Gaming/Simulation and the UN Sustainable Development Goals; Pieter van der Hijden

SVVV - ISAGA Webinar
Gaming/Simulation
and the
UN Sustainable
Development Goals
Pieter van der Hijden
(pvdh@sofos.nl)
Online / Indore (India),
16 January 2021
(https://bit.ly/svvv-isaga-sdgs)
Update Jan. 19th, 2021
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Agenda
References
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Metadata
ISAGA 2021
Shri Vaishnav Vidyapeeth Vishwavidyalaya, Indore - India
International Simulation and Gaming
Association (ISAGA)
Indore Madhya Pradesh, India,
52nd Anniversary Conference
September 6-10, 2021
Gaming, Simulation and Innovations:
Challenges and Opportunities
Conference prelude
Webinar VIII
Gaming/Simulation and the UN
Sustainable Development Goals
Pieter van der Hijden
Date: January 16, 2021 (Saturday)
Time: 03-04.05 PM (IST)
Contact
Email: pvdh@sofos.nl
Whatsapp/Telegram: +31 624566033
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/pietervdh/
Landing page
URL: https://bit.ly/svvv-isaga-sdgs
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Agenda
1. [5'] Opening
2. [10'] Sustainable Development Goals
3. [10'] Exercise: Create your profile
4. [10'] Gaming as part of SDG process
5. [10'] Gaming as part of SDG outcomes
6. [10'] Discussion
7. Closing
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1. [5'] Opening
Speaker profile
Gaming (and India)
Learning (international)
Making (and India)
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1. [5'] Opening
Speaker profile
Gaming (and India)
Making (and India)
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Gaming
(and India)
Model and Game (i.e. Population
Sector India), PhD Jac Geurts
[software developer]
International Summerschool on Gaming/Simulation,
Gurgaon, 2008 [developer, lecturer]
Dharadam the flourishing slum; online role
playing game [development team leader]
1. [5'] Opening
Speaker profile
Gaming (and India)
Making (and India)
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Learning
(international)
Strategic plan for distance education [consultant] Implementing digital learning environment [consultant] Teacher training, staff training, admin
on-the-job training digital learning
environment (Moodle) [consultant]
1. [5'] Opening
Speaker profile
Gaming (and India)
Making (and India)
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Making
(and India)
Fablab lifecycle management (report
based on game sessions) [chair]
Fablab alignment with SDGs [chair] Fab for Kerala [participant]
Ahmedabad: VASCSC FabLab - Ahmedabad: FabLab CEPT - Auroville: Minvayu - Bangalore: Makerspace@CMRIT - Bangalore: Workbench Projects - Bangalore: E4D Banjarapalya - Bhopal: AIC Aartech
Fablab - Bhopal: InThinks - Bhopal: Fablab AIC Aartech - Bhopal : Fablab Bhopal - Bhubaneswar: Fab Lab STPI Bhubaneswar - Chandigarh: Chandigarh - Chengannur: Mini Fablab CEC - Chennai: Peza
FabLab - Chennai: INTO Fab Lab - Chennai: Creative Lab RNTBCI - Cheruthuruthy: Mini Fablab JECC - Coimbatore: HWJunction-FabLab, Forge Factory - Coimbatore: Centre for Advanced CNC and
Robotics,. PSG College of Technology - Coimbatore: FabLabz - Dantewada: Innovation Lab, Palnar - Ernakulam: SSET FABERSPACE - ERNAKULAM: Mini Fablab Kerala SNGCE - Ernakulam: Rajagiri
Sunya Fablab - Ernakulam: MINI FABLAB- ADISHANKARA - Ernakulam: Mini FabLab FISAT - Erode: hackerslab - Gandhinagar: National Innovation Foundation -India (NIF) - Gandhinagar: EnCube
Labs - Ghaziabad: AKGEC FABLAB - jabalpur: Logicbrigade - Jabalpur: LOGICBRIGADE FAB LAB (Future Thinks) - Jabalpur: RoboKriti.India - Jaipur: BSDU FabLab - Kannur: Mini FabLab Kerala- GCEK -
Kanpur: Indian Institute of Technology - Kasaragod: Lal Bahadur Shastri Mini Fab Lab Kasaragod - Kochi: Minifab Kerala Model Engineering College Kochi - Kochi: Super Fablab - Kerala - Kollam: APJ
DREAMLAB TKMCE - Kothamangalam: Mini FabLab MACE - Kothamangalam: FabLab MACE - kottayam: Mini Fablab RIT - Kuttippuram: MINI FABLAB KERALA - MES COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING -
Manipal: Makerspace Manipal - mumbai: Maker's Asylum - Mumbai: Maker Auto - Mumbai: Indian School of Design & Innovation - Mumbai: RiiDL - Mumbai: Tata Centre for Technology and Design
(TCTD) - Nagpur: Fablab Nagpur - Nedumangadu, Thiruvananthapuram: Heera College Of Engineering and Technology-FABLAB - New Chandigarh: Mohali - New Delhi: Netaji Subhas Institute of
Technology - New Delhi: Maker's Asylum Delhi - Noida: Fablab,Noida - Pabal: Vigyan Ashram - Panchkula: Panchkula - Pathamuttam: Mini Fab Lab Saintgits - Pune: College of Engineering, Pune -
Pune: INIFD Kondhawa - Pune: INIFD Kondhawa Pune - Raipur: 36 Inc Fablab - Thiruvananthapuram: MINI FABLAB KERALA SCTCE TRIVANDRUM - Thiruvananthapuram: Mini FABLAB KERALA - CET -
Trivandrum - Thrissur: Mini Fab Lab Kerala - GEC, Thrissur - Trivandrum: FABLAB KERALA - Trivandrum - Udaipur: Destor's Laboratory - Vazhakulam: MINI FABLAB VJCET
1. [5'] Opening
Speaker profile
Gaming (and India)
Making (and India)
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What are the SDGs?
