Title: Exploring the Potential of Citiverses for Regulatory Learning Show Chinese title

Title: 探索虚拟世界在监管学习中的潜力

Abstract: Citiverses hold the potential to support regulatory learning by offering immersive, virtual environments for experimenting with policy scenarios and technologies. This paper proposes a science-for-policy agenda to explore the potential of citiverses as experimentation spaces for regulatory learning, grounded in a consultation with a high-level panel of experts, including policymakers from the European Commission, national government science advisers and leading researchers in digital regulation and virtual worlds. It identifies key research areas, including scalability, real-time feedback, complexity modelling, cross-border collaboration, risk reduction, citizen participation, ethical considerations and the integration of emerging technologies. In addition, the paper analyses a set of experimental topics, spanning transportation, urban planning and the environment/climate crisis, that could be tested in citiverse platforms to advance regulatory learning in these areas. The proposed work is designed to inform future research for policy and emphasizes a responsible approach to developing and using citiverses. It prioritizes careful consideration of the ethical, economic, ecological and social dimensions of different regulations. The paper also explores essential preliminary steps necessary for integrating citiverses into the broader ecosystems of experimentation spaces, including test beds, living labs and regulatory sandboxes Show Chinese abstract

Abstract: 城市虚拟世界有可能通过提供沉浸式的虚拟环境，支持监管学习，以便于对政策情景和技术进行实验。 本文提出了一项政策科学议程，以探索城市虚拟世界作为监管学习实验空间的潜力，该议程基于与高级专家小组的咨询，包括欧洲委员会的政策制定者、国家政府科学顾问以及数字监管和虚拟世界领域的领先研究人员。 它确定了关键的研究领域，包括可扩展性、实时反馈、复杂性建模、跨境合作、风险降低、公民参与、伦理考虑以及新兴技术的整合。 此外，本文分析了一组实验主题，涵盖交通、城市规划和环境/气候危机等领域，这些主题可以在城市虚拟世界平台中进行测试，以推动这些领域的监管学习。 所提出的这项工作旨在为未来的政策研究提供信息，并强调在开发和使用城市虚拟世界时采取负责任的方法。 它优先考虑对不同法规的伦理、经济、生态和社会维度进行仔细考虑。 本文还探讨了将城市虚拟世界整合到更广泛的实验空间生态系统中所需的必要初步步骤，包括试验床、生活实验室和监管沙盒。