As part of this year’s Volvo Ocean Race, the organisers have designed and built an online game in which you can join in a virtual race. I can now set the sails and plot the course for the good ship ‘Digital Explorer’ and use live wind speed data to influence my decisions as well as look at what the other competitors are up to.
I am currently languishing in 636th place, despite my best efforts to drop south to pick up more favourable winds.
It’s an interesting little model. Free to enter, really engaging and pretty simple, but with pay-for add-ons if you’re really serious.
Go on, join in and see if you can beat me. You can even befriend me! See you on the water.
Volvo Ocean Race Game
Volvo Ocean Race main site
Volvo Ocean Race tv site (interesting having a dedicated micro-site as a media library)
The website for the Offscreen Student Expedition 2008 site won the Y Design Award for Best Community site. Congratulations to the team - Chris, Ciara, Colin and John - and it’s great to see their hard work pay off.
It also shows how important good design is in breaking down barriers between different cultures.
The Offscreen Student Expedition 2008 was a collaboration between Digital Explorer and the Offscreen Education Programme and was supported by HSBC, the British Council, the Said Foundation and Gulf Air.
Really proud of the team - John, Ciara and Marjan for making sure the IAE expedition blog for 2041 looks so amazing, has great functionality and went live so soon after the 2041 main site.
I just love this site, but then that’s me. It’s exciting to see how far Wordpress as a platform can be taken (this is the inner geek in me).
Published on February 3, 2008
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The main site for 2041 went live on Friday. For those of you who don’t know 2041, it’s an organisation set up by Robert Swan - the first person to walk to both poles - to preserve Antarctica.
The 2041 team have some amazing projects lined up this year, all coming soon. First off, the E-Base on King George Island off the Antarctic peninsula goes live at the beginning of March, broadcasting live on renewable energy. If they can live off solar and wind, etc. in Antarctica, it’s a message to us all to give it a go at home.
Then in mid-March the E-Base Goes Live team will be joined by a team from global corporations learning about leadership and sustainability on the Inspire Antarctic Expedition.
And if that’s not enough, the 2041 yacht on the Voyage for Cleaner Energy, will be engaging audiences along the West Coast of the US from the beginning of April.
Finally, a big big thank you to the teams at Digital Explorer and 2041 for working so hard to make this happen.
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