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The protest UNI orchestrated in Second Life in September 2007, has been short-listed as one of the top 10 world-wide award-winning projects, which are judged on their originality, impact and exemplarily, by the NetXplorateur Forum in France.

About the protest

The event was the first ever of its kind to take place in a virtual world. It involved almost 2'000 participants, who occupied IBM's islands in Second Life for 12 hours in a row.

The virtual protest lead to a Real Life success: the Italian IBM CEO resigned shortly after it took place and the negotiations reopened with the RSU union. 9'000 IBM workers were finally granted a fair agreement.

http://www.uniglobalunion.org/secondlife

About the NetXplorateur Forum:

Because innovation is driven by digital culture, on February 14th & 15th, 2008, 400 leading French political, business and media figures will attend the Netxplorateur Forum at the Senate to explore the opportunities the Web is opening up. The Netxplorateur Forum will enable decision-makers in politics and business to grasp the Net generation's culture and how it is transforming our institutions' and companies' governance and management principles.



The Forum's NetXplorateur 100 awards:

The Forum presents the digital world's most promising pioneers form the first Netxplorateur 100 contest.

At the moment, UNI's protest in Second Life is in the top 10. Many other interesting projects are in competition - to find out more, click here:

http://www.netxplorateur.org/Net100.php

and on the French Le Point website: http://www.lepoint.fr/slideshow/tech_net/view_slide.html?id=785&pageroffset=0



When will we know who won?

The news will be released on February 14th in the evening, so stay tuned!