Barbados to open an embassy in the metaverse
The Caribbean country will be a pioneer in establishing a delegation in the metaverse and becoming a digital sovereign with the establishment of digital sovereign lands
Barbados is managing its legal declaration as a sovereign land of digital real estate with the construction of a digital embassy in the metaverse, for which it signed an agreement with Decentraland, considered one of the digital worlds greatest and most popular of crypto technology.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados certified the agreement made with the decentralized virtual reality platform for the establishment of a digital embassy. Additionally, the island’s government is finalizing agreements with “Somnium Space, SuperWorld and other metaverse platforms.”
Gabriel Abed, Barbados ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, explained that the country is considering expanding and for this it requires a great effort that allows it to found structures and acquire digital land in the diversity of virtual worlds. “The idea is not to choose a winner, the metaverse is still very young and new and we want to make sure that what we build is transferable across metaworlds,” he said.
Digital sovereignty
Abed, who heads the country’s diplomatic efforts in virtual environments, stressed that the government of his country approved last August the metaverse embassy, considering the fact as a great “unique diplomatic opportunity.”
“This is a way for Barbados to expand its diplomatic missions beyond the 18 it currently has with more than 190 countries around the world. This allows us to open the door, using technological diplomacy, which then extends to cultural diplomacy: the trade in art, music and culture.”
With the opening of this entity next January, Barbados will become the “first country in the world to recognize the digital sovereign land, for which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology and other state agencies They are analyzing the plans for several months.
Additionally, the country is hiring legal advice because it plans for the new embassy in the metaverse to comply with international law and the Vienna Convention.
M.Rodríguez
Source: diariobitcoin.com
