The Award-Winning Metaverse Project That's Saving a Nation

Tara Ford, CCO of The Monkeys, on 'The First Digital Nation' being named Innovation winner at The Gerety Awards

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With a population of about 12,000, the nine islands of Tuvalu sit in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia. But for how much longer?

As a low-lying country, it is under severe threat from climate change and rising sea levels, which could see it become uninhabitable over the next century.

To preserve the sovereignty of the nation, it turned to digital innovation and worked with Accenture Song. The resulting metaverse solution, “The First Digital Nation,” won the Titanium Grand Prix at Cannes Lions and has now picked up the main Innovation prize at the Gerety

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