Europe ahead of itself
Posted on Sunday, March 4, 2007
After Sweden opened the first embassy in Second Life last month, now nu.nl has the story (in Dutch) that the European Commission is studying opening up a European Commission office in Second Life. What's going on here...?
Trying to get back into Second Life over the weekend to have a look at the embassy (amongst other things), I am surprised to learn that I am locked out of my second life because (1) if forgot my password (could only just remember my ackward name Sergey Arkin) and (2) in order to reset my password, I need to give the answer to the captcha ''what is your pet's name'....but I don't even have a pet, let alone that I would remember what I filled in at the time I was making the trial account (usually its something like 'qwerty' or 'qwerty@qwerty.com')...there is clearly a need for some better ID management here. Maybe the European Commission can start by giving each European a unique and personal digital identity while they are at it, instead of just hobby-horsing extending their own little Brussels island into the virtual domain...