---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lindsay Michimoto <lindsaym@cs.washington.edu> Date: Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 19:15 Subject: [Cs-grads] FW: Winter 2012 Course Offering: Gaming for Global Development To: cs-grads@cs.washington.edu From: Ellen Weinstein [mailto:ekwein@uw.edu] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 3:46 PM To: ravena@cs.washington.edu; ceney@uw.edu; lindsaym@cs.washington.edu; rispoli@cs.washington.edu; elised@cs.washington.edu; pl@cs.washington.edu Subject: Winter 2012 Course Offering: Gaming for Global Development Greetings, Can you please communicate the following course information to Computer Science and Engineering students?  We thought the students in your programs would be particularly interested in this course.  Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Ellen Weinstein Director of Academic Services Evans School of Public Affairs University of Washington, Box 353055 Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: 206.685.8983 Email: ekwein@uw.edu www.evans.washington.edu Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ellen Weinstein <ekwein@uw.edu> Date: Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:30 PM Subject: Winter 2012 Course Offering: Gaming for Global Development To: evansgrads@u.washington.edu The Evans School of Public Affairs is pleased to announce an exciting course offering for Winter 2012 . . . Course: PBAF 599D: Prize Philanthropy and Innovation – Gaming for Global Development Instructor: Ann Bostrom Dates/Times: Please see attached syllabus and slides for additional details Course Description: Join the X PRIZE Lab@UW for a one-day Workshop winter term, to test the waters for a Spring interdisciplinary course on incentivizing massive global engagement through gaming and prizes. ·         Learn the principles of open innovation ·         Dive deep into the ways in which gaming and social media are solving real world problems ·         Address pressing issues in global development ·         Design a global scale incentive competition ·         Pitch your ideas to leaders in innovation In 2004, the Ansari X PRIZE for suborbital spaceflight captured the public's imagination, leveraging a $10M prize into over $100M in innovation. Now the X PRIZE Foundation is developing new prizes to focus innovation around other "Grand Challenge" themes, including genomics, energy, health care, and education. Around the world, prizes are gathering steam as tools for public policy, as well as philanthropy and corporate innovation. Our special Winter 2012 workshop and interdisciplinary Spring X PRIZE course challenge you to apply the tools of gaming and social media to develop revolutionary breakthroughs in global development. This is not a theoretical exercise, but a real opportunity to design a $10M prize for incentivizing high-leverage breakthroughs while adding essential tools to your innovation toolkit. Together with industry leaders and maverick innovators, we will examine the intersection of incentives and innovation, drawing on economic models, historic examples, and analytic tools, and pitch your ideas to members of the X PRIZE Foundation. This is not your usual lecture course.  Through interactive projects, high profile panels, and class discussions, we will explore cross-cutting themes in technology policy, behavioral psychology, gaming, social networks, pattern recognition, global development, entrepreneurship and innovation. Graduate students with diverse backgrounds welcomed.  Advanced undergraduates with permission of instructor. The course will meet three Friday afternoons Winter 2012, one of which will be an all day workshop. Enroll winter term for 1 credit for the workshop alone, up to 5 credits for the workshop, readings, discussions and preliminary prize design development. Questions? Email evansreg@uw.edu. Course information is available at: http://evans.washington.edu/courses-degrees/pbaf-599d-special-topics-prize-p... Thank you, Ellen Weinstein Director of Academic Services Evans School of Public Affairs University of Washington, Box 353055 Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: 206.685.8983 Email: ekwein@uw.edu www.evans.washington.edu Connect with us on Facebook and Twitter