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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:57 PM
Subject: X Prize Lab@UW, Gaming for Global Development
To: Cs-Grads <cs-grads@cs.washington.edu>, Cs-Ugrads <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, graphites <graphites@cs.washington.edu>, Faculty Faculty <faculty@cs.washington.edu>
Erika Wagner is an employee of the X Prize Foundation, who also has an
affiliation with UW’s Evans School of Public Affairs.
The intro lecture (this Friday), workshop (February 24), and spring
quarter course should be of interest to CSEers. Erika would really
like to have some CSE participants.
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From: Erika Wagner <Erika.Wagner@xprize.org>
Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:48 PM
Subject: FW: X Prize Lab@UW, Gaming for Global Development
To: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Cc: “abostrom@uw.edu” <abostrom@uw.edu>
Ed,
Below and attached are more details on our Feb 24th workshop and the
associated classes.
Interested Faculty, Staff, Grad Students and advanced Undergrads can
learn more by emailing me at ebwagner@u.washington.edu or by attending
our intro lecture this Friday from 1-4pm in MGH 287.
-Erika
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Erika Wagner, PhD
Senior Director, Exploration Prize Development
X PRIZE Foundation
email: erika.wagner@xprize.org
cell: 617-251-6714
skype: eurekab42
I PRIZE the global benefits of Exploration. What Do You Prize? | www.xprize.org
This year, the X PRIZE Lab@UW is tackling the challenging arena of
“Gaming for Global Development”. Together with the X PRIZE
Foundation, we will be exploring how prizes, gaming and social
networks can mobilize massive amounts of people and knowledge to
tackle pressing issues in the developing world. Can you use the power
of the global network to mobilize 100 MILLION people around a
challenge of global importance?
On Friday February 24th, we will be holding a 1-day workshop, bringing
together students, faculty and professionals to look at opportunities
for realizing this scale of involvement with emerging simulation,
gaming, and networking tools. The results from this workshop will
feed into our interdisciplinary spring graduate course, where students
will will have an incredible opportunity to experience X PRIZE’s
design process and to make proposals for the next multi-million dollar
X PRIZE.
We look forward to seeing interested students on Friday 1/6 from 1-4pm
in MGH 287 for our Workshop intro class.
Faculty and staff interested in registering for only the Feb 24th
workshop can email me at ebwagner@u.washington.edu
Kind regards,
Erika
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Erika Wagner, PhD
Senior Director, Exploration Prize Development
X PRIZE Foundation
email: erika.wagner@xprize.org
cell: 617-251-6714
skype: eurekab42
I PRIZE the global benefits of Exploration. What Do You Prize? | www.xprize.org
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PRIZE PHILANTHROPY AND INNOVATION: GAMING FOR GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
Variable credits
6 Jan and 2 Mar, 1:00-3:50pm, MGH 287; All-day workshop 24 Feb, 9am-4pm
PBAF599, Ann Bostrom and Erika Wagner
Email evansreg@uw.edu today to reserve your place.
– Learn the principles of open innovation
– Dive deep into the ways in which gaming and social media are
solving real world problems
– Address pressing issues in global development
– Design a global scale incentive competition
– Pitch your ideas to leaders in innovation
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In 2004, the Ansari X PRIZE for suborbital spaceflight captured the
public’s imagination, leveraging a $10M prize into over $100M in
innovation. Now the X PRIZE Foundation is developing new prizes to focus
innovation around other “Grand Challenge” themes, including genomics,
energy, health care, and education. Around the world, prizes are
gathering steam as tools for public policy, as well as philanthropy and
corporate innovation.
Our special Winter workshop and interdisciplinary Spring X PRIZE course
challenge you to apply the tools of gaming and social media to develop
revolutionary breakthroughs in global development. This is not a
theoretical exercise, but a real opportunity to design a $10M prize for
incentivizing high-leverage breakthroughs while adding essential tools to
your innovation toolkit. Together with industry leaders and maverick
innovators, we will examine the intersection of incentives and
innovation, drawing on economic models, historic examples, and analytic
tools, and pitch your ideas to members of the X PRIZE Foundation.
This is not your usual lecture course. Through interactive projects, high
profile panels, and class discussions, we will explore cross-cutting
themes in technology policy, behavioral psychology, gaming, social
networks, pattern recognition, global development, entrepreneurship and
Innovation.
Graduate students with diverse backgrounds welcomed. Advanced
undergraduates with permission of instructor.