akoha: play it forward

[Rachelle]

my friend is involved in the programming and development of an awesome new game that's meant to inspire and promote social change.

he wrote about it in his journal, and there's also a video there to watch that tells you about it. please go watch it - it really sounds awesome!

You can read about it in here:
CNET News - Gaming: Welcome to the real world | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
Montreal Gazette - Montreal Gazette
or The Washington Post - washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines

Akoha is a take on "paying it forward", the idea that you can make the world a better place by doing small acts of kindness, one little bit at a time. It's a game that, when you play, you help friends, family, and even strangers every day. As you play, you get to see how your own actions affect the lives of others, as your generosity is played forward. It’s really cool to watch a mission you’ve played travel from place to place, city to city, passed along by a chain of like-minded "Akohans".

It doesn’t just affect your own little circle of friends. They work with partners to effect change in big ways. Akoha's first partner is "Room to Read" (Home - Room to Read), who will help build a library in Nepal when they reach the first goal of 25,000 acts of kindness. These guys build and stock libraries for schoolchildren in poor parts of the world, giving the gift of education so that kids can climb their way out of poverty.


You can also read more about it at Akoha ~ Come Play It Forward and register for the beta list. And you can watch the video that tells you all about it at my friend Simon's journal at Simon Law’s Journal