<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">Transcript is here. <a href="https://archive.org/download/ctu-metaverse/ctu-metaverse_TRANSCRIPT.pdf">https://archive.org/download/ctu-metaverse/ctu-metaverse_TRANSCRIPT.pdf</a></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Some interesting observations on governance aspects by participants Prof. Avinash Persaud  and Vladimir Radunovic.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 7:44 AM Joly MacFie <<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com">joly@punkcast.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default">Lest it be thought that Barbados does not have a record of pioneering new technologies, one of the speakers today is <b>Alan Emtage</b>, who is <a href="https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/alan-emtage" target="_blank"><b>in the Internet Hall of Fame</b></a> for inventing ARCHIE, the first search engine.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u><div><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD" style="width:748px;background:rgb(221,221,221)"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" style="width:748px;padding:10px"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="8" style="width:600px;background-image:url("https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif");background-repeat:repeat-x;background-color:rgb(67,164,208);height:8px"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table><br><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width:600px"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:560px"><tbody></tbody></table><div style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em;max-width:560px"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a href="http://http//livestream.com/internetsociety3/ctu-metaverse" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ctu-metaverse-300x169.png" alt="livestream" width="300" height="169" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"></a>On <strong>Monday January 31 2022</strong> at <strong>09:00-12:30 AST</strong> (13:00-16:30 UTC) the <strong><a href="https://ctu.int/" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" target="_blank">Caribbean Telecommunications Union</a></strong> (CTU) in partnership with the <strong><a href="https://www.gov.bb/" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" target="_blank">Government of Barbados</a></strong> hosts a webinar '<strong><a href="https://ctu.int/event/traversing-the-metaverse-a-caribbean-perspective-2/" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" target="_blank">Traversing the Metaverse – A Caribbean Perspective</a></strong>'. In 2021 Barbados announced it would be among the first countries to <strong><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-14/barbados-tries-digital-diplomacy-with-planned-metaverse-embassy" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" target="_blank">open an embassy</a></strong> in the metaverse. It is <strong><a href="https://www.strategyanalytics.com/access-services/media-and-services/virtual-and-augmented-reality/reports/report-detail/summary-covid-19-impact-on-ar-and-vr" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" target="_blank">estimated</a></strong> that by 2025 the global metaverse market will be worth 280 billion US dollars. This webinar will enable discussion that will assist in the formulation of policy, legal and regulatory issues in an effort to educate and raise awareness of the opportunities and challenges for, in particular, small island developing states (SIDS). This will allow the relevant stakeholders to advance regional initiatives and make the necessary policy interventions in the interest of ensuring the Caribbean is poised to provide global leadership in this emerging technological space.</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>AGENDA <a href="https://bit.ly/3udPXgK" style="color:rgb(37,133,178)" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3udPXgK</a></strong></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family: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