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Serious Games Put Federal Budget On A Sustainable Course

“Without a change in spending and tax policies, rising debt over the next 25 years will put the U.S. economy at risk. So we wondered, how can we best get the word out? We decided to build a computer game” - David Wessel, Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy Director Produced by two Washington-based, non-partisan and independent non-profit institutions, the Hutchins Center at Brookings and the Serious Games Initiative at the Woodrow Wilson Center , and relying on the advice from an advisory committee that represents a broad spectrum of political views, The Fiscal Ship is a new Serious Game that challenges players to put the federal budget on a sustainable course. The independent game development studio behind it is 1st Playable Productions . Funded by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Lounsbery Foundation, who exercised no editorial control over the game, The Fiscal Ship is playable for free on phones, tablets, and

Call For Papers: Application of Serious Gaming to KM Initiatives

The World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development (WJSTSD) is welcoming contributions to a special issue on the application of Serious Gaming & Simulations to KM initiatives, having   Michael Sutton , Bill and Vieve Gore School of Business, Westminster College, USA  and Allam Ahmed , SPRU – Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK as guest editors.  The Journal is published in partnership with the World Association for Sustainable Development (WASD) , a unique global forum that brings together people from across the world to discuss key issues relating to science and technology management that impact the world sustainable development. The aims of WASD are to promote the exchange of knowledge, experience, information and ideas among academicians, scholars, professionals, policy & decision makers, industry, executives, students etc. to improve the mutual understanding of the roles of science and technology in achieving sustainab