This meeting happened at Slovenian day in MetaCOP27 – first ever, United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) side event in metaverse on Thursday, 17.11.2022.

MetaCOP27 is the result of mutual cooperation between Technology Park Ljubljana, Distriverse and Reeba XR companies. Republic of Slovenia recognised MetaCOP27 as a unique opportunity to present Slovenia as a green, creative and smart country, active in the field of climate change and oriented towards a green transition supported by advanced digital technologies. The project is supported by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and the Cabinet of the Prime Minister Government of the Republic of Slovenia.

At meeting there were several avatars of people that are founding members of World Metaverse Council but also there were avatars in the audience. It was possible to join meeting via Distriverse platform: https://distriverse.io/.

The audience was first addressed by Mr. Tadej Slapnik (member of World Metaverse Council) who expressed his satisfaction that the conference took place in MetaCop27. He announced that website World Metaverse Council (www.wmetac.com) has been release and invited all stakeholders to fill application form trough website and become members of World Metaverse Council.

After, Mr. Philippe Rixhon suggested next steps for developing World Metaverse Council and importance of definition of Metaverse and Web 3. After WMC define these two terms, they will be published at WMC website. He announced that in 2024 will be held Spring Symposium in Italy, that will offering an alternative human-centric perspective to the centralized metaverses proposed by Apple or Meta and will be important step in humankind travel to the future.

Nena Dokuzov, Head of Project Group for New Economy and Blockchain Technologies at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Slovenia concluded that it is a big step for Slovenia to have this kind of event in Slovenian Pavilion in MetaCOP27.

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. Whereas with the advent of new, borderless, virtual worlds, we the community want to see the creation of worlds where human beings and their avatars shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want.

Whereas it is essential that In the Metaverse as in the real world, human rights should be protected by the rule of law.

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between Metaverses.

Whereas the peoples of the Foundational World Metaverse Council reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom in all Metaverses.

Now, therefore,

The Foundation Members of the First World Metaverse Council proclaim this Universal Metaverse Council Declaration to form a common standard for Metaverses everywhere:

• Strive for an open, transparent, interoperable, decentralized Metaverse accessible to all.
• Build global collaboration, sharing technical advancements to improve the functionality of Metaverses everywhere
• Develop and share standards for global Metaverse adoption
• Promote teaching and education to encourage respect for Metaverse rights and freedoms and transparency to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance in all Metaverses
• Connect and merge resources, to accelerate the adoption of open, free Metaverses, promoting an open metaverse built on shared open source protocols, open infrastructure, and an open financial system
•  Develop protocols to ensure that creators, innovators building them, developers building on them and players playing in them are fully rewarded for their contribution.
• Develop guidelines so that people both in the real world and in virtual worlds have rights to freedom and wellbeing and that insofar as avatars can be viewed as virtual representations or modes of presentations of real people and must be perceived as virtual purposive agents, and have moral rights and obligations similar to those of their real counterparts.
•  Develop guidelines on data security, privacy, and rights and consumer protection in the Metaverse.
•  Develop guidelines to mitigate physical and mental health impacts of the Metaverse.
•  Develop guidelines on informed consent be possible in the Metaverse.
•  Develop guidelines to protect children in the Metaverse.
•  Collaborate to create an equitable, inclusive and truly decentralized Metaverse and maximize the incredible economic and social possibilities and minimize harms.
•  Invite Metaverse creators, artists, innovators, thinkers, governments and to support the mission of the World Metaverse Council.

Signed on the First day of October 2022, at Lake Bled, Slovenia

World Metaverse Council launches at World Future Verse Conference, Lake Bled Slovenia, 1 October 2022

Tadej Slapnik, Chairman of the Organizing Committee for World Future Verse Conference launched the Bled Declaration establishing the World Metaverse Council. The three day conference, the biggest Metaverse conference in Eastern Europe showcased start ups, policy makers, live entertainment companies and game developers and successful early use cases for the potential of the metaverse. With the development of 5G communication technology and XR technology, Metaverse has no space-time constraints and offers endless possibilities.

There is, as yet no world body bringing metaverse developers and creators together globally. In his announcement, he explained “ with the advent of new, borderless, virtual worlds, we want to see the creation of worlds where human beings and their avatars shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want. In founding the World Metaverse Council, we seek to promote the development of friendly relations between Metaverses and to form a common standard for Metaverses everywhere.”

Diego Diego Gutiérrez Zaldívar, CEO & Co-founder @ IOVLabs, Argentina, told the conference, “we are at the early stage of the development of this transformational technology and it is important to strive for an open, transparent, interoperable, decentralized Metaverse accessible to all and to develop guidelines on data security, privacy, and rights and consumer protection, especially of children) in the Metaverse”.

The World Metaverse Council will be open and decentralized and will promote collaboration to create an equitable, inclusive and truly decentralized Metaverse and maximize the incredible economic and social possibilities and minimize harms. A key initiative will be to promote teaching and education on Metaverse accessible globally. I will connect and merge resources, to accelerate the adoption of open, free Metaverses, promoting an open metaverse built on shared open source protocols, open infrastructure, and an open financial system.

Nena Dokuzov, Head of Project Group for New Economy and Blockchain Technologies at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Slovenia concluded, “We invite Metaverse creators, artists, innovators, thinkers, governments and to support the mission of the World Metaverse Council”.

Dr Jane Thomason, Co-founder of the British Blockchain and Frontier Technology Association was at the launch and said “The Metaverse has significant ethical challenges. It has amazing potential, but significant risks,” she says. “ We need an open and inclusive Metaverse with proper safeguards. We are building the future, and should ensure that life in the Metaverse is better and more equitable and inclusive than the world we have now. The World Metaverse Council can provide a platform for leading the dialogue”.

World Metaverse Council invite you to join us at MetaCop27 event on 17Th of November 2022 11-12 h (CET), where will be presented World Metaverse Council.

World Metaverse Council will be presented by its founders Dr jane Thomason, Loretta Joseph, Tadej Slapnik, Pilippe Rixhon and Nena Dokuzov.

To join us, please go to https://distriverse.io/ then choose MetaCop27. Fill in your data, choose you avatar and step in Metaverse.