The last few days of conversation on the coalition of the willing googlegroup (coalition@googlegroups.com) :
Dante Gabryell Monson:
"In order to create a simulation game with maximum potential for catalyzing a paradigm shift, you need to have a knowledge layer which the game layer uses to create the game environment, and to define the rules and the responses that are elicited from players, and the consequences of player actions and environmental capacity and changes. What we are seeing in Dante-Gabryell's and Eric H's contributions, along with Global ARC (http://www.theglobalarc.org/...) is that at last, sufficient work is being done (and collected) on the knowledge side (and from the same viewpoint I have been articulating) that (the larger) 'we' can move forward collectively to combine it with social architecture (http://www.misa.org) social and ecological values, game psychology, and simulation design, and actually build a prototype of The Grand Game of RESET!!!.
"Then, in Agile fashion, we can enroll stakeholders to familiarize themselves with it, critique it, and support its iteration and expansion over time, while embedding it in the Games for Good subculture (thus tapping a larger pool of game-development talent that has the right attitude for the mission, as distinguished from body-count gamers)."
http://www.theglobalarc.org/...
"The Global ARC is led by a mix of educators, researchers, scientists, professionals and community organizers all of whom are dedicated to critical study, open dialog, social learning and shared problem solving through place-based approaches. We join forces with one another through partnerships and networking that foster globally-mindedness and equity in planning research, education and practice.
"Why call our organization an ARC? First, it’s an acronym for Action Research Center. More importantly, ARC it is a metaphor for our urgent times, time to bring diversity together—animals, plants and people—joined in a willingness to sacrifice, live simply, tread lightly, with respect. ARC also conveys a connective energy, literally as in lightening bolts and figuratively as in leaps of imaginative power that connects the otherwise disconnected."
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http://www.misa.org/
"The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is a non-governmental organisation with members in 11 of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries. Officially launched in September 1992, MISA focuses primarily on the need to promote free, independent and pluralistic media , as envisaged in the 1991 Windhoek Declaration.
"MISA seeks ways in which to promote the free flow of information and co-operation between media workers, as a principal means of nurturing democracy and human rights in Africa
The role of MISA is primarily one of a coordinator, facilitator and communicator, and for this reason MISA aims to work together with all like-minded organisations and individuals to achieve a genuinely free and pluralistic media in southern Africa."
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http://www.scribd.com/...
“Participatory Online Learning Games as a Next Generation Scenario Building Tool”
excerpt :
"This white paper seeks to explore the potential of massively multiplayer alternate reality games (MMARG’s) to contribute to real world challenges by testing its utility as a next generation scenario planning tool for complex socio-ecological problems," by Noah Raford
http://news.noahraford.com/
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http://www.automenta.com/...
Global Survival System
Rational Eudaemonic Systematic Universal Savior
"A completely transparent, internet-powered, distributed, planetary mind that manages earth's resources towards survival of all beings AND the manifestation of all humanity's dreams for the future.
"It explains all of its decisions and conclusions in terms of factual data collected from sensors and human input."
https:/docs.google.com/document/d/1sAgANJmMDIvA9C5eFeZM-Aqobsw2Fd4DVVSMOxNcaq8/edit?hl=en_USmailing list: https:groups.google.com/forum#!forum/global-survival
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Social bookmarking on Open Source Global Outcome Simulation Games at delicious and Diigo:
http://www.delicious.com/...
http://www.delicious.com/...
http://groups.diigo.com/...
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Get these folks together with the Center for Collective Intelligence (http://cci.mit.edu/) at MIT (now running a Climate CoLab contest (http://climatecolab.org/)) and other groups like them and we might build something we could use for practical purposes, economic, political and social, in fairly short order.
PS: My Climate CoLab national proposal, How to Change US Energy in One Growing Season, is at
http://climatecolab.org/...
My international proposal, Ongoing Global Brainstorm, is still in note form:
http://climatecolab.org/...