About Us
Meet the Founding Company
DevforGov was built by Geo Applied Realities (Geo A.R.), a New Zealand-founded company with a decade of experience delivering digital education tools for public sector organisations across the globe.
With a team of 15+ specialists, Geo A.R. has worked with more than 150 cities and government departments, from Auckland Council to the City of San Antonio, along with agencies such as the National Emergency Management Agency (Te RÄkau Whakamarumaru), SA Water in Australia, and Earth Sciences New Zealand.
Projects include Magical Park, the world's first augmented reality playground, What's the Plan Stan, teaching children emergency preparedness, Benefit Sharing Compass for indigenous communities, and three climate change games, developed in conjunction with Earth Sciences New Zealand.
Geo A.R. is recognised internationally, including Bronze at the International Serious Play Awards, Silver at the Global Good Awards, and named among the Most Creative People in Gaming by Idealog.
Serious Play Awards
Non-Profit
Bronze | 2025
Global Good Awards
Employer of the Year
Silver | 2025
NZATD Awards
Best Online Learning Project Finalist | 2025
Social Entrepreneur of the Year
(Gen NZ)
Finalist | 2024
Our Mission
Building a Sustainable Future
We started DevforGov because we kept seeing the same problem: good people in local government, doing their best for their communities, held back by technology that was too expensive, too complicated or too slow to get to market.
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So we took a different approach.
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Our app recycling model means the work we do for one council doesn't disappear when the project ends, it gets adapted and redeployed across different communities, so the cost of innovation gets shared. What took one team months to build, the next team gets in weeks, even days.
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And because not every community has the same budget, select solutions are available free of charge.
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Less waste. More accessible. More impact. Better for everyone.
Testimonials
Success Stories
Hear what our Geo Applied Realities Partners say
Serious games deliver a clear message: we have choices, & how we act, individually & collectively, shapes what comes next and is a powerful way of learning.
Dr Scott Stephens
Chief Scientist: Coasts and Estuaries, NIWA
Games give people who are more experiential learners, the chance of being able to play with something, mess with it, to see a connection into the real world.
Prof. Simon Thrush
University of Auckland
As a tireless advocate of rights for cats, I'm a huge supporter of social good games. I believe they are a amazing educational tools to promote topics like animal welfare.
Anne Batley Burton
Founder of The NZ Cat Foundation
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DevforGov Access
Access to DevforGov starts with discovery. Signing up to the platform is free. You can then browse the marketplace to explore products and resources. We will work with you to match your ideas with existing games through app recycling. Product subscriptions start as low as NZD$500 + GST/month. Customised changes are fast and easy. Start your innovation journey today.