Gaming That Grows Empathy ft. Dr. Parag Mankeekar

Parag Mankeekar is a medical doctor, trained
anthropologist, social entrepreneur, Ashoka Fellow. He’s also the
Executive Director of
RealLives, an online video game that
aims to increase empathy across the globe. In this episode, he
explains how experiencing someone else’s lived reality from birth
to death, based on real-world statistics and big data sets, and
through gamification, encourages empathy and a heightened sense
of our shared humanity.


Play the game:


https://www.reallivesworld.com


Connect with Parag:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/paragneeti/?originalSubdomain=in


Watch Parag’s TEDx Talk: Cultivating empathy through
video-games


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RtnxIz8DaY


Watch videos of gamers playing RealLives (~1,000,000
views each):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUKRCcO0UTQ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_AdF6Aoz_w


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Episode edited by David Tsvariani