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Applying Second Life
2003

Description:
Second Life provides a virtual space where users can access a range of tools as a means of informing, educating, empowering and warning participants in emergency scenarios, both real and simulated. The solution is posited as a media tool with clear advantages for the training of emergency services professionals and citizens in the community, as well as for critical thinking and decision-making. Second Life provides an online forum in which participants can interact, communicate and simulate action in a complex 3D graphic environment. A platform like Second Life may for example provide a virtual solution for communication challenges in the case where communities are too remote, too dispersed or even too numerous to be easily accessible in the field.
Purposes of the solution:
Improve communication and information sharing
Enhance risk awareness
Enhance preparedness
The solution could help to address the following needs of first responders and authorities:
Improve autonomy, coping abilities, and proactiveness of citizens
Improve preparedness level among citizens
Communicate with or alert citizens
Implementation type:
Web service or other digital service
Phase of emergency:
Before the crisis
Solution Provider:
Public authorities and policy makers
Emergency organisations and services
Target user:
Organised volunteers
Citizens
Emergency organisations and services
First responders
Record Management:
Created: Sep 15, 2021
Maturity level:
Implemented
Location:
USA