Save #Darfur. By gaming Digg? Did donors to a "Darfur Foundation" really want their money spent on artifically increasing a ranking on digg.com? http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/03/usocial-digg.html

Jobs: ISS editorial jobs

Fwd:

Philanthropy and new business devt now headed by the same person at Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/next-chapter-for-googleorg.html

Kenya commissions: "We are declaring the collapse of the GTV a national disaster, and are naming a 40 member team to investigate this matter."

Independent report card on Kenya's coalition published: http://www.dialoguekenya.org 

1 shisha session = 100 cigarettes

Job: UNICEF Communication Officer, Kenya (deadline 12 Jan 2009) 

More humanitarian games: Is this the first one that is not free?

"In the Netherlands, The Red Cross Game encourages online players to engage with a number of virtual public health and safety crises involving first an earthquake in Argentina and then conflict and dislocation in war-torn Zimbabwe.  Players who finish these teaser games and want to tackle the next task, a flood in Mexico, need to pay $19.95 to purchase the full version of the game, which functions as both an exercise in consciousness-raising and a fund-raising maneuver.  The game was created by I Sioux for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies." (from Osocio )

Contest: Vodafone Wireless Innovation Project

Advocacy/activist game with a message: "Raid Gaza!" http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/476393 

Social games: UNHCR gets into the gaming space with "Against All Odds" as does a UN initiative on natural disasters, the ISDR. (Tips: AlertNet)

Jobs: Editor, the Life and Peace Horn of Africa Bulletin 

Memorable Kenya news headlines (first in a series - if I get around to it): "Furious mother chews off son's ear over hunger claims" (Nairobi Star , 5/Jul/08)

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Water Games

via Akvo blog by Peter van der Linde on 12/9/08

Representatives of the gaming industry spend free time on the bus, developing water game concepts.

On the 19th of August two busses headed of from Amsterdam to an international gaming convention in Leipzig. 20 professionals from the Dutch gaming industry used the trip to freely spend 400 hours of creativity on developing water games concepts that address global water issues.

I am happy to share the news that the concepts that have been developed are now publicly available here. In January we will organize a follow-up meeting with representatives from the gaming sector to explore possibilities for cooperation in more detail.

Photo: world water pipe game. One of the game concepts that has been developed.

Since August I have gained a particular interest in these hand washing and solar disinfection games (dutch) that were developed by Ellis Bartholomeus from Laika, for Simavi. I feel such games can play an important role in awareness raising, especially when they are 'cultural neutral' and shared openly.

I am excited to see what will come of this.

Peter van der Linde is the partner-director of Akvo

 

 

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