Virtual Worlds in Canada

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Comment by randy on December 21, 2009 at 7:25pm

Are the premiers of Ontario and quebec living in a vertual world or Ontario and Quebec hard to tell difference

Comment by randy on September 9, 2009 at 11:41am

they got money for something like that for sure but who knows how its spent

Comment by Skylar Smythe on September 9, 2009 at 11:38am

I didn't know they had received funding for that purpose! Wicked! ~ Skylar

Comment by randy on September 9, 2009 at 11:29am

well i think this ties into the province dumping money into the UOC to teach using the vertual library they just built (library no books)-- like build it then run around in circles looking for way to use it acedemic stradigy

Comment by Skylar Smythe on September 9, 2009 at 11:15am

Four years ago, I met a Prof from the University of Calgary. I tried to articulate the benefit of virtual worlds, but of course, he had an opinion formed on misreporting the content of our online communities, re: freaks, perverts, cheating spouses and scam artists. I talked for two hours touting the possible uses in education, business and social networking abilities of virtual spaces, to no avail.

Two weeks ago he contacted me and indicated that the University of Calgary was starting to take a look at the potential for education in virtual spaces.

:) All I could do was smile broadly.

Within the next five years I expect the Government will start to incorporate programs for education, employment and social supports using virtual access points.

I think we need to remember that current productive members of online communities are really in the Early Adopter phase of the product lifecycle. We are the "lighthouse users" of virtual worlds, contributing to it's refinement and development.

We wait... for the rest of the world to catch on :) Aren't we a clever bunch?

xo Skylar Smythe

Comment by randy on September 9, 2009 at 11:10am

cool

Comment by Buffy Bye on September 9, 2009 at 11:09am

Hi @randy, no but the pilot training will be.

Comment by randy on September 4, 2009 at 11:57am

So your saying the helicopters promiced buy the goverment for the army years ago will be virtual ???

Comment by Buffy Bye on September 3, 2009 at 8:24pm

Did anyone see this? Cdn gov putting out RFI for vw...
*Other government tenders for Virtual Worlds:
http://www.betterverse.org/2009/09/flood-of-new-government-tenders-for-virtual-world-projects-from-dhs-us-army-canada-and-nato.html

Comment by randy on September 2, 2009 at 10:15am

With a election coming soon are we in a vertual world or in a Ottawa nightmare???
Its hard to tell difference??

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