U.S. feds ganging up on Second Life
David Weinberger points out that an AssistantDean at the National Defense University “has a formed a multi-agency consortium to establish a sizeable federal presence inthe Second Life virtual world run by Linden Labs.”
GovExec reported on this development earlier in the fall, noting that nearly 20 agencies, including NACA, NOAA, NIH, Air Force, Navy, State and Transportation are participating. Bureaucrats will find the following excerpt from the GovExec piece funny - because we’re pathetic that way.
It Takes a Real RFP to Build a Federal Virtual Infrastructure
The IRM College bought its own Second Life island at the start of the summer and Robinson said it now has a real-world request for proposals on the street to build its infrastructure.
This will include conference rooms and a virtual replica of the college’s Crisis Management Center set up this summer in NDU’s Marshall Building at Fort McNair in Washington. Robinson expects to have the virual IRM College running early next year.
I think GSA should quickly join the federal consortium so it can issue virtual RFPs, which of course will be governed by a virtual Federal Acquisition Regulation.
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