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The World Economic Forum unveiled a prototype metaverse at its Annual Meeting 2023 where organisations can convene to tackle the world’s pressing challenges.

• Metaverse village

Working with Accenture and Microsoft, WEF is using the metaverse to create a Global Collaboration Village where organisations can convene to learn about, create solutions for, and take action on the world’s most pressing challenges.

With partners from 80 leading organisations helping to shape the village’s development, participants from around the world joined the forum in its first-ever interactive, multilateral session in the metaverse.

“The metaverse will profoundly change every part of every business, bridging our physical and digital worlds”

“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 WEF.

“Supported by a unique range of partners from the public and private sectors, the village will use the frontier capabilities of the metaverse to find solutions for addressing the big issues of our time in a more open, inclusive and sustained way.”

(Source: News18 Jan 2023by SmartCitiesWorld news team)