventure" game. Play the game as Flora, Jo or Aida from East Africa, and navigate the world of disinformation and misinformation through the choices you make. Scrutinize news and information about job opportunities, vaccines and upcoming elections to make the right choices!
Civic Seed is on online multi-player RGP to prepare college students for community service work that is now an integral ...
Games for Cities City-Game Database
AmsterdamThis is a growing collection of games that improve city making
iCivics
1035 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USAiCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship
Block By Block Minecraft participatory planning workshops
UN Habitat, Beirut, LebanonDid you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.
Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational
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