DataBelt
2-4 online game about open data
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Data Belt is a 2-4 player game for iOS and Android. The educational objective of the game is to encourage discussions between civil servants about the benefits and risks of opening governmental data.
The game is set in a municipal office that has to decide whether or not to open government data. Players are assigned the roles of civil servant, colleague, boss and citizen. Each of these roles have specific abilities which are needed by the team to complete their tasks, therefore inviting players to collaborate. During each round, players need to collaboratively complete office tasks, which generate governmental datasets. Datasets can be released to the public or kept closed.
For each dataset, players are shown a dataset description and are asked what to do with the dataset. The decision is synchronised across the three devices, meaning that any of the players can see the current pick and change it, if they want to. Through a synchronised checkbox, the players can suggest as a group to either open the dataset as is, anonymise it and then share it or keep it closed.
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