Production: New Media:
Cyberace

With its dynamic graphic design, its story format – aliens come to earth and want to identify racism amongst humans -  its modern sound track and its elements of peer education, the CYBERACE CD-ROM is an interactive video game through which young people learn about racism almost without realising it.

Young people were involved in the development of the scenarios, they took part in the professional video drama shoot and helped to road test the CD-ROM in post production, and the outcome has a very definite thumbs up from them.

Aimed primarily at 12/13 yr olds, CYBERACE is designed for use in schools, youth work and as a training resource. It also fits the requirements of the National Curriculum for Citizenship and the Scottish Curriculum for Personal & Social Development & Health Education.

The feedback is very encouraging: 

From ACRE’s newsletter, Rural Digest:

“It will teach you about people in distress from racists – like how they feel and how unfair it is on them – so in future, you could help them.”  Henry Boyell, aged 12 years"

From Connections, the quarterly magazine of the Commission for Racial Equality:

“CYBERACE is innovative and will prove a useful catalyst for group discussion, allowing the fuzzy line between what’s right and wrong to be fully debated.”

There has been considerable interest shown in the CD-ROM by organisations working with young people as a result of features in a range of publications such as UK Youth; Shabaab; Young People Now; Clipboard from NCVYS; and Bulletin, the quarterly magazine of the Runnymede Trust.

Information about the CD-ROM and Rural Media’s rural racism awareness posters Black, White & Green have been distributed by organisations enthusiastic about the resource, including Childline’s CHAT project, NCB’s Forum for Rural Children and Young People, The British Council and The Prince’s Trust.

Three educational resources catalogues – Incentive Plus, REM and AVP promote and market the CD-ROM to the formal education sector and youth related organisations throughout the UK.