Read part I here
Can you
play yourself to more productive IT solutions? I know the theory that will show
you how this could be true, but how does it work in practice? ABC of ICT – or
in full: “Attitudes, behavior and culture in Information and Communications
Technology” is a card game tagged as an awareness and assessment tool, and I
was very excited to meet its creator Paul Wilkinson of Gaming Works at a
workshop in Trondheim at the ITSmF, the meeting grounds of the native IT people
in my town.
I meet Paul Wilkinson as he is
leaving lunch. We just get to exchange a couple of sentences, but instead this
gives me the opportunity to meet his target audience. I’m always prepared to be
surprised: it is my anthropologist’s special skill. And already during lunch I
realize that I’m further out in the wilderness than I knew. I’ve been
about a bit, and only after a couple of minutes I get to hear a usual phrase: “whatever
has worked elsewhere, won’t work here, because we are so different.”