TVWSP Collaborates with Partners
Around the Globe for World AIDS Day
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The Virtual Worlds Story Project specializes in creating immersive, interactive Story Quests that help organizations, businesses, and institutions grow collaborative communities within Second Life™ and utilize them to create synergistic, collaborative, and co-creative partnerships in "real world" settings.
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WORLD AIDS DAY 2009
A TRIBUTE TO THE HEALING POWER
OF STORIES IN REAL AND SECOND LIFE
INTERNATIONAL HIV/AIDS GROUPS SET TO COLLABORATE ON
MULTI-MEDIA, MIXED REALITY CELEBRATIONS OF LIFE
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A Virtual Story Tree Dedicated to the Life
of Ryan White among the Highlights of the Day
As more and more leaders in the fight against HIV/AIDS recognize the potential for outreach and education in Second Life (SL), their focus has gone virtual. This year's World AIDS Day events promise to break new ground as a diverse group of international organizations join Karuna (the NLM-funded HIV/AIDS sim in SL) and its SL partners to cross borders of time, space, and geography to celebrate the lives of those dealing with HIV/AIDS.
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World AIDS Day Press Release #1 |
World AIDS Day Collaborators
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| Karuna * is a sim in Second Life (SL) devoted to celebrating the lives of those dealing with HIV/AIDS and making information, support, and creative services available to them in the SL community. It is funded by a grant from the National Library of Medicine written by Lor Bell, Director of Innovations at the Alliance Library System in East Peoria, Illinois.
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One of the oldest and largest science
parks in North America, The Research Triangle Park (RTP) is a 7,000
acre development that is home to more than 170 companies employing over
42,000 full-time knowledge workers and an estimated 10,000 contract
employees. Located at the core of the Raleigh-Durham-Cary CSA (Combined Statistical Area), RTP is a globally prominent high-technology research and development center that serves as an economic driver for the region.
RTP
is home to a broad spectrum of companies -- from Fortune 100
multinational research and development operations, to university
spin-outs and start-up operations. In addition, a number of U.S.
federal agencies have a presence in the Park.
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| Metanomics® explores the serious uses of virtual worlds. We are a passionate community with an interest in understanding the evolving use of virtual world technologies. We are best know for our weekly show which is broadcast before a live “studio audience” and on the Web. The show is broadcast Wednesdays at 1 pm Pacific Time and is then archived on this Web site and at Treet.TV, our production partner. We also hosts special events, community forums and this Web site to facilitate community engagement and involvement.
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| Welcome To R.O.F! A Community on the Sunset Arts II SIM in SecondLife that Memorializes, Educates, Supports and Entertains. We offer a diverse and committed peer support community that includes: A Memorial and Chapel with tributes to SL and RL loved ones who have passed. Education & Support Centers HIV/AIDS Education and Awareness Center and Memorial. V-Innovate New Resident Help and Orientation @ ROF Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Education & Support Center Live Music and Event Venues offering a mix of music styles, in concert, by some of SL's best performers, as well as hosting events, educational meetings and presentations. The Village with shops available to rent and a gathering place for our staff and visitors. ROF's Headquarters and offices for our group's support organizations.
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| Southern Tier HealthLink NY (STHLNY) was established with leadership and support from United Health Services, Lourdes Hospital and other stakeholders in 2005. STHLNY is a non-profit organization designed as a partnership which brings together healthcare providers and consumers in Central New York with technology that will improve health care quality, access, and safety while reducing costs.
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| The National Library of Medicine (NLM), in Bethesda, Maryland, is a part of the National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Since its founding in 1836, NLM has played a pivotal role in translating biomedical research into practice. It is the world's largest biomedical library and the developer of electronic information services that deliver trillions of bytes of data to millions of users every day. Scientists, health professionals, and the public in the US and around the globe search the Library's online information resources more than one billion times each year.
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| The Islands of jokaydia in Second Life are self-funded and support a range of events, activities and services. We also host a vibrant community of educators and artists as part of our rental community. The Islands are designed to provide a flexible and dynamic space for educators in Second Life which includes informal and formal meeting spaces, plus a range of interesting objects and tools to explore; and is designed to assist new residents to gain competency and confidence in using the Second Life interface – whilst they are having fun! We also support mixed reality events, professional development activities and a number of other projects.
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| We are a community of people from all over the world, from all sorts of belief systems and ideals. We are a people of creative energy and passion. We are a new way of looking for and seeing ourselves in the universe.
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| World Community Grid brings together people from across the globe who donate their idle computer time to create the largest volunteer computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can help make the planet smarter. Our success depends on individuals - like you - collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.
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| A non-profit organization helping to make Internet virtual worlds accessible to disabled individuals.
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| Since the launch of AIDS.gov on December 1, 2006 (World AIDS Day), there has been a growing interest in finding ways to use new media to disseminate information about HIV/AIDS and improve prevention, testing, treatment, and research outcomes. AIDS.gov created this blog to address that interest.
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| Artists in SEcond Life committed to using their work to help celebrate life and find a cure for HIV/AIDS. Four distinguished artists were invited to create something for this event. They are from four different parts of the world, Australia, US, Italy, and Switzerland. They are: Sledge Roffo (Primagery), Shellina Winkler and Solkide Aeur, Quadrapop Lane, Sunn Thunders, Suzanne Graves, and Jewel MacMoragh.
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