Sweden opens virtual embassy on Second Life.

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Maldives opened the first virtual embassy on Second Life on may 22, 2007:

Read more ...Maldives opens first virtual embassy on Second Life

Today Sweden was the first Scandinavian country to open its embassy in Second Life:

Read more ...BBC NEWS | Europe | Sweden plans Second Life embassy

The embassy was opened by foreign minister Carl Bildt

that has Swedens most visited blog: Alla Dessa Dagar

The reason why Sweden opened its virtual embassy, is according to Bildt, that Sweden wants to be a country that takes part in the digital evolution. We say, that what happens in Sweden, happens here 10 years later, so may be we open our virtual embassy in 2017.


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"What we did see demonstrated of the embassy building seems to be a very high quality production. The obvious stuff was present, links to information about Swedish culture and travel. What did strike me was a panorama globe with the location of all the RL Swedish diplomatic missions in the world featured. An avatar can stand in the center of the globe and click on the spots marking the location of a Swedish embassy, this opens the web page to that mission".