"2121" is a multiplayer serious game that nurtures active citizenship among digitally-savvy youth in the 21st century. This serious game's mission is to advance civic literacy and involve young people around the world in becoming informed, engaged, and responsible local and global citizens. The game is available in English, Arabic and French.
The game's educational content is a comprehensive civic education curriculum, categorized into three strands: Dignity, equality, and sustainable development; Governance; and Active citizenship
The first educational strand covers Human Rights and Sustainable Development, including Fundamental rights, Children and refugee rights, environmental protection and many more.
The governance strand is dedicated to several fundamental principles related to elections, branches of government, separation of powers, the rule of law and many more.
The third strand engages players in ideas for concrete actions they can take in order to apply what they have learnt, and improve their societies.
Set a century from now in a world ravaged by climate change, out-of-control technological progress, and conflicts, "2121" provides an enthralling and secure environment for young players to explore solutions to urgent global challenges. Participants step into a creatively designed fictional world and are challenged to shape its destiny through collaboration and competition, construction and disruption, failure, and perseverance.
The game engages players in a fictional challenge between three epic camps.
KWAN camp is inhabited and jointly ruled by humans and friendly Humanimals. Their highly ambitious plan is to revive the Earth’s glorious green days of mild climate, water abundance and biodiversity. They believe that they can achieve this through tolerance, inclusiveness, and cultural superiority.
TIWA is home to the robust humanimals: genetically engineered, they are a crossbreed of intelligent humans and strong animals that can adapt to harsh environments. The humanimals in camp Tiwa are constantly at work on improving their DNA to accelerate evolution. A strongly elitist society that strives for perfectionism and meritocracy, they despise robots and see humans as obsolete. They see the Humanimals not aligned with their camp as traitors.
XON is inhabited by the heartless robots: hyper smart, self-governed and disciplined machines, they are the product of out of control technological innovation and have developed an artificial super-intelligence far superior to humans. Driven by big data, this camp aims at world, and ultimately space hegemony, believing they alone can protect the earth from take over by extraterrestrials through technological progress, collectivism and expansionism.
Philippa is a Communications, Public Outreach and Civic Education expert with 15 years of experience in electoral technical assistance, largely with the United Nations in many countries. She has developed, planned and overseen the implementation of civic education and information campaigns including the design of communication tools. She has supported election commissions, ministries and CSOs in their civic education and outreach strategies and materials development. She produced the tri-lingual Arabic, English, French Lexicon of Electoral Terminology with UNDP. Philippa initiated and leads the production of 2121, the mobile game on active citizenship.
Philipp wrote his PhD on the "Gamification and Serious Games in International Cooperation". He has worked for the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) for more than 5 years and applied the approach of Gamification and Serious Games in different contexts such as the labour market in Egypt, the healthcare system in Cameroon or to support the peace process in Yemen. Since 2020 he has been an independent consultant for different actors in international cooperation, always on the topic he loves: Designing Serious Games for Social Good.
Yane is an international consultant working for the past decade as an expert on technology and innovation for various United Nations offices around the globe. The main focus of his work is on education technologies, knowledge sharing and management. His activities are focused on the use of modern technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence for social impact, among which is disrupting education and knowledge sharing in a way that can best serve society. As a consultant for the UN, he has worked on various EdTech solutions in the domains of electoral assistance, parliamentary development, justice and the rule of law.
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