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Acknowledgements

This Executive Briefing has been researched and written by Cristina Bueti, Yining Zhao and
Nicholas Flack (ITU).

The authors would like to thank Bilel Jamoussi, Jin Cui, Nancy Sundberg, Youlia Lozanova, Philippa
Biggs, Ursula Wynhoven, Bohan Leng and Simao Campos (ITU) for their input and comments.

The authors also wish to thank the Management Team of the ITU Focus Group on metaverse
(FG-MV) and its Working Groups and Task Groups Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen including: Shin-
Gak Kang (ETRI, Rep. of Korea), Andrey Perez (Brazil), Hideo Imanaka (NICT, Japan), Per Fröjdh
(Ericsson, Sweden), Shane He (Nokia, Finland), Vincent Affleck (United Kingdom), Yuntao Wang
(China), Leonidas Anthopoulos (University of Thessaly, Greece), Manuel Barreiro (Aston Group,
Mexico), Cristina Martinez (European Commission), Stella Kipsaita (Communications Authority,
Kenya), Natalia Bayona (World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)), Younghwan Choi (ETRI, Rep.
of Korea), Xiaomi An (Remin University of China, China), Ismael Arribas (Spain), James Kunle
Olorundare (Nigeria), Zekun Wang (China Telecom), Marcelo Moreno (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany),
Hideki Yamamoto (OKI, Japan), Yuan Zhang (China Telecom), Wilmer Azurza Neyra (Ministry of
Transport and Communications of the Administration, Peru), Wook Hyun (ETRI, Rep. of Korea),
Naying Hu (CAICT, China), Radia Funna (Build n Blaze), Muhammad Khurram (King Saud University,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), Okan Geray (Digital Dubai, United Arab Emirates), Ahmed Said (Egypt),
Nevine Tewfik (Egypt), Christina Yan Zhang (The Metaverse Institute), Khaled Koubaa (Medeverse),
and Shuguang Qi (CAICT, China) for their assistance and contributions.

The technical coordination for this Executive Briefing was conducted by Cristina Bueti (ITU) and
Natalia Bayona (UNWTO).

Additional information and material related to this Executive Briefing are available at: www .itu .int/
metaverse. If you would like to provide any additional information, please contact Cristina Bueti
(ITU) at: tsbfgmv@ itu .int.

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