Virtual Worlds, the EU citizen’s assembly, session two, day one.
The plenary sessions were set in a virtual world, which looked from the demo, very like 2nd life and note, the picture above is not from that virtual world. Observers could not see or participate in this. I have a note but the ice breaker did not really work, it was about engaging with virtual worlds, and my notes suggest that the delegates don’t know how to answer the question asked. There were also several technical problems on the video conference.
The moderators suggested that they broke the 1st plenary into four parts, inviting experts to answer questions generated by the syndicate working groups at the previous meetings. The topics were the economy, jobs & business, safety & security, health & well-being/the environment, and Society: Inclusiveness, Accessibility and Democracy.
The first speaker, Harman van Sprang, referenced the sharing economy. I wonder if this is npw an out of date concept as industrial music, and the DatenKraken have enclosed or sought to criminalise what was often published as free content. He also spoke in reply to a question that cities are the centre of innovation. He was brought to this conclusion after being approached by the city of Seoul and came to VR as a means modelling the future. See also, https://www.sharingcitiesalliance.com/. It seems that urban planning is becoming…
