A Crash Course in Saving the World
EVOKE is a social network game that amounts to a ten-week crash course in changing the world.
The goal of the social network game is to help empower people all over the world to come up with creative solutions to our most urgent social problems. With echos of the American TV classic “Mission Impossible”
Your mission is to practice your world-changing skills, right now, wherever you are.
It is free to play and open to anyone, anywhere.
EVOKE was developed by the World Bank Institute, the learning and knowledge arm of the World Bank Group, and directed by alternate reality game master Jane McGonigal.
EVOKE is for all ages; recommended age 13 and up. Playing from your mobile phone? Limited Internet access? Slow bandwidth? Click here for the mobile & low-bandwidth version of EVOKE.
Suggestions…
- Exercise your brain while playing a game that grapples with problems requiring systemic change.
- Test your skills for
- Collaboration
- Courage
- Creativity
- Entrepreneurship
- Local insight
- Knowledge Networking
- Resourcefulness
- Spark
- Sustainability
- Vision
- Follow the blog at http://blog.urgentevoke.net/
Tags: Anti-poverty strategies, Change, games, Systemic change, World Bank