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Why Nonprofits Need to Be Early Explorers of the Metaverse

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is a digital reality – a cyberspace made up of multiple virtual worlds – that combines components of social media, gaming, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), cryptocurrencies, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The metaverse is being conceptualized and developed as the merging of our physical existence with our digital lives.

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More about that Homeless Avatar in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? I also tracked down the avatar in Second Life and did an interview with the people from NGO involved in this campaign. We will start to train someone in Mensajeros de la Paz who's gonna be responsible for the avatar if the action works.

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Legal Education in Networked World: Berkman Center Discussion

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Harvard Law School in real life via the Berkman Center, there was an fascinating discussion tonight called " Legal education in a networked world." It was also interesting that when they video projected the Second Life environment on the screen, all of us avatars got very tame. " It was moderated by Charles Nesson.

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Grave Work

Non Profit Quarterly

16 As corrupt avatars for big tech, microwork sites hide the new satanic mills of firms that ‘do no evil’. 20 There are no managers, only algorithms; no fellow workers, only avatars of competitors; no obvious points of contact or information.

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Live Blog: Is Technology Really Good for Human Rights

Amy Sample Ward

But, the tools of the digital revolution are used by those against the regime but are equally used by those in the regimes. site we had to be compliant with Chinese law. When it comes to the internet, you can of course find lots of examples where twitter or facebook or email have been used by governments or corporations or regimes.

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