Sunday, August 5, 2007

Community of Practice: Games for Health and Serious Games

Two resource links for the nonpublic sector and community of practices for health care games and serious games. Some of the members of these groups are also working in Second Life as a platform for delivery and collaboration.
Description of Games for Health from their home page:
The Serious Games Initiative founded Games for Health to develop a community and best practices platform for the numerous games being built for health care applications. To date the project has brought together researchers, medical professionals, and game developers to share information about the impact games and game technologies can have on health care and policy.

Click here for Games for Health link
Description of Serious Game Initiative from their home page
The Serious Games Initiative is focused on uses for games in exploring management and leadership challenges facing the public sector. Part of its overall charter is to help forge productive links between the electronic game industry and projects involving the use of games in education, training, health, and public policy.

Click here for Serious Games Initiative link