Access Partnership is uniquely placed to understand the different components and complexities of the metaverse (interoperability, data protection, online harm, connectivity, fintech).
Our Metaverse Policy Lab provides a vendor and technology-agnostic forum where honest and insightful conversations around the metaverse can take place. We’ll help steer the tech industry to define what the metaverse is (where we are going) and help to navigate the related policy challenges (how we get there).
To encourage this exchange of ideas, we are introducing our Metaverse Dialogue Webinar Series designed to promote discussion and coordination between metaverse stakeholders. The webinar series will explore some of the challenges that the metaverse will face and build consensus on what best practice would look like.
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We can help you further with your metaverse strategies by:
- Monitoring the evolving policy and technological developments
- Facilitating open conversations around the metaverse, and its development path
- Providing strategic advice and implementing advocacy campaigns to secure your interests in the metaverse
- Engaging with policymakers, industry, associations, and individuals, to actualise the metaverse
Report | Exploring the benefits of a future metaverse
What can we learn from current virtual reality applications? The metaverse has the potential to redefine almost every sphere of our daily lives, from healthcare and education to work, commerce, and recreation
Report | The Metaversality Index 2022
The Metaversality Index 2022 (MVI 2022) is a scalable framework that measures the strength of a metaverse ecosystem. From platforms and people to places, payments, and purchases – the MVI 2022 provides a guide that takes a snapshot of how metaverse-compatible they are, underlining the aspects they excel in and identifying inherent limitations and areas where further improvements can be made.
Metaverse Dialogues
Metaverse Dialogue: Reflection 2022
Watch Metaverse Dialogue: Reflection 2022 Access Partnership launched the Metaverse Policy Lab (MPL) in February 2022 to merge our experience...
Interoperability and the Future of the Metaverse
Access Partnership’s Metaverse Policy Lab launched the fourth session of the Metaverse Dialogue Webinar Series, entitled “Interoperability and the Future...
How do we manage multiple identities in the Metaverse?
Last week, Access Partnership kicked off its third session of the Metaverse Dialogue Webinar Series – Digital Identities in the...
Metaverse Policy Lab and France Meta Association host Metaverse Dialogue: A Metaverse Constitution?
Yesterday, the second session of the Metaverse Dialogue webinar series took place and focused on the role of regulations, risks...
Access Partnership’s Fair Tech Institute and Metaverse Policy Lab host The Metaverse Dialogue
Watch The Metaverse Dialogue – An Exploratory Primer here. More than 120 discussants participated in the inaugural Metaverse Dialogue on...
Opinion
Metaverse Policy Lab Newsletter 02
Welcome to our Metaverse Policy Lab Newsletter! Our newsletter aims to provide a summary of important metaverse policy developments and...
Access Alert | The International Telecommunication Union Focuses on Metaverse
The International Telecommunication Union’s Standardization Sector (ITU-T) has established a new Focus Group that will take the first steps towards...
Center for Data Innovation | 5 Q’s with William Webb, Chief Technology Officer at Access Partnership
This article was originally published by the Center for Data Innovation on 18 January 2023. The Center for Data Innovation...
Access Alert | UAE government calls to formulate advanced regulations for the metaverse
Following the launch of the Dubai Metaverse Strategy at the Dubai Metaverse Assembly, the UAE government is formulating draft regulations...
Women in Tech Policy: Glass ceilings and sticky floors – not in the metaverse!
To view a recording of the webinar, please click here. Earlier this week, Access Partnership hosted “Women in Tech Policy:...
Access Alert | Japanese investment in digital transformation will include Metaverse and NFTs
The Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, announced this week that the country will promote efforts to expand the use...
Does the Metaverse Provide an Opportunity for Meta to Redefine its Stance on Data Privacy?
In our previous article entitled “The importance of creating an interoperable Metaverse,” Lydia Dettling discussed how much data Metaverse platforms...
Access Alert | 2022 Digital Assembly: The Future of the Internet
Last week the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union held the 2022 Digital Assembly. Among the topics...
Access Alert | Metaverse, Web3, and Gaming: Valve’s Steam Deck Allows Side-Loading
One of the newest entries to the game console offerings available is Valve’s Steam Deck, introduced in Feb 2022. Joining...
Access Alert | Launch of Metaverse Standards Forum
Yesterday the Metaverse Standards Forum was launched. As we discussed previously in our article titled “How can we protect those...
Access Alert | Dubai’s virtual asset regulator enters the Metaverse
On 3 May, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive...
The importance of creating an interoperable Metaverse
In our previous post Metaverse: Back to First Principles, Crispian Wong explored South Korea’s pioneering ‘Metaverse strategy’ and identified three...
Reports
Exploring the benefits of a future metaverse: What can we learn from current virtual reality applications?
The metaverse has the potential to redefine almost every sphere of our daily lives, from healthcare and education to work,...
The Metaverse Dialogue Series Key Takeaways 2022
In order to combine our knowledge of public policy with our experience working with future technologies, Access Partnership established the...
The Metaversality Index 2022
The metaverse has been defined as the convergence of our physical and digital lives to create a virtual community where...
Events
Forum Opportunities and Challenges of the Metaverse in Mexico
Fernando Borjon, Senior Advisor for Emerging Markets, has been invited to offer his insight at Meta and Ibero Ciudad de...
Metaverse Dialogue: Reflection 2022
We have had four successful metaverse dialogues where we’ve discussed a range of topics from digital identities, interoperability, the “metaversality”...
Metaverse Dialogue: A Metaverse Constitution?
This event will explore what a future metaverse would look like and how policy will play a role in the...
Metaverse Dialogue: Interoperability and the Future of the Metaverse
Interoperability — that is “the ability to unify economies, avatars and systems across platforms” — is often described as one...