[gir-l] (Fwd) FW: [km4dev-l] Digital Communities Award Competition

[Uwe Matzat]

Ich hoffe, dass dies fuer Deutschland nicht zu exotisch ist. Aber 
vielleicht hat ja der ein oder andere gir-l-subscriber Interesse oder 
ist selber aktiver Betreiber einer Online-Gruppe/-Gemeinschaft.

Viele Gruesse,
Uwe
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Details at: http://www.aec.at/en/prix/communities/communities.asp
There have to be some great examples from within this community!!!

>From the website:

DIGITAL COMMUNITIES 

To mark its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2004, Ars Electronica, in 
cooperation with SAP, has expanded its international competition 
for cyberarts to include a new category called "Digital 
Communities." To match the large number and broad spectrum of 
projects as well as the diversity of protagonists active in the field of 
"Digital Communities," two Golden Nicas will be bestowed in this 
new category focusing on works of great sociopolitical 
relevance."Digital Communities" encompasses the wide-ranging 
social consequences of the Internet as well as the latest 
developments in the domain of mobile communications and 
wireless networks. "Digital Communities" will spotlight bold and 
inspired innovations impacting human coexistence, bridging the 
digital divide regarding gender as well as geography, or creating 
outstanding social software and enhancing accessibility of 
technological-social infrastructure. This new category will 
showcase the political potential of digital and networked systems 
and is thus designed as a forum for a broad spectrum of projects, 
programs, initiatives and phenomena in which social innovation is 
taking place, as it were, in real time.  

Digital Communities-What are They? The "Digital Communities" 
category is distinct as it recognizes the contribution to improving 
lives of human beings all over the world using digital and networked 
technologies. Diminishing the "digital divide," nurturing "emergent 
democracy" and enabling people to take full advantage of their 
rights and freedoms are among the aims we are striving to achieve. 
Digital Communities give rise to group action and interaction, 
engender constructive contexts and social capital, and promote 
social innovation. 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. 
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 to flourish.  


Additionally, if any of you have examples of such communities, 
Howard Rheingold is looking for some exemplars to help spread 
the word. See http://www.smartmobs.com/archives/002292.html  


Nancy White - Full Circle Associates - http://www.fullcirc.com
<http://www.fullcirc.com/>  - 206-517-4754

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