Why important?
How is India doing?
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What are the SDGs?
Successor to the 8 Millennium Goals:
2000-2015; basic needs, developing countries
2015 UN Resolution: Transforming
our world: the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development
Global Socio-Economic
Program 2016-2030
193 countries (all UN
member states)
17 Goals, 169 targets
Incl. Paris Climate Agreement
Principle: Leave No One Behind (LNOB)
Annual costs "trillions of dollars" ==> new way of financing
What are the SDGs?
Why important?
How is India doing?
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Why important?
Understand the government sector, internationally Agenda 2030 forms the worldwide policy framework
CSR - Corporate Social Responsibility
SDGs appeal to almost all sectors of society
Provides reporting framework
Business opportunities
Agenda 2030 determines direction and
provides facilities for socio-economic
innovative mega programs in all countries
What are the SDGs?
Why important?
How is India doing?
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What are the SDGs?
Why important?
How is India doing?
Bihar, 2019 Kerala, 2019
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Set-up your SDG profile
Compare the submitted profiles
Explore Indian fablabs and their SDG profiles
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Open the form: http://bit.ly/svvv-isaga-profile
Check the 17 SDGs
Choose 2-4 SDGs that best suit your company and fill in the form
What has been your main consideration in
drawing up your SDG profile?
Personal interest
Conceivable to make a concrete contribution
In line with your knowledge and expertise
Convinced of the urgent need
Other? ...
Submit the form
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Check which goals are most popular
Explore the underlying targets
Https://bit.ly/fab-sdgs-en
Next steps
Prepare an update of your company's activity
program to let it better suit your company's
Identify which (new) added value your
company has to offer to its business partners
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Https://bit.ly/fablist-sdgs
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Steps in SDG localization at the
subnational level (States/UTs)
Building Awareness
Applying Multi-stakeholder Approaches
Creating Horizontal Policy Coherence
(breaking the silos)
Creating Vertical Policy Coherence
(localizing the Agenda)
Financing and Budgeting for the Future
Mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda in
Countries in Complex Situations
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Decade of action; taking SDGs from global to local; India Voluntary National review 2020;
United nations High Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development 2020;
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/26281VNR_2020_India_Report.pdf
Building Awareness
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Building Awareness
A B C
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Challenge Opportunity
Building awareness Simple games with SDG shield
Applying multi-stakeholder approaches eg Tactec game, Tactec trilogy
Creating horizontal policy coherence eg Local plan game
Creating vertical policy coherence eg 3-level design thinking
Financing and budgetting eg The Winning Proposal game
Mainstreaming in complexity eg old school system dynamics ++
Source of the challenges: UNDP;
Mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development;
Reference Guide to UN Country
Teams; 2017
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Building Awareness
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Tactec trilogy = a kind of triathlon
1. Tactec classic - a frame game to develop a global implementation plan
2. Well-prepared wiki to convert stickers with keywords into running texts
3. Cyberdam - online role playing game engine loaded with the wiki to
start a gaming/simulation of the implementation process
Building Awareness
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Local Plan Game
1. Develop a common
vision of the state of
the local area in
terms of the SDGs
(baseline); 1.
individually, 2.
groupwise, 3. plenary
2. Determine what the
SDG priorities of the
local area are and
why
3. Come up with priority
targets to realize the
priority goals; 1.
explore the targets; 2.
