Jan 13, 2022
Barbados is opening a diplomatic embassy in the metaverse. The diplomatic hub is being built in Decentraland. “The embassy is a small thing. The big thing is what governments can do together when land is no longer physical land and limitations are no longer part of the equation.” Gabriel Abed, Barbados Ambassador to the UAE.
So What?
So why spend the pennies on building a virtual embassy on some of the most expensive real estate in the metaverse? (Note: Barbados are building the embassy with the support of a grant from Decentraland.) Gabriel said, “This is about diplomatic parity. We simply cannot support 197 diplomatic missions around the world. We recognise that we’re a 166-square mile island -- we’re tiny -- but in the metaverse we’re as large as America or Germany.”