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 CONNECT WITH ANITA ✩ Email - [email protected] ✩ Website - https://www.anitanowak.com/ ✩ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anita-now... ✩ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/anitanowak21/ ✩ Twitter - https://twitter.com/anitanowak21 ✩ Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/PurposefulEm... ✩ Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/16174… ✩ Spotify Link- https://open.spotify.com/show/... Episode edited by David Tsvariani