READ ME This text describes the data presented in the paper: WhatFutures: Designing Large-Scale Engagements on WhatsApp ======================== Introductory information ======================== Files included in the data deposit (include a short description of what data are contained): 1)Challenge Responses 2)Post Game Survey Responses 3)WhatsApp Messages Explain the relationship between multiple data sets, if required: Key words used to describe the data: ========================== Methodological information ========================== A brief method description what the data is, how and why it was collected or created, and how it was processed: Challenge Responses are multimedia files created in response to WhatFutures’ 3 challenges. Uploaded to a google drive folder from WhatsApp by the game’s administrators ‘future guides’ PostGame Survey Responses are a download of a google forms survey sent out via email to all participants. WhatsApp Messages is a large .csv of messages sent during the WhatFutures game. These were exported by future guides. Instruments, hardware and software used: WhatsApp, Google Drive, Google Forms Date(s) of data collection: June 2017 Geographic coverage of data: Data generated in Hong Kong, Kenya, Denmark, Australia, Bulgaria and UK Data validation (how was the data checked, proofed and cleaned): WhatsApp Messages has had some cleaning in terms of making the date tag more consistent (though not much) Overview of secondary data, if used: ========================= Data-specific information ========================= Definitions of names, labels, acronyms or specialist terminology uses for variables, records and their values: Explanation of weighting and grossing variables: Outline any missing data: Due to the unreliable nature of WhatsApp’s export chat function, the messages here may not be 100% of all the messages sent. ======= Contact ======= Please contact rdm@ncl.ac.uk for further information