Thanks, Everyone, for helping Launch the IJC!
Just a quick note of thanks from all of us at Global Kids Online Leadership Program for everyone's outstanding participation at the launch of the International Justice Center in Second Life. It was a tremendous, if exhausting, day and we could not have gotten through it without the amazing support from our friends, supporters, partners and volunteers, including:
- The ICC Prosecutor Mr. Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Mr. Lloyd Axworthy, president of Winnipeg University, for agreeing to help inaugurate the Center and experiment with these new technologies
- USC Network Culture Project for holding a wonderful "soft launch" of the Center on March 19 with the "Visions of Global Justice" art gala
- The Vesuvius Group for contributing your incredible building expertise
- SLCN.tv for bringing our in-world event to the web and beyond
- Our wonderful volunteers and Interns: Mercury Metropolitan, Mariel Voyunicef, and Selen Turkay
- Commonwealth Island for allowing us to use your sim for overflow
- Numedeon and Makena for working with us to stream the Kofi Annan awards ceremony in the virtual worlds of Whyville and There.com
- Of course the MacArthur Foundation for your ongoing support and guidance
- And most importantly all of you who came to our event, whether via the web, Second Life, Teen Second Life, Whyville, or There.com.
By the way, the picture above shows the Global Kids' staff managing the launch of the International Justice Center from the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. A camera crew is filming (from left to right) GK Staffer Shawna Rosenweig, me (Rik Panganiban), the ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Mr. Lloyd Axworthy, Selen Turkay and Rafi Santo in the foreground showing the live broadcast on the web by SLCN.tv.
