A Multilingual Virtual Environment for Every-Citizen Learning Communities

Every-citizen learning communities have been intended to provide a virtual environment widely open to large and diverse groups of people who have the will to learn and to share their knowledge with others across the networks. However, the diversity of community members causes language problem in communication and knowledge representation. In this paper, we discuss design issues of the backbone system that enables learning communities really available to every-citizen around the world, by applying software agent technology. We further propose and develop a multilingual virtual environment based on MOO (Multi user dimension Object-Oriented), a so-called text-based social virtual reality, as the backbone for every-citizen learning communities.