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Digital or analog games and activities designed to promote civic engagement and awareness through play. Many of the digital games are one-off projects, and aren’t maintained over long periods of time (for example, when browsers remove support for Adobe Flash). Gamification seeks to bring elements and mechanics of gameplay to more arduous tasks, like registering to vote.

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Tapwise

Tapwise

Cape Town

Every tap is a choice — a digital citizenship game for African citizens.

POLIHIVE

POLIHIVE

Nigeria 🇳🇬

POLIHIVE helps Gen Z Nigerians verify information, detect misinformation, and make informed civic decisions — all through play.

Deepfakes Tracker

The portal is designed to serve as a comprehensive resource for policymakers, researchers, journalists, the public, and other stakeholders to monitor the prevalence of deepfakes and understand their potential threats to society.

Russia-Ukraine ConflictMisinfo

The portal is a resource for analysts, researchers, and members of the public who are interested in understanding the nature and scale of online misinformation and disinformation about the Russia-Ukraine war.

moripo Nagareyama

moripo Nagareyama

Nagareyama City, Chiba

"moripo(もりポ)" is an eco-activity promotion platform in Nagareyama City, Japan.

Politipoly Board Game

POLITIPOLY is a 10-edition version of a famous real estate board game by artist Guillermo Gutiérrez Arribas.

Fight to Belém

Fight to Belém

Portugal 🇵🇹

Neste jogo, a democracia foi substituída pela pancada e o voto virou um ataque especial.

The Worldview Upgrader

We can predict what you are wrong about. We have asked thousands of important fact-questions to lots of people and identified the most common misconceptions.

Open Data Board Game

The Open Data Board Game is a board game built around the creation of tools using data.

España en Libertad

Spain's pro-democracy campaign, leveraging digital, influencers, and gaming, to remind the country of its post-Franco freedoms 50 years later.

Civilization V video game mod: Superintelligent AI

Researchers from the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) have released a mod for Civilization V that introduces superintelligent AI into the popular video game.

Subway Builder

Subway Builder

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs.

Starlight Stadium

Starlight Stadium spans four episodes that each tackle a different aspect of the human rights monitoring cycle.

Cranky Uncle

The Cranky Uncle game uses cartoons and critical thinking to fight misinformation.

Fake news game confers psychological resistance against online misinformation

We provide initial evidence that people’s ability to spot and resist misinformation improves after gameplay, irrespective of education, age, political ideology, and cognitive style.

Towards psychological herd immunity: Cross-cultural evidence for two prebunking interventions against COVID-19 misinformation

We find that Go Viral!, a novel five-minute browser game, (a) increases the perceived manipulativeness of misinformation about COVID-19, (b) improves people’s attitudinal certainty (confidence) in their ability to spot misinformation and (c) reduces self-reported willingness to share misinformation with others.

Sage

Sage

United States of America 🇺🇸

Building tools to make sense of the future

Ayeta Digital Rights Toolkit

Games to teach digital rights, including a quiz, password generator, and security goal setting

Anti-ICE protests in Roblox

Roblox players have started conducting virtual I.C.E. immigration raids, sparking anti-virtual-ICE protests in the game

Democracy Timeline Game

Democracy Timeline Game

Thailand (Prathet Thai) 🇹🇭

See how well you know Thai democracy

City Bus Manager

City Bus Manager

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪

Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager.

ერთიანი სივრცე (United Space)

The application allows you to be involved in the democratic process, vote anonymously, receive government services online, and also become a co-owner of important projects.

The Best Amendment

It’s an unofficial NRA game that involves tactical shooting and four dimensional thinking.

Papers, Please

“The concept was inspired by frequent trips through airport immigration and the realization that inspecting documents in a game setting might be fun"

The Uncensored Library

Censored articles were republished in books within Minecraft, giving readers the chance to inform themselves about the real political situation in their countries and learn the importance of press freedom.

Daybreak

Daybreak

London

Daybreak is a cooperative boardgame about stopping climate change. It presents a hopeful vision of the near future, where you get to build the mind-blowing technologies and resilient societies we need to save the planet.

Empowered.vote

Empowered.vote

Los Angeles

A non-profit civic platform designed to empower shared solutions.

KI-Kompass Kartenspiel

KI-Kompass Kartenspiel

Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, Germany

Findet es im Kartenspiel KI-Kompass heraus! Hier schlüpft ihr in die Rolle von ultimativen KI-Expert*innen und helft Bürger*innen bei ihren Anfragen.

Reach

Reach

Queens, NY

The grassroots organizing app that lets you meet people where they are.

캠페인즈에 뱃지가 생겼어요! (Campaign badges)

캠페인즈에 뱃지가 생겼어요! (Campaign badges)

43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Gamification features on the Parti Campaigns platform

MapSwipe

Swipe and tap. Put communities on the map. Help humanitarians find and help vulnerable people.

MapRoulette

MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving OSM in one very specific way

StreetComplete

This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.

Mapeo

Mapeo is a free, easy-to-use, open source set of tools for collecting and mapping information. Mapeo was built by Digital Democracy with and for earth defenders to easily document environmental & human rights information and to collect data about their land. It was designed to work in entirely offline environments, is highly customizable, and built on a decentralized peer-to-peer database that allows communities to own their own data.

Exploradores da Cidadania

Exploradores da Cidadania

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your territory!

Embaixadores da Cidadania

Incrições abertas em 08/08 - É um programa de Educação Cidadã que se baseia nos princípios de governo aberto: transparência, prestação de contas, participação cívica, tecnologia e inovação. O objetivo do programa é promover a educação cívica e estimular a sociedade civil a participar ativamente nas políticas do Estado, reconhecendo-se como agente de transformação em sua realidade local.

Games for the Many

We’re making games to change the face of politics.

Future Perfect

Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.

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