Today at 12PM PST, the International Justice Center will be streaming into Second Life a conversation on the situation in Darfur with Dr. Francis Deng, the UN Secretary Generals’ Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide. Dr. Deng is a remarkable individual: a Sudanese national who has served as a human rights officer at the…
Category: Civil Society
Relay for Life in Second Life raises US$200K in 24 hour event
Some of the organizers of SL Relay for Life at the closing ceremonies. From L-to-R: Pituca Fairchang, Garth Fairchang, Stingray9798 Raymaker, and Fayandria Foley. I just teleported into the closing ceremony of the 2008 Second Life Relay for Life, a yearly fundraiser for the American Cancer Society that keeps getting better and better. The organizers…
Happy International Justice Day!
Press conference in Rome held by the Coalition for an ICC, July 1998. Credit: CICC. Ten years ago today, the world took a historic step from impunity toward accountability by creating the International Criminal Court. On July 17, 1998 in Rome Italy, 120 governments of the world signed into being the Rome Treaty on the…
Alain Wong & crew finish microcredit bike ride from Canada to Tijuana!
Alain Wong posts to his blog that he and his fellow hardy bike riders just completed their epic bike ride from Toronto, Canada to Tijuana, Mexico. They were riding to promote the cause of microcredit as a way of fighting global poverty. I’ve been following their trip via Alain’s blog with a mixture of admiration…
I Dig Tanzania tee-shirts!
We just got the "I Dig Tanzania" tee-shirts from the printers today! We had them created for our kids to wear for their real life trip to Chicago to meet their peers at the Field Museum, as well the paleontologists who were in Tanzania. Shawna’s dad designed the awesome logo. For some reason, we decided…
Congrats to Native Lands, Ability Commons and Texas Obesity Center for Winning USC Public Good Awards!
Congratulations to Native Lands, the Ability Commons and the Texas Obesity Research Center for winning the USC Public Good Community Challenge! Eech group is being awarded L$300,000 and a plot of land each to develop their projects in Second Life. These three projects bring such important concerns to the table — Native American heritage preservation,…
Chicago and NY teens complete virtual fossil dig in Second Life today
The I Dig Tanzania summer camp participants finished the virtual portion of their program today. Here’s a picture of our New York IDT participants posing with Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life. A dedicated group of 16 teens in Chicago and New York completed a week-long set of activities…
I Dig Tanzania Day Two: fossil digging, synapsids, and fishing fun!
Today was the second day of the " I Dig Tanzania" intensive summer camp that Global Kids is running with the Field Museum in Chicago. Today our intrepid groups of 16 teens in New York and Chi-town had a number of challenging tasks that we set out for them to make progress on their virtual…
Global Kids and Field Museum launch innovative “virtual fossil dig” for teens in New York and Chicago
Here’s some video from the launch of the "I Dig Tanzania" intensive summer camp that I am helping facilite for the next few days. Yesterday the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and Global Kids launched an intensive summer camp for a group of teens in New York and Chicago that we call "I…
REMINDER: 5 Finalists in USC Public Good & SL Challenge need your votes by June 30!
Just a quick reminder that the deadline to vote for the five finalists in the USC Network Culture Project’s "Second Life and Public Good Community Challenge" is next Monday, June 30! The finalists are: Ability Commons: Proposers Gentle Heron and Carolina Yeats Mauerkrankheit: Proposers Ping Rau and Nonny Writer Native Lands Cultural Project: Proposer Boondoggle…