{"id":361455,"date":"2021-11-02T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/we-are-building-for-the-metaverse-says-meta-vp-nick-clegg\/"},"modified":"2021-11-02T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:45:00","slug":"we-are-building-for-the-metaverse-says-meta-vp-nick-clegg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/we-are-building-for-the-metaverse-says-meta-vp-nick-clegg\/","title":{"rendered":"# \u201cWe are building for the metaverse\u201d says Meta VP, Nick Clegg"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# \u201cWe are building for the metaverse\u201d says Meta VP, Nick Clegg <\/strong>”
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Nick Clegg, Vice\u2011President for Global Affairs and Communications at Meta Platforms, spoke<\/a> at Lisbon\u2019s Web Summit 2021 during a panel on Facebook<\/a> and innovation in Europe.<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s biggest tech conference has returned to a physical setting following a two-year, Covid-induced virtual hiatus. The event is showcasing an illustrious list of entrepreneurs, organizations and influencers at the cutting-edge of their respective fields and has \u2014 according to recent data compiled by the Web Summit communications team \u2014 attracted 42,751 attendees from 128 countries, 50.5% of which are female, the highest ever participation in the ten-year event\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

Interviewed by Matthew Garrahan, News<\/a> Editor at the Financial Times, Clegg spoke with a sense of joviality and expressiveness in his panel, sharing a number of notable insights in the development and intended execution of Facebook\u2019s new Meta project.<\/p>\n

Clegg shared his personal belief of the importance that \u201cwe [Meta] were as open as possible and that we are not seeking to build the metaverse on our own. We are building for the metaverse\u201d, before continuing on to say:<\/p>\n

“The metaverse, I think many people might be relieved to know, is not going to be holy-owned, administered and orchestrated by Mark Zuckerberg and Meta.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Related: Sorare CEO shares bold vision on NFTs during Web Summit 2021 opening night<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The former British politician, who served as leader of the Liberal Democratic party between 2007 and 2015 and deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a coalition government alongside David Cameron between 2010 and 2015, is most often considered an orange book liberal whose political inclinations align with choice and freedom in personal life and the economic market. <\/p>\n

He shared a remark which stressed the cruciality of fostering collaboration the pursuement of technological evolution:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was important for us to get out there as early as possible, and say the unlike previous technological eruptions which happ<\/a>ened very suddenly and then, if you like, society, regulation and law breathlessly try to catch up later \u2014 which is perhaps part of the debate we\u2019re having in the wake of the issues that Frances Haugen has brought to light \u2014 that this time we can do it the other way round.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Facebook\u2019s corporate pivot into the metaverse market at Facebook\u2019s Connect conference on Oct. 28 places them amongst blockchain platforms Axie Infinity, Decentraland and The Sandbox in building the architecture of virtual worlds for people to work, socialize and co-exist with the integration of nonfungible tokens (NFT\u2019s) and other facets of the crypto sphere. <\/p>\n