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out that gamemechanics and forms ofmotivation have an effect far beyondwhat weareused tocallinggames—into themost serious areasof society.The ideas still comefromresearchand theconnectionwith their scientificwork remains,butbeing a social business allows them to have faster development cycles and opportunities for practical applications, which have a concrete impact on the SDGs through DigitalEntrepreneurship.Thenewversionof thegameenablespeople toplay it for themselves and at home, learning to bemoremindful and improve theirwell-being and health, thus directly helping achieve SDG-3. In this case, expanding the development of Singleton in the course of the #WeVsVirus hackathon is a useful example of how to align the aspects “proposed value to SDGs”, “key partner”, “customer relationships”/“customer segments”, and “beneficiaries” of our “Decade ofAction”—Canvas. 4.3 D-Wave Systems: Access toQuantumComputer Processing for Projects AddressingCOVID-19 Aswehave indicated above, quantumcomputingwill certainly havewide-ranging implications and a substantive impact on all aspects of life in the future. This obviously includes the SDGs. Witold W. Kowalczyk of Harvard-spinoff Zapata Computing (2020), a quantum computing software company, identifiesfive SDGs in particular that will be impacted by the novel computing resources quantum computing provides: • Zero hunger (SDG-2) via new algorithms for crucial soil composition analysis, nitrogen fixation, etc. • Good health and well-being (SDG-3) via increased velocity of drug discovery and simulation. • Clean water and sanitization (SDG-6) via optimized water distribution, new catalyst discovery/development • Affordable/Clean energy (SDG-7) via advances inmaterials science leading to, e.g. better batteries • Climate action (SDG-13) through improved meteorological modelling and analysis. One company that has steppedup in thewake of theCOVID-19outbreak is the Canadian quantum computing company D-Wave, one of the earliest (Lardinois 2019, p. 1) of the latest generation of quantum computing start-ups. They announced that theywould support anyone “focusing on newdrugs”, but also that they are “open to any research or teamworking on any aspect of how to solve the current [COVID-19-]crisis, be that logistics, modelling the spread of the virus or working on novel diagnostics”. In addition, their partners3 will provide “engi- neering expertise to teams that are using Leap 2 for developing solutions” 3i.a. Volkswagen, DENSO, Jülich Supercomputing Centre. 318 M. Shamsrizi et al.