The Global Festival of Ideas will be the world’s first Playable Conference.
Our partners Free Ice Cream have built a playful layer into the Global Festival of Ideas. They will be launching the beta version of a never-seen-before collaborative digital game – 2030 Hive Mind enables delegates to explore the themes of the conference and the broader working practices of the development sector. 2030 Hive Mind will be available to download towards the end of the week starting 20 February. We will contact delegates with more details that week.
The game will be a representation of the effort needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, with delegates focussing on the set of goals to be reviewed at the High Level Political Forum in 2017.
Delegates will learn how to play a dynamic system that captures some of the complexities of global development policy. By pooling resources and responding quickly to disruptive events, delegates will be able to ‘play the system’, and along the way find that unusual collaborations sometimes bring unexpected benefits, assumptions are there to be challenged, and that careful deployment of resources are the secret to success….
Want to know more? Download our one page 2030 Hive Mind PDF on how it works and why it matters.
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