Gamification for Social Good Hackathon

May 17th – 20th, 2015. Gamify it! Gamification Hackathon!

Organized by GIZ in partnership with iceaddis and eLearning Africa this event will gather programmers, designers, problem solvers, and subject matter experts covering issues in sustainable development to develop apps that can change Africa by the use of game thinking and game mechanics in a non-game contexts, in this case to trigger sustainable changes in social systems.
The objective is to work on gamified web applications, mobile apps and serious games to trigger sustainable change processes for social good.
The idea is to build up comprehensive, proactive capacities for the participants to drive change and achieve results for sustainable development. Serious games, and Gamification are particularly powerful ways to address individuals’ competences and change behaviour for the better.
Gamification means to use of game elements in non-game contexts in order to engage users in solving problems and learning. As such it covers areas like cognition, psychology, art, technology-enhanced education, management, multi-media and information technology. In the context of development cooperation some of the underlying questions are:
– How can metaphors and methods of computer games contribute to global transfer processes?
– Is it possible to achieve a measurable impact towards sustainable development through fun and engagement?
– Do gamified learning interventions potentially offer a bigger impact than traditional blended learning scenarios or knowledge management systems?
– Which incentives beyond points, badges or leaderboards could be applied in this specific context and what could they look like?
Such rather theoretical questions shall be met in the workshop by concrete ideas and actual real-life applications or working prototypes. Pedagogy, storytelling, augmented learning, information design, interactive design and – of cause – programming are naturally integrated in the development process.
The winning team will be invited to visit Berlin and the Online Educational Conference in December 2015!
The event will be hosted and co-organized by iceaddis. Registration is past due already.