Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life
Here is a curious initiative: Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life
Sweden is to become the first country to establish diplomatic representation in the virtual reality world of Second Life, officials said on Friday.
“We are planning to establish a Swedish embassy in Second Life primarily as an information portal for Sweden,” Swedish Institute (SI) director Olle Wästberg told AFP.
They won’t issue visa, instead they will tell people how the obtain visa for Sweden in the real world. And they want to inform people of how nice and beautiful Sweden is… This sounds more like a regular tourist information to me, than an embassy. But nevermind – I like Sweden and I hope this helps.
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[...] 29 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Virtual worlds Since we are from Sweden we just had to write something about this. Apparently Sweden are planning to set up an embassy in Second Life. Or as this blogger points out, more likely a tourist information center since you can’t apply for visa just get information about Sweden. Which bye the way isn’t that bad that either. Even though it is quiet cold there now (not that we can tell since we live in Barcelona) it has a lot of other good things about it. Let’s not get in to that right now. But it was fun to see that the Swedish Institute had that much information about the virtual world. – Linda [...]