As part of a Quaker school’s aim to bring issues like global responsibility, social justice and peace studies to their students, Kite Rider has been asked to trial ‘Schools for the Future’ with a group of 6th formers at Sidcot School in Summerset. Kite Rider has worked with Sidcot School which would like to see […]
Kite Rider – Strategic Adventures Recognized for Innovation
For the past year, Kite Rider has worked closely with the Midlands Environmental Business Company, the regional branch of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Development, to help them realise projects in promoting the values of sustainable development and living in a low carbon society. MEBC and its members work together to promote the overall benefits […]
A Game-Changer: ‘Schools for the Future’ Version 2.0 Comes Hot on the Heels of the Last Upgrade!
Hot on the heels of the already impressive version 1.25, comes the new version 2.0 of the ‘Schools for the Future – Peace and Conflict Assessment’ training simulation. Now with added training scenes covering an introduction and tool kit for to conflict analysis, peace-building needs assessment, risk management, relevance assessment and an introduction into impact […]
Managing the Mess – Team Up with Warwick Business School
After the success of ‘Schools for the Future’ in the development and aid sector, Kite Rider has been approached by organisations within the sector but also from the commercial world that share the need to train their people more quickly and effectively. After the release of Version 2.0, corncutter.games is now responding to this need […]
Launch of ‘Schools for the Future’ Upgrade – Version 1.25
KRSA and corncutter.games have been hard at work on an upgrade to the popular training simulation, ‘Schools for the Future – Peace and Conflict Assessment’. On request from its growing client base, the team has added a soundtrack, full audio for all scenes and dialogues and a new level of animations to add to the […]
Kite Rider and corncutter.games Permanently Join Forces
Only a year after its foundation, and after successful collaboration on the ‘Schools for the Future’ project, Kite Rider – Strategic Adventures takes over corncutter.design’s game development unit corncutter.games. The acquisition brings on board not just the unit’s powerful games development expertise but also corncutter’s founder and Lead Game Developer, Marius Strohschneider. This valuable collaboration […]
The wait is over as ‘Schools for the Future’ launches
After many months of hard work, the wait is over for an international audience as the training game, ‘Schools for the Future’ launches and is received with praise and excitement. At the request of the German Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Kite Rider Strategic Adventures, in collaboration with corncutter.games has developed the ‘Schools for the […]
A Perfect Collaboration – Team-Up With corncutter.design, Germany
Kite Rider has teamed up with web-design company, corncutter.design in a new venture to realize a major project for the German Government’s development cooperation organization GIZ. GIZ – the German Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit – approached the partnership after it learnt of the company and its capability to bring a vast knowledge of working and […]
Our Mission: High Impact Training to Reduce Risk
Kite Rider – Strategic Adventures was founded in 2012 by the former war journalist and CEO of the Peace and Conflict Journalism Network, Antonia Koop. Having worked in conflict and war zones around the globe and supporting journalists, aid and development workers as well as commercial organizations in operating in hostile environments Antonia Koop created […]
Company Foundation 2012: Kite Rider Strategic Adventures swoops in!
After over a decade working as a broadcast journalist covering conflicts in the Middle East, Eastern Africa and Southeast Asia, in 2004, Antonia Koop founded the non-profit media network PECOJON in a determined effort to improve the quality of conflict and war reporting. While leading this organisation, Antonia developed the conceptual framework of conflict sensitive […]