Serious Games Initiative
The Serious Games Initiative is project founded by the Woodrow Wilson Center
for International Scholars. The Initiative was spawned to see more games
like Virtual U created and members of the Virtual U team are involved heavily
in the project and Virtual U is heralded by the project a model for further development.
The Intiative is working to four interrelated questions:
What public policy and management issues or challenges are most amenable to computer-based gaming techniques?
What existing and emerging game technologies (such as multi-user, virtual environments) might be particularly useful when applied to policy or management issues?
How can we quickly expand the application of computer-based games to a much wider range of key challenges facing our government and other public or private organizations?
How do we identify and proactively deal with any social, ethical, and/or legal issues that might arise through the application of game-based tools to public policy and management issues?
To advance this agenda, the Woodrow Wilson Center launched the Serious Games initiative. Since 2002 it has published several papers and articles and hosted a major workshop in February 2003 that resulted in design treatments for several serious games for parks, hospitals, and high schools. These treatments are now being shown to a number of organizations that may result in their development.
Visit The Serious Games Initiative on the Web at www.seriousgames.org
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