Visit the Expo Shanghai Online website:
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Visit the Chilean Pavillion at Expo Shanghai Online:
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Expo Shanghai Online is a revolutionary solution to innovate the traditional way of presenting a world exposition. Through touring and experiencing Expo Shanghai Online, visitors can interact with the Organizer and the participants on the Internet to suit their different interests and demands, even if they could not visit the World Expo personally.
Overview
With a history of over 150 years, the World Expo has always been presented through exhibitions and displays in physical pavilions, uniquely featuring a wide and extensive distribution of pavilions, a huge variety of exhibitions and displays, and a long period of running time. Therefore, it is not appropriate for the World Expo to be intensively and continuously live broadcasted via television coverage. With the swift advancement and increasingly popular application of new communication technologies, especially under the influence of internet technology, the wave of information technology is sweeping across every corner of the world, which has brought to the World Expo unprecedented opportunities and challenges. To explore new and innovative ways of presenting the World Expo in an age of information by optimizing the unique advantages of internet technologies, the Organizer will launch a creative program of Expo Shanghai Online in addition to hosting the physical Expo 2010 Shanghai China.
Featuring a joint participation by the Expo Organizer and participants, Expo Shanghai online will present by using internet technologies an online version of Expo 2010 Shanghai China featuring a combination of virtual presentation and reality, thus creating an internet platform enabling alternative experience and real time interaction, in addition to other supportive functions. As an integral part of Expo 2010 Shanghai China, Expo Shanghai Online serves as an introductory channel, supplement and extension to the physical Expo Shanghai.
Significance and Role
As a creative innovation to the traditional way of presenting the World Expo, Expo Shanghai Online enables online visitors to interact with the Organizer and the Participants to satisfy their different needs and personal interest, increases the global coverage of the World Expo, and attracts more visitors to the physical Expo site or provides an opportunity for those who cannot make it to the physical Expo site. In this way, it helps to enhance the international impact of the World Expo by promoting the World Expo concepts and presenting the social, scientific, historic and cultural information concerning the Participant in a wider scope and for a longer period.
The online Expo will enable Expo 2010 Shanghai China to become an everlasting World Expo.
More information: http://en.expo2010.cn/sr/node2292/indexn.htm