WORLD BANK EXPLORES VIRTUAL WORDS AS MEANS TO PROMOTE DEVELOPMENT IN POORER COUNTRIES
October 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALL and BELINDA BLESSED, a virtual reporter, on Second Life
IT was a curious experience - attending a World Bank press conference in an Internet virtual world, watching and listening proceedings through the eyes and ears of a pixellated female digital reporter....
But the international organisation's first foray into the platform of Second Life - the largest mass user virtual environment - has to be declared something of a success: more than 1,000 journalists, aid executives, officials and development specialists were present.
Of course, they were ...
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