[Air-L] WEBCAST JAN 31: Traversing the Metaverse – A Caribbean Perspective

[Joly MacFie]

Transcript is here.
https://archive.org/download/ctu-metaverse/ctu-metaverse_TRANSCRIPT.pdf

Some interesting observations on governance aspects by participants Prof.
Avinash Persaud  and Vladimir Radunovic.

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 7:48 AM Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

> Lest it be thought that Barbados does not have a record of pioneering new
> technologies, one of the speakers today is *Alan Emtage*, who is *in the
> Internet Hall of Fame*
> <https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/alan-emtage> for inventing
> ARCHIE, the first search engine.
>
> REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3HnBmmE
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> [image: livestream]
> <http://http//livestream.com/internetsociety3/ctu-metaverse>On *Monday
> January 31 2022* at *09:00-12:30 AST* (13:00-16:30 UTC) the *Caribbean
> Telecommunications Union <https://ctu.int/>* (CTU) in partnership with
> the *Government of Barbados <https://www.gov.bb/>* hosts a webinar '*Traversing
> the Metaverse – A Caribbean Perspective
> <https://ctu.int/event/traversing-the-metaverse-a-caribbean-perspective-2/>*'.
> In 2021 Barbados announced it would be among the first countries to *open
> an embassy
> <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-14/barbados-tries-digital-diplomacy-with-planned-metaverse-embassy>* in
> the metaverse. It is *estimated
> <https://www.strategyanalytics.com/access-services/media-and-services/virtual-and-augmented-reality/reports/report-detail/summary-covid-19-impact-on-ar-and-vr>* that
> by 2025 the global metaverse market will be worth 280 billion US dollars.
> This webinar will enable discussion that will assist in the formulation of
> policy, legal and regulatory issues in an effort to educate and raise
> awareness of the opportunities and challenges for, in particular, small
> island developing states (SIDS). This will allow the relevant stakeholders
> to advance regional initiatives and make the necessary policy interventions
> in the interest of ensuring the Caribbean is poised to provide global
> leadership in this emerging technological space.
>
> *AGENDA https://bit.ly/3udPXgK <https://bit.ly/3udPXgK>*
>
> *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/ctu-metaverse
> <http://livestream.com/internetsociety3/ctu-metaverse>*
>
> *PARTICIPATE VIA HUBILO https://bit.ly/3rcQDkg <https://bit.ly/3rcQDkg>*
>
> *REAL TIME TEXT  *https://bit.ly/3HnBmmE
>
> *TWITTER #metaverse @TheCtunion <https://bit.ly/3g7aCL4> @Barbados
> @gisbarbados*
>
> *SIMULCASTS*
> *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>*
> *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/>* (AI
> Captions)
> *https://www.facebook.com/CaribbeanTelecommunicationsUnion
> <https://www.facebook.com/CaribbeanTelecommunicationsUnion>* (AI Captions)
> *https://youtu.be/WkKN4sjBbzY <https://youtu.be/WkKN4sjBbzY> *(CTU)
>
> *ARCHIVE*
> *https://archive.org/details/ctu-metaverse
> <https://archive.org/details/ctu-metaverse>*
>
> *Permalink*
> https://isoc.live/15129/
>
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