I stumbled across this, on the ELDIS (http://www.eldis.org/) community site.
It seemed relevant enough to cross-post to games, etoys and devel lists. An OLPC presence would seem perfectly logical and potentially very beneficial.
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Registration for the 2008 Fifth Annual Games for Change Festival is now available!
Please join us at Parsons the New School for Design in NYC for our annual event bringing together non-profits, educators, game designers and activists of all stripes to explore the growing movement and emerging field of games for social change.
Leading scholars Jim Gee and Henry Jenkins will open the festival with a keynote conversation on June 3rd at 4:30pm.
We are pleased to announce our closing keynote this year will be the Honorable Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, scheduled for 4pm on June 4th.
Featured panelists include: Jim Gasperini, creator of Hidden Agenda, and Chris Crawford of Balance of Power and Balance of the Planet fame; Ken Eklund, creator of World Without Oil; Michael Levine, Director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center; Shelley Pasnick, head of the Center for Children and Technology, Mary Flanagan Director of the Tiltfactor Lab, Tracy Fullerton of USC's EA Innovation Lab, and representatives from Participant Productions, the MacArthur and Knight Foundations, PBS, and Electronic Arts, among many others.
You will find our usual excellent blend of provocative panels, informal working groups, funders meetings, ample networking opportunities and the ever-popular Expo Night where you can see - and play - the new games firsthand, sponsored by Microsoft.
Check out the festival site here: http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/index.php
And don't forget the pre-festival workshop for newbies on June 2nd. We are happy to announce that this beginners workshop for non-profits new to the field. Let The Games Begin: A 101 Workshop for Making Social Issue Games was a MacArthur Foundation DML Competition award-winner out of more than 1000 applicants!
A separate registration for that day is now available from the festival site here: http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2008/101.php
We are thankful for the generous contributions of our sponsors AMD and Microsoft, as well as Parsons the New School for Design.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Suzanne