Sweden to Open Embassy in Second Life
January 28th, 2007 by Benjamin Duranske
Seems Sweden will be the first nation to open an embassy in Second Life.
Website “The Local” reports that Swedish Institute director Olle Wästberg told news agency AFP that Sweden is “planning to establish a Swedish embassy in Second Life” to provide passport information and “act as a link to web-based information about the Scandinavian country.”
The embassy “would not provide passports or visas, but would instruct visitors how to obtain such documents in the real world.”
Complete story here. Thanks to Thayer for the link.
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[...] Back to the international desk, CNN reports that Sweden has followed through on its earlier pledge to open a Second Life embassy. They quote the Swedish Institute: “The embassy is now open to the public and offers a smorgasbord of impressions to anyone interested in Sweden.” Legally, the “embassy” isn’t really an embassy in the traditional sense, it’s more like a tourist information center, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to quote a press release that uses the word “smorgasbord.” [...]
[...] Back to the international desk, CNN reports that Sweden has followed through on its earlier pledge to open a Second Life embassy. CNN quotes the Swedish Institute: “The embassy is now open to the public and offers a smorgasbord of impressions to anyone interested in Sweden.” Legally, the “embassy” isn’t really an embassy in the traditional sense, it’s more like a tourist information center, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to quote a press release that uses the word “smorgasbord.” Here’s a SLURL. [...]