Projects tagged "internet"

Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic Engagement
Practitioner:
MacArthur Foundation and Muzzy Lane
Date:
May 6 2010
Food Force: The First Humanitarian Aid Game
Practitioner:
Konami Digital Entertainment and World Food Programme
Date:
Nov 30 2011

From Konami Digital Entertainment (makers of Dance Dance Revolution, Castlevania, and other hits) comes a significant expansion of their long-running support of the World Food Programme’s gaming initiatives. The result is the re-emergence of Food Force, one of the most successful early games for change titles.

Sweatshop A Dark Comedic Game on Offshore Manafacturing
Practitioner:
Channel 4 Education and Littleloud
Date:
Jul 17 2011

From the Games for Change website:


Through a series of thirty challenging levels players must balance the unreasonable demands of Boss, the temperamental factory owner and Boy, a gentle, hard-working child labourer. Together, the team must work to make the factory a roaring success supplying clothes to their ever-demanding retail clients.

Womens Erotic Art
Practitioner:
Womens Erotic Art
Date:
Feb 26 2013

The aim is to create an on line community that seeks to find new ways to articulate what it means to be an international women in relation to art and sexuality.

International visual artists who are making cutting edge fine art, with an erotic edge, please upload your work onto the web site for free. (see link) Also a competition has been launched, giving you a chance to win £300.

Howitcouldbedifferent.org - a wikipedia of ideas for improvement and social change
Practitioner:
Hicbd
Date:
Apr 24 2013

Have you ever wanted to see current or potential innovations for poverty or the environment without having to do a lot of researching or reading? Have you ever thought of an idea and wanted to tell the world about it and get feedback? Howitcouldbedifferent.org was founded for these purposes - to enable people to easily see, share, and suggest ideas in different categories.

Ayti: Youth-Produced Game about Haiti
Practitioner:
Global Kids and Microsoft
Date:
Sep 15 2006

From Games for Change site:


Where an Internet Joke Is Not Just a Joke
Practitioner:
Pi San
Date:
Oct 26 2011
From The New York Time
By BROOK LARMER

The cellphone vibrated softly, insistently, echoing off the whitewashed
walls of the artist’s studio. It was a Sunday morning in early April,
and Wang Bo — an Internet animator better known to his legions of online

WeTOPIA, Delivering "Joy" In a Real Way
Practitioner:
Sojo Studios
Date:
Nov 29 2011
Sojo Studios, a new entertainment company, made plenty of headlines this week with its first social game, WeTopia. The studio is gaining plenty of attention with news of its $8 million arsenal, a roster of partnerships with non-profits like Save the Children, Children’s Health Fund and buildOn, consumer brand advertisers, and Ellen DeGeneres as one its business investors and partners. 

FLOSSWorld
Practitioner:
Fundacion Via Libre
Date:
May 14 2003

Fundacion Via Libre is an Argentinian digital rights group that advocates for more user awareness of internet surveillance and policy. To build this awareness the group not only conducts activist projects and attend events, but they also work with legislative bodies to reflect the growing technology and protect users.

Conflict Kitchen sponsors live Skype Meal between Pittsburgh and Tehran, Iran
Practitioner:
Conflict Kitchen
Date:
Jun 5 2010

"A few months ago artists John Peña, Jon Rubin, and Dawn Weleski opened Conflict Kitchen, a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. Nowadays the Iranian food is served at the counter. More precisely, the kubideh, a dish made of grilled ground meat in freshly baked barbari bread with onion, mint, and basil.

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