How To Topple Dictators: civil resistance simulator

August 10, 2011

Michael J. Coren, “Civil Resistance Simulator Teaches Players To Topple Dictators,” Fast Company. “Download the how-to video game for nonviolent change, now with a special Middle Eastern edition to help continue the Arab Spring.” A video Game called “PeoplePower” is a game “developed specifically to reach an audience in repressed and often poor regions.” An interesting intersection of the “gamification-of-everything” trend (see TED video on this) as well as teaching swarmish, decentralized methods for changing emergent systems (e.g. cities, societies, nations).

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