World Bank designs game to be compatible with Opera Mini

March 11, 2010 · by Espen André Øverdahl

The World Bank Institute, the learning arm of the World Bank, has launched an online computer game called EVOKE, designed to get young people involved in finding solutions to urgent problems like hunger, poverty and education. The winners of the ten week game could be mentored by social innovators and business leaders and win a trip to a conference in Washington DC.

Bob Hawkins, the producer of the game says:

"We have designed the game so that it is compatible with Opera Mini which is a browser that you can use on your cell phones," he said. "We mirror the content into Facebook which is a very popular application for students and young people on their mobile phone."

Opera Mini is huge in Africa and it's cool to see games and Web sites render perfectly in Opera Mini.

You should also read our "Why Opera Mini is important in Africa" article.

Readers' comments 14

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TamilThursday, March 11, 2010 11:21:34 AM
ishsThursday, March 11, 2010 11:46:02 AM
YndiThursday, March 11, 2010 12:24:37 PM
In my opinion, this is not really a game. It´s a community with the objective to collect ideas to save the world.

Everyone who looks for something similar without winning prizes and in german may take a look at utopia:
http://www.utopia.de/
Yonela GaiseThursday, March 11, 2010 3:47:49 PM
Wats up south african ppl i hope u r happy bcz S A host 2010 World
evilcokemachineThursday, March 11, 2010 5:29:18 PM
Have you guys seen this ? It's pretty good publicity from Google itself :

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/03/does-your-browser-behave.html
YndiThursday, March 11, 2010 7:40:12 PM
Although this is pretty good for Opera, this is what Opera users expect, because Opera claims to be the most stadard-fullfilling browser.

On the other hand Opera must not rest, because Chrome(or the slightly modified Iron I use) is faster again than Opera, so go on Opera
d4rkn1ghtThursday, March 11, 2010 10:06:45 PM
Rahel ahmedFriday, March 12, 2010 5:29:01 AM
watz up frnds
Charles SchlossSunday, March 14, 2010 4:50:18 AM
Dexter MMonday, March 15, 2010 4:08:48 AM
So, where is this game? Funny that the article doesn't link to it...
prd3Monday, March 15, 2010 1:07:59 PM
Originally posted by Yndi:

On the other hand Opera must not rest, because Chrome(or the slightly modified Iron I use) is faster again than Opera

Nope. Opera 10.51 is faster than Chrome 5.
Saurabh KumarMonday, March 15, 2010 6:12:12 PM
Originally posted by prd3:

Nope. Opera 10.51 is faster than Chrome 5.

Come on we have seen enough reports so that sometimes on some platforms Chrome does turn out to be faster than Opera.

P.S. Btw has someone changed one's username?
prd3Wednesday, March 17, 2010 1:45:23 PM
Originally posted by saurabhloyolean:

Come on we have seen enough reports so that sometimes on some platforms Chrome does turn out to be faster than Opera.

He made the specific claim that Chrome is faster than Opera. I pointed out that this is not the case. Just about all tests out there show Opera as being the fastest.
YuanTuesday, September 21, 2010 8:45:43 AM
too great