[dev] [Fwd: Virtual Entity - nomination prix ars electronica digital communities 2009]

[xname]

Hey hello,
looks like somebody suggested our project for this year's Ars Electronica.
This year Linz is the European city for culture, so everybody is waving.
I have to send back the application in few days (March 30).
If someone on this list is interested in having a look at it, feel free.
Work overload over here :)

2 cents,
xname

>From the website:

"Digital Communities - What are they?

Digital Communities, whether with social or artistic background, give rise
to group action and interaction, engender constructive contexts and social
capital, and promote social innovation as well as cultural and
environmental sustainability. An essential precondition for this is making
the respective relevant technologies and infrastructure more widely
accessible or perhaps even developing them in the first place.

 But access to content and information is also a crucial topic. (there we
are)

Digital Communities take part in efforts to achieve comprehensive human
development, a key aspect of which is reconfiguring the relationship of
power between citizens and political leaders, the state and its
administrative bureaucracy as well as financial and commercial interests
in the sense of increasing participation, strengthening the role of the
civil sector, and establishing a framework for democracy and artistic work
to flourish"

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Subject: Virtual Entity - nomination prix ars electronica digital
communities 2009
From:    "Prixars Communities" <communities at prixars.aec.at>
Date:    Wed, March 25, 2009 7:39 am
To:      info at virtualentity.org
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Hello,



"Virtual Entity" has been nominated in the category "Digital Communities"
and we would like to encourage you and your team to participate with your
project in this year's Prix Ars Electronica.



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.



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
<http://www.aec.at/prix_categories_en.php?cat=Digital%20Communities> 
<http://www.aec.at/en/prix/communities/communities.asp>

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.

Please use the attached document for the submission and send it signed
back to me as soon as possible on march 30th by the latest.

If you need any further information or help, please contact

communities at prixars.aec.at <mailto:communities at prixars.aec.at>



Kind regards,

Cornelia Mayrhofer



Cornelia Mayrhofer
Prix ars Electronica 2009 / Digital Communities
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Ars Electronica Linz GmbH
Hauptstraße 2-4
4040 Linz, Austria,
Telefon: 0043-732-7272-70
Fax: 0043-732-7272-674
E-Mail: communities at prixars.aec.at <mailto:communities at prixars.aec.at>
http://prixars.aec.at <http://prixars.aec.at/>





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