Above: Alexandra Chauran and daughter, Eris, play Half the Sky Movement: The Game together.
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Half the Sky is the first game ever executive produced by Games for Change, which acquired the license in late 2011.
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So while reading Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn about the need to fight global poverty by unlocking the power of women, Jane had an idea.
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The relationship between Half the Sky and Games for Change began in 2009, at the annual Games for Change conference, which brought together developers of socially conscious games to trade successes and failures.
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And to be fair, despite its similarities, Half the Sky: The Game is no FarmVille, the kind of social activity that this reporter instantly blocks and often even is grounds for an instant de-friending.
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Half the Sky hopes to attract one million users to its socially conscious game, taking advantage of the momentum begun with the book and documentary and leveraging the celebrities its on-boarded as ambassadors for the brand.
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As Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn wrote in Half the Sky, more girls have been killed in the last fifty years because they are female, than men were killed in all the wars of the 20th century.
These, among others, are the truths uncovered to so many American men and women in the past year as a result of the Half the Sky Movement, the multimedia collaboration from NYTimes reporter Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn.
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Zynga is not only creating giving opportunities within its own games, but is also pitching in to help projects with similar social missions, including Half the Sky Movement: The Game, which Zynga has been on board with since the beginning, providing significant staff contributions.
Asi Burak, co-president of Games for Change says that while online games have worked with non-profits to fund raise for various causes in the past, the Half the Sky game is the first one to create content that directly aligns with the donation.
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Mother of three Kelly Arthur, says her tweens at 10, 14, and 15 years of age are also fans of the Half the Sky game, but have also started learning about other cultures through a game called Free Rice, which donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme each time a user gets a quiz question right.
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The other half of the sky is 97% dark.
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About half of the sky couches sold have been bought by couples.
After Lewis had eaten roughly half the turkey, he noticed that the sun was now low in the sky.
Hughes, who has already spent heavily to bring Roque Santa Cruz, Carlos Tevez, Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure to Eastlands in the close season, insists the Sky Blues have acted appropriately with Everton over the England centre-half.
Even in Dubai, where the sky is still alarmingly full of cranes and half-finished towers, one Western bank is contemplating building a new office for itself because existing buildings are not up to scratch.
Tholen told CNN there was about a half-hour between when the asteroid got high enough in the sky for the telescope to point at it and before the sky became too light to observe it.
Lucky (if ironic) for them, nearly half of goods exports are in energy and mineral resources, where the sky's the limit these days, but that leaves plenty else to sell in tougher world markets.
Half of them will come back to their own studio and commentary team, while the other half will be adverts for UK products that generate income for Sky.
"I was biting my fingernails for a bit in second half there and I'm glad to get the win, " he told Sky Sports.
"We were a little bit shocked in the first half that they went into such a commanding lead, " Edwards told Sky Sports 1.
With over 7 billion mobile devices in the world and over half all new phones having Smartphone capabilities, the opportunity for Lemon.com is as wide as the Patagonian sky.
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Since News Corp is not an independent shareholder, Sky's non-execs are likely to turf him out if somewhere around a half of the other shareholders vote for him to go.
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