by
Greg
on Fri 31 Mar 2006 02:43 PM BST
Jim Schuyler (
blog) is CTO of the
Dalai Lama Foundation and founder and CEO of
Red7. Jim picked up on
AFMP, (
The Game of Non-Violent strategy) - not suprising, since he's been developing '
Serious Games' long before the buzz. Red7s
Full-Immersion Technologies (FITs) for example,
make it possible to integrate a learning process, a game, or hands-on support for a complex technology, into your customer's real life. . . Create real-world games where participants find their clues in the cityscape, and interact by calling in for phone messages that take them to new places.. . . Each scenario may contain emails, video (presented online on the salesperson's computer), intranet and other web sites, phone messages, wireless text (SMS-to cellphones or PDAs), and simulated voicemail. These scenarios are implemented as sets of states and rules. A participant will always be in a single "state" within the scenario, and the FIT system is paying attention everything the participant does that's pertinent to that state. It may be sending an email from an in-game "character" to a participant, or waiting for the participant's response to that email. It may have several timers set - and when one expires it may send a reminder to the participant. It examines each incoming email from each participant, and analyzes it against the rules for the current state of the scenario.
The
DLF hosts other blogs worth mentioning here.
The One Village Foundation, which
Promote ecologically and socially responsible development in emerging markets through a comprehensive and synergistic set of programs called the oneVillage Foundation Initiatives (OVI).
The
Study Circles blog - (you can
download the Ethics for a New Millenium guide in English here, or in
Chinese here). And for those of you who have been asking about
this photo of a wifi antenna in the Himalayas have a look at
Dharamsala Information Technology Group blog, and the
Tibetan Technology Centre:
a charitable organization dedicated to harness modern technology for helping the Tibetan community in India. The center is located at the Tibetan Children's Villages School (TCV) which host and supports it. The center is managed by a board of directors who work closely and consult with a large group of local and International technology experts. The center aims to become financially self-sufficient and generate income to be re-invested in the center and donated to TCV schools.