Edmonton, Alberta, Replicating City in Second Life

Second Life may be a scary, uncharted world for most local governments, but not for Edmonton, Alberta.

In the capital of Canadian province Alberta, CIO Chris Moore is on a mission to recreate his city in the virtual world, where avatars roam and interact like they would in real life.

Launched in 2003 by San Francisco-based Linden Lab, Second Life is an immersive online environment and a 3-D modeling tool based around simple geometric shapes that allows users to build virtual objects. At the beginning of the year, Second Life had 18 million accounts registered. Moore is one of them. When it comes to business, he likes to plug in.

By Russell Nichols, Staff Writer

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