The hero I've chosen to follow is Jane McGonigal, a game designer who helped work on EVOKE. I chose Jane McGonigal because I believe she is being innovative towards tackling some of our world's biggest problems: more specifically, by integrating global education through a massively multiplayer online game (that is, EVOKE). A lack of knowledge (which leads to increased apathy) of global issues is one of the biggest problems our world is facing today. Many people are unaware (and uncaring) about issues such as the events of Darfur, the problem of diseases like Ch***ra in third world countries, and the constant fatal clashes between religious groups around the planet. Instead, their minds remain stuck to things such as the internet and video games, which potentially exist as an escape from the truth of our reality. Eradicating either of these would be near impossible. Instead, Jane (and the rest of the EVOKE team) decided to be innovative and utilized existing tools to implement change; that is, they added an element of reality to an online video game in order to get people thinking about global issues. For reasons such as this, I chose Jane McGonigal as my innovative hero to shadow, which I am doing by subscribing to both her Twitter and her blog.
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