UNDP Games For Development Workshops + Fellowship

A video I shot and edited showing some of my work with the United Nations Development Programme from 2013 - 2015. Including game design for social change workshops I facilitated, projects I managed, and games I designed in Egypt, Moldova, and Bhutan.

I helped launch a multiyear partnership between the United Nations Development Programme and the Engagement Lab and grew interest UN-wide over the power of serious games for issues related to international development, human rights, and sustainability. This started with co-designing and leading a series of game design for social change workshops in Cairo, Moldova, and Bhutan, where a number of projects, both big and small, were born, some of which are still going strong today, 10 years later.

Here’s an article written by one of our UNDP Egypt collaborators, Gazbia Sorour, originally published in an internal UN newsletter.

Launched in partnership with the UNDP Innovation for the Arab States and UNDP Egypt, we also created the Game Changer Fellowship, a one-year exchange fellowship aimed at promoting and accelerating leadership and innovation in the use of games for social change.

Here’s some more info on the Game Changers Fellowship.

Me hosting a game design for social change workshop in Cairo as part of UNDP Shift Week of Innovation.