The Institute for the Future is running a 2-day game starting April 3 to “cultivate back-of-the-envelope ideas for new technologies, social enterprises, skillsets, educational approaches, and other strategies or methods to help and empower poor and vulnerable populations around the globe.” Anyone can play. Interesting example of a “serious game.” Serious games are a expected to be an important component of the not-too-distant educational approach.
The IFTF is partnering with the Rockefeller Foundation to sponsor the game, and hope to identify thousands of new ways out of poverty. Think this is impossible? Remember that gamers solved a problem that had been vexing AIDS researchers. Worth a try….