I don’t mess around in the virtual world of Second Life. I have enough trouble keeping up with the responsibilities my first. And I don’t really understand what goes on in Second Life or why people spend real money to purchase things for their virtual existence. That said, you should really check out this Second Life tour of the United Nations COP14 global climate talks going on right now in Poznan, Poland. Developed by the Polish company Servicetek, it’s actually a very neat representation. Watch it:
And maybe someone can tell me more about Second Life, how you use it, and how it might be used in the setting of environmental politics.
About Timothy B. Hurst
dear timothy
have a look at OneClimate.net/poznan for Second Life events daily at 5.30pm GMT all week, in a live interactive setting. you’ll see a new layer of democracy at work, when people all over the world can ‘travel’ to UN conferences like this and interact live with key expert participants there – asking questions, offering their own comments back to the experts – without shedding a drop of carbon-heavy aviation fuel, or having to get formal accreditation by the UN.
you can also find terrific short videos capturing the lowdown on what’s going on at the conference each day, filmed and edited by a multi-awardwinning crew: serious, funny, piognant.
and if you look at the main site, oneclimate.net, you can check out innumerable articles – like ‘Of avatars, scooters and Brazilians’- which give you more analysis about how SL is being used to help social-political change and save the planet and its people.
Thanks, I will!