Barack Obama, Second Life and Innovation?

According to this post, our president elect Barack Obama not only made good use of the Web and social media to raise funds and awareness for his campaign, now he also wants to keep using new technologies to help create “a more open” government that the people can “touch”.

He invited 2 innovators that are very active in Second Life to be part of his “Innovation Agenda” group: IBM’s Irving Wladawsky-Berger and New York Law School professor Beth Noveck .

I wonder what this committee is going to come up with or how (and if) they will influence technology adoption issues (i.e. adoption of Web 2.0 tools in the public school system, funding for programs that involve emerging technologies applied to learning, etc.).

For one thing, let’s see if our RL (real life) economy will prosper as much as SL’s (Second Life)…