Overview
The context of growing surveillance and attacks against privacy rights are creating diverse coalitions of individuals who are interesting in the actions of the EU in protecting fundamental rights, however it is not always clear for those participating how they can effect change.
Fields like gaming, and in particular serious gaming, hold a lot of promise for engaging these audiences in thinking how they can move from concern to action and join activists and civil society organisations in campaigning for change.
Through the lens of privacy rights protection and the medium of new technologies, in particular serious gaming, this session explores how technology can be harnessed for work on the protection of citizen rights and looks forward to how we can build strong and sustainable collaborations with the digital technology sector.
In particular, during this session participants will think through new technologies and the development of a serious game on citizen rights, discuss with online gaming experts how it could be developed into a tool for mass engagement, and explore together how this could be developed into or fit within on-going campaigns.