TAMK Art and Media OLD BLOG -2019

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Finnish World Summit Award Winners: BlindSquare and Kinetic Stories

The World Summit Award (WSA) jury has chosen the best digital media applications in 2013. BlindSquare by MIPsoft is a winner in “e-Inclusion & Empowerment” while Kinetic Stories by Delicode wins in the “e-Entertainment & Games” category.

BlindSquare is a new solution that combines the latest technology to improve the daily life of the blind and visually impaired. Kinetic Stories is a series of storybooks that mix traditional storytelling with the latest developments in motion tracking and speech recognition technology.

Kinetic Stories

The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global activity to select and promote the world's best e-Content and most innovative ICT applications. WSA was initiated in 2003 in the framework of the United Nations' World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and is organised by a global partner network, coordinated by the International Centre for New Media. WSA partners come from governments, private sector and civil society in over 160 UN member states.
Five winners are selected in each of the eight award categories.

"We value a win in the WSA due to its prestige, ideological background and the expertise of its multicultural jury. This win strengthens our belief in that Kinetic Stories brings something new to the everlasting tradition of storytelling" says Julius Tuomisto, CEO of Delicode.

BlindSquare

"Winning this top-notch competition proves that even for a small start-up it is worth to snatch at big challenges" says Ilkka Pirttimaa, CEO of MIPsoft.

The nominees of each country are chosen by the National Expert. Principal Lecturer at Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) and MindTrek Association board member Cai Melakoski is Finnish National Expert. WSA Finland is organised by TAMK and MindTrek.

The award ceremony will take place at the WSA Global Congress in Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka 23 - 26 October 2013.More:
WSA
BlindSquare
Kinetic Stories

All time Finnish World Summit Award winners

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

European Youth Award deadline extended to July 15

European Youth Creates Future using Internet, Mobiles and Social Networks for a live-able future!
Young people around the globe and in Europe use new media to inform about diseases, fight hunger and poverty and promote gender equality and contribute to development and social change.

European Youth Award (EYA) open until July 15
For European youth under 30
Categories: Fight Poverty, Hunger and Disease! | Education for All! | Power 2 Women! | Create your Culture! | Go Green! | Pursue Truth!

If you have a project fitting in one of the categories above go to the EYA web site and register before deadline. You and your team mates might be among the young talents invited to the European Youth Award Festival in Graz November 28-30. And that is not all - EYA registration is also a World Summit Youth Award (WSYA) submission, so you could also get the ticket to WSYA Winners Events in Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 24-26.

Important Information about EYA:
EYA is a Partner Award of the World Summit Youth Award (WSYA).
EYA is open to young people under 30 (born after 1.01. 1983) coming from the European Union members and most other European countries. WSYA is open for people from any of the UN member states.
The registration process for the EYA and WSYA is common, you only need to register your project once!

European Youth Award:
http://eu-youthaward.org/

World Summit Youth Award:
http://www.youthaward.org/

Saturday, 24 November 2012

Student panel: our students are sooo brilliant

European Youth Award Festival, Graz, November 22-25, part of Degree Programme in Media Networked Media Culture Course.

This is the report from the student panel, day three afternoon. Now I have lost control of the chronological order of blog reports from EYA, but this was absolutely fantastic.

We had students from TAMK Media, Lillebelt Academy Odense and University of Vic preparing feedback to all winner teams online over two weeks before the festival. They cooperated on Google Docs, Google Hangout and Facebook to give answers to four questions:

What are the three main qualities making this project stand out?
Which improvements/enhancements do you recommend the team should focus on preparing the next edition of the project?
What did you learn studying this project (topic, design, technical aspect, etc)?
What is the role of this project in achieving the Millennium Development Goals?

The teams then finally met at EYA and presented their analyses and answers afternoon today.

The event was absolutely fabulous! The teams did brilliant work and the winners got an extra reward: deep and useful peer feedback. The atmosphere throughout the session was intense and joyful.

Thank you student teams, thank you moderator professors, thank you winners, thank you session moderators, thank you ICNM team!