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DESCRIPTION: Virtual worlds are rapidly evolving from experimental entertai
 nment spaces into persistent socio-technical infrastructures spanning heal
 thcare\, education\, industry\, and public services. This transition prese
 nts a unique regulatory convergence\, simultaneously invoking rules on dat
 a protection\, artificial intelligence\, cybersecurity\, digital identity\
 , and intellectual property. Traditional regulation is often too slow and 
 fragmented to address these hybrid environments without either stifling in
 novation or failing to protect fundamental rights.  \n\n This webinar\, ho
 sted by the EU-funded OPENVERSE project\, builds upon the recently publish
 ed OPENVERSE policy brief\, "Regulatory Sandboxes for Virtual Worlds Innov
 ation"\, to discuss on the potential of controlled\, evidence-generating t
 esting environments to help Europe build a trustworthy\, inclusive\, and c
 ompetitive OPENVERSE. \n\n Core Objectives \n\n \n Explore Experimental Go
 vernance: Discuss how regulatory sandboxes provide a supervised environmen
 t for innovators to test technologies and business models while generating
  real-world evidence for future EU legislation.  \n Showcase the OPENVERSE
  Observatory: Provide insights into the OPENVERSE Observatory's curated co
 llection of international regulatory sandbox case studies.  \n Bridge the 
 Local and the European: Understand how municipalities and academic institu
 tions interface with virtual world sandboxes to foster human-centric urban
  innovation and local digital ecosystems. \n Bridge the Real and the Virtu
 al: Explain how it could be possible to model the evolution of European ci
 ty cultures through advanced Digital Twins. \n Introduce the concept of Vi
 rtual Innovation Districts: Examine EABID's proposal to leverage existing 
 knowledge to create a "Virtual Innovation District": a pan-European orches
 tration layer that simplifies cross-border scaling for micro-enterprises a
 nd startups. \n \n
LAST-MODIFIED:20261009T173248
LOCATION:Online 
ORGANIZER:mailto:info@open-verse.eu
SUMMARY:Regulatory Sandboxes for Virtual Worlds Innovation
URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/openverse/regulatory-sandboxes-for-virtual-worl
 ds-innovation
URL;VALUE=URI:https://ti.to/openverse/regulatory-sandboxes-for-virtual-worl
 ds-innovation
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