Pillar 1 – Bringing Virtual Worlds to Life
Pillar 1 – Bringing Virtual Worlds to Life lays the strategic foundation for the Initiative. It drives the development of global guidance, builds awareness, and defines how progress is measured.
Through six focused tracks, this pillar tackles the core enablers of trusted, inclusive, and impactful virtual environments: governance, security, accessibility, scalability, evaluation, and engagement.
Track 1
This track is dedicated to producing high-quality reports, guidelines, and best practices that serve as a knowledge repository for the development and implementation of virtual worlds. Topics included are policy and regulatory matters including governance, security and trust. This track aims to provide actionable insights and practical guidance to cities, governments, organizations, and stakeholders seeking to navigate, monitor and evaluate the complex landscape of virtual worlds, given the technological advances underway.
Track 2
This track focuses explicitly on security and trust in the citiverse and virtual worlds. As the virtual worlds involving, a range of security and trust issues emerge. Addressing these concerns is critical to fostering a safe and reliable virtual worlds and citiverse.
Track 3
This track focuses explicitly on digital inclusion and accessibility in the citiverse and virtual worlds. The creation of new digital brings a range of accessibility question in terms of digital skills, visual impairment and neuro-divergence that needs to be addressed.
Track 4
By exploring innovative implementation frameworks and approaches, financing models for citiverse related initiatives, which could include public-private partnerships, global public goods and scaling strategies. This track provides stakeholders with examples around building blocks, which can be leveraged to design city specific roadmaps for developing, implementing and scaling future ready digital stack (infrastructure, platforms, applications, knowledge, skills, regulations, etc.)
Track 5
This track focuses on the development and implementation of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) measuring and evaluating various aspects of this evolving urban-digital landscape, to provide insights into the commercial viability on of different immersive technologies in cities and to measure progress, impact, and sustainability in alignment with the New Urban Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Track 6
This track organizes a set of regular events including forums and webinars that educate stakeholders about leveraging emerging technologies, such as AR, VR and AI to deliver on opportunities between the virtual and real-worlds, relevant best practices, and successful case studies contributing to lay the foundation for the citiverse. By disseminating relevant knowledge, the Initiative provides trainings that empowers cities and communities to make informed decisions.