Enhance skills and improve decision-making with real world scenarios.
Public Policy
Simulations & Games
Develop critical thinking, negotiation,
and leadership skills
- Hone skills in a realistic public service scenario
- Bridge theory and practice in a high-pressure sandbox environment
- Build organizational resilience and agility to manage future disruptions
- Apply strategic foresight to anticipate potential outcomes
Easy to run for a crowd or a course.
Organizations and universities use our sims for:
- Professional training
- Meetings, seminars & workshops
- Orientations
- Policy competitions
Add it to your curriculum:
- Engage learners
- Enhance in-person interactions
- Customize scenarios
- Integrate with existing courses
DMS offers a range of simulation subscription offerings for institutions and individual users. Please contact us to learn more about integrating our simulations into your educational and professional development programs.
The Pandemic Game
Protect your population. Preserve your economy.
Teams balance the economic, political, and public health fallout of a deadly disease outbreak, working within and between teams to devise a response.
Skills Focus
- Agility
- Multi-party negotiation
- Social dilemmas
- Communication
- Leadership
Metropolitan
A Sustainable Transit Simulation
Revitalize your city’s transportation infrastructure and build a sustainable, equitable future.
Playing as members of city government, participants decide on issues like density, housing policies, charging stations, and bus lanes.
Skills Focus
- Multi-party negotiation
- Advanced planning
- Trade-offs (long-term goals vs. short-term costs)
- Competing and overlapping goals
- Consensus-building
Host Nations
Solve an international humanitarian crisis.
Get real results. Hone real skills.
Faced with a migrant influx, teams try to manage the new arrivals.
To succeed, teams must negotiate a regional response, agree on the distribution of shared resources, and weigh the short-term costs of policies against long-term benefits.
Skills Focus
- Multi-party and bilateral negotiation
- Agility
- Leadership
- Consensus-building
- Trade-offs (long-term goals vs. short-term costs)