Davos Enters the Metaverse With Its Global Collaboration Village

Davos Enters the Metaverse With Its Global Collaboration Village
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This year, the World Economic Forum (wef) in Davos is experimenting with a metaverse version of the Swiss city that he calls his house.

Global Collaboration Village is being built using Microsoft Mesh, a more immersive version of its Teams software. The project will see more than 80 leading organizations, including meta and IMF.

Wef invited businesses to create their own virtual windows to facilitate dialogue on the major issues of the day. The virtual village is partnered with microsoft and it emphasizes giant. , is the construction of a world-class collaborative village as the virtual future of public-private cooperation. 

The Virtual Village Will Foster Collaboration, Says WEF

The organizers of the world’s most prestigious economic summit hope to create a year-round online Davos to foster public-private cooperation. The announcements set out the project's objectives in terms of global cooperation, interactivity, inclusiveness and impact, though it is difficult to know how popular the platform will be.

“With the Global Collaboration Village, we are creating the first public purpose-oriented application of the metaverse technology, building a true global village in the virtual space,” said Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum. 

"The metaverse will influence how people, governments, businesses and society as a whole think, work, interact and communicate in order to collectively address global issues. The Global Collaboration Village will expand the public-private platforms and face-to-face meetings of the World Economic Forum and offer a more open space, more sustained, and a broader reconciliation process."

The Global Collaboration Village is the last attempt to reproduce actual locations in the metaverse. The South Korean capital of Seoul recently announced “Metaverse Seoul,” which will include tax services, youth counseling, and tourism hotspots.

Last year, the island nation of Tuvalu became the first to create a digital version of itself. Last year, the Tuvalu Island Nation became the first to create its own personal digital copy. The Polynesian nation hopes to preserve its history and culture in the face of rising sea levels which could one day overwhelm the whole island.