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

[Joly MacFie]

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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<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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