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.
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