A great story from Underwire, suggesting how virtual worlds and, for that matter, contests, can enable positive social change:
"Frustrated with the lack of movement and community involvement with a plan to build a new garden in the central Halles area of Paris, local residents started a competition within Second Life to come up with possible designs for the real world location. While the association knows that the winning design (whose creator won 275,000 Linden dollars) won't be implemented because it doesn't consider real world conditions, they're hoping the competition will put pressure on the mayor to move this project along. It's been in talks since 2004."
Imagine if SL had existed a few years ago, while closed-door groups were debating what to do with Ground Zero...
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