select 1-3 targets per
priority goal; 3. come
to a list of max. 7
targets
4. Groupwise: Translate
one of the
development goals
into one or more
projects; Elaborate
your project (s) into
a project proposal;
Elaborate your
project in a global
budget
5. Plenary:
Bringing
together all
results
Building Awareness
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Building Awareness
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The Winning Proposal Game
2. Government: Translate SDG target
in Request for Proposals (RfP)
3. Consultant: Analyze RfP
and develop a proposal
4. Development Bank:
Assess the proposal
Building Awareness
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Macro approach
Old school system dynamics++
Eg Club-of-Rome World3 Model
Plus SDGs incorporated
Plus Parameterization
Isolated region, eg country
Versus Rest-of-World
Used as engine for policy exercises
Incorporating social actors
Norms. values, new insights
Decision-making during the run
Building Awareness
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A B
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Challenge Opportunity
Primary and junior secondary education for all
Lifelong learning
Innovation
Technology
Participation
LNOB - Leave No One Behind
Disaster Risk Reduction
Worldwide partnerships
Lifelong learning
Innovation
Technology
Participation
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Lifelong learning
Innovation
Technology
Participation
4. Ensure inclusive
and equitable quality
education and
promote lifelong
learning
opportunities for all
4.1 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable
and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and
Goal-4 effective learning outcomes
4.2 By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early
childhood development, care and preprimary education so that they
are ready for primary education
4.3 By 2030, ensure equal access for all women and men to
affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education,
including university
4.4 By 2030, substantially increase the number of youth and adults
who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for
employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
4.5 By 2030, eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure
equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the
vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples
and children in vulnerable situations
4.6 By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of
adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
4.7 By 2030, ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills
needed to promote sustainable development, including, among
others, through education for sustainable development and
sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a
culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and
appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture’s contribution to
sustainable development
4.A Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability
and gender sensitive and provide safe, nonviolent, inclusive and
effective learning environments for all
4.B By 2020, substantially expand globally the number of scholarships
available to developing countries, in particular least developed
countries, small island developing States and African countries, for
enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and
information and communications technology, technical, engineering
and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other
developing countries
4.C By 2030, substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers,
including through international cooperation for teacher training in
developing countries, especially least developed countries and small
island developing states
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Wrapup
UN Agenda 2030 (the SDGs) is an extremely
important global effort to address a number
of fundamental problems
Every country, every region, every
organization is expected to contribute to this
program
This also applies to SVVV, ISAGA and
ISAGA2021; it is a significant social impact
There are an incredible number of challenges
for gaming / simulation professionals
That means much more collaboration with
organizations at all levels, including fablabs
Gamers and fablabs have a lot to offer each
other; gamers designing and organizing social
processes; fabbers their presence "on the
ground", volunteers, resourcefulness and
commitment
6. [10'] Discussion
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7. Closing
Please fill in our evaluation form; see
https://bit.ly/svvv-isaga-evaluation
Pieter van der Hijden (pvdh@sofos.nl, +31 624566033) - Sofos Consultancy (www.sofos.nl)
Thank you for your attention!
All materials and clickable links; see
https://bit.ly/svvv-isaga-sdgs
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Decade of action; taking SDGs from global to local; India Voluntary National review 2020; United nations High Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development 2020;
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/26281VNR_2020_India_Report.pdf
Duke, R.; Gaming, the future's language; Sage Publications, 1974; http://bit.ly/richardduke
Fab Foundation; https://www.fabfoundation.org
Fab Lab Directory and more; https://fablabs.io
Geurts, J. and Duke, R,; Policy Games For Strategic Management: Pathways To The Unknown; Purdue University Press; 2004;
https://www.amazon.com/Policy-Games-Strategic-Management-Pathways/dp/9036193419/
Geurts, J.; Model and game, the contribution of simulation to long-term social planning; PhD [NL]; 1981; https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/148079
Hijden, P. van der; Gaming: the future's challenge. In Duke, R.D. and Kriz W.; Back to the future of gaming; WBV, Bielefeld, 2014;
https://www.amazon.com.au/Back-future-Gaming-Richard-Duke/dp/3763954252
Infographic Fab Labs and SDGs; https://bit.ly/fablist-sdgs
Infographic SDGs and targets; https://bit.ly/fab-sdgs-en
Klabbers, J.; The Magic Circle: Principles of Gaming & Simulation (Modeling and Simulation for Learning and Instruction); Sense Publishers, 2006
SDG India Index Dashboard; http://sdgindiaindex.niti.gov.in/
Senge, P. et al.; The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook; Doubleday, New York, 1994
The Fab Lab Life Cycle Manual; https://bit.ly/fablablifecycle
The Fab Lab Safety Game; https://bit.ly/fab-safety-game
The Fab Lab SDG Profile manual; https://bit.ly/fab14-sdgs-fablabmanager
The Fab Lab SDG Winning Proposal Game
Thiagarajan, S.; Design Your Own Games and Activities: Thiagi's Templates for Performance Improvement, Pfeiffer, 2003; https://thiagi.com
UNDP; Mainstreaming the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; Reference Guide to UN Country Teams; 2017;
https://unsdg.un.org/sites/default/files/UNDG-Mainstreaming-the-2030-Agenda-Reference-Guide-2017.pdf
References
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