The category “Digital Communities”, which met with great interest and participation in the last years, will be awarded again by Prix Ars Electronica in 2009. Your project “We magazine” seems relevant to this category and we would like to encourage you and your team to participate with this project in the category “Digital Communities” of this year’s Prix Ars Electronica (or to submit another project of yours that is fitting the criteria).

The Digital Communities category is open to political, social and cultural projects, initiatives, groups and scenes from all over the world that display contentious commitment in coming up with smart, successful ways of deploying digital technologies to solve social problems. Particular emphasis is placed on a project’s degree of community innovation, its sustainability and its use of technology in a way that makes good sense and is attuned to the needs of the people meant to benefit from it. Digital Communities projects should make it easier for people to access technology, networks and the Digital Commons. We explicitely encourage community-related net.art projects to submit.

For a detailed description of the category and about Prix Ars Electronica in general, please see our website:
http://www.aec.at/prix_categories_en.php?cat=Digital%20Communities

Prizes
One Golden Nica with 10,000 Euro, two Awards of Distinction with 5,000 Euro each and up to 12 Honorary Mentions will be awarded by the jury.

The deadline for submissions is March 6, 2009.

Please use
http://www.aec.at/prix_submit_en.php
for your submission and to obtain further details.

If you need any further information or help, please contact
communities@prixars.aec.at

We would be very happy if you could help us “spread the word” in your community by circulating the information as widely as possible. And we would appreciate it if you could help us identify some projects, which in your opinion should participate in the competition. Please nominate them via the website http://www.aec.at/prix_nominate_en.php

Kind regards,

Cornelia Mayrhofer

Cornelia Mayrhofer
Prix ars Electronica 2009 / Digital Communities
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schön, dass WIR nun international wird. Das morphogenetische Feld funktioniert!!

Liebe Grüße
Wolfgang Stalzer

Best, Ulrike

I love your project and guess what.. I am working on something similar called Open Minds. Let´s define the net culture of the future.

Regards and greetings from Lourdes,

Armand

http://radio.rebell.tv/p317.html