Taking IT Global

TIG is an online community of youth interested in global issues and creating positive change.  It has content on culture and identity, education, the environment, health, human rights, peace and conflict and technology among others.  The site links in organisations all over the world, statistics on issues, contains blogs of young people’s experiences which help others connect and empathise, can link to projects in both the local and global community and much more >

EVOKE

Finally – an MMO (massive multiplayer online) game where you don’t kill things – you save the world. The game is a 10 week program and the first round runs from the March to the 12th May 2010.  The idea behind Evoke is to get people around the world (13+), particularly young people in Africa, involved in creatively brainstorming ideas to make solve the world’s problems.

Each mission, which is released weekly, has three parts – to LEARN (by reading a blog about the problem); to ACT (follow social innovators through social networking sites); and finally to IMAGINE (brainstorm and post ideas in game).

This project is a collaboration between the World Bank and game designer Jane McGonigal who spoke at this year’s TED conference on the wasted attributes of gamers – Gamers are super empowered, hopeful individuals who believe they can change the world – the only problem is that its a virtual world they think they can change not the real one.

Find out more about Evoke.

Stat Planet

Want to look at global trends on topics like population, life expectancy, economics, education, gender or health (among others)?  Stat Planet overlays statistics on a world map to aid students in interpreting data on a global or even regional level.  More »