Not Ingenious, but Indigenous: Africa in Virtual Worlds

On Monday 3 November, the World Bank featured on here on METANOMICS and discussed their launch into Second Life (R) and the recently released “Doing Business 2009″ World Bank Report.

It was a great honor for our project, and company, UTHANGO Social Investments to share our experiences in development in Southern Africa as ‘On the Spot’ [...]

SongBirdClone’s tune on (not-so-open) spaces for NGOs in Second Life (TM)…

In Second Life (TM) we have the opportunity to liaise with many organizations – this is, after all, WHY we are also in virtual worlds as a fellow nonprofit organization. It is widely acknowledged that one of the greatest value of virtual worlds is in working together. More about this in a follow-up post…
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