Key Trend: Using Gaming To Leverage Collective Manpower

In our research for PSFK‘s Future Of Gaming report, our consulting team noticed that game platforms are being used to engage a community of citizens around the active collection and dissemination of information—statistics, on-the- ground reporting and images—related to social, political, municipal and environmental systems. this aggregated data can establish an open source knowledge base, which can be kept up to date in real-time, helping improve decision making.

Some of the key manifestations of this trend ‘Using Gaming To Leverage Collective Manpower’ are:

Mission-Based Image Gathering For Crowdsourced Nature References

Finnish Library Uses Crowdsourced Game To Fix Indexing Errors

Swipe Card Data ‘Gamifies’ Public Transportation In London

Location Aware App For Hyper-Local News Reporting

To learn more about what’s going on in the gaming space today, order a copy of PSFK’s Future of Gaming report.