Thursday, June 19, 2008

Iwith.org summer photos contest, shoot the digital gap

Use your photos to portray the well-known ‘Digital Gap’ and participate in the competition Iwith.org Summer 2008.

Despite its difficulties to arrive, the summer will inevitably arrive and, with it, also the holiday season for most of us. Iwith.org, an international NGO headquartered in Barcelona and Switzerland, is encouraging you to take photos with a purpose and to send them to us by email to participate in the Second edition of the Iwith.org photo competition on the Digital Gap.

The Digital Gap is the distance between people (communities, states, countries...) who use Information Communication Technologies (ICT) as part of their daily life and those who haven’t got any access to these or, even if they do, don’t know how to use them.

The idea of this competition is to try to capture this gap in a photograph to share it with Iwith.org and the internet users that visit their site. Iwith.org believes that “it doesn’t need to be a negative photo or a photo that shows a prejudice against that difference, but simply a photo that portrays the existence of this gap. At Iwith.org we believe that technology and the Internet are tools for development and, therefore, whoever is left outside the ICT is missing out on the opportunity of achieving by himself/herself increased wellbeing”.

Competition rules

1.- The Iwith.org summer photographic competition aims to make people aware of the ‘Digital Gap’ through images captured during the holiday period. The photographers of the selected photos will be considered as members of Iwith.org for a year, until September 2009.

2. Anybody can participate in this competition, without any restriction of age nor residence, presenting a maximum of 3 photos.

3. Subject: we will select photos that help raising awareness about the ‘Digital Gap’.

4. The style and format are free and you can use any image-editing program. Iwith.org reserves the right to adapt images from a resolution of 650 x 450 pixels to 72 dpi for its publication in a virtual gallery.

5. The photographs should be sent through a safe form which can be found on Iwith.org’s website. The pictures presented without any details of the photographer could potentially be discarded by the jury. Iwith.org won’t be held responsible for the accuracy of the data provided by the photographers.

6. The selected photographs will be published on Iwith.org’s virtual gallery under a Creative Commons license, which allows them to be reproduced, as long as the photographer is mentioned, for any non-lucrative activity undertaken by Iwith.org.

7. The title of the photo, the name of the photographer, any comments and the name of the association, NGO or educational centre of provenance will be mentioned in the virtual gallery.

8. The deadline for sending your photos is the 1st September 2008. The photographs will be published from 8th September 2008.

*If you wish to view the photographs that were selected last year, please click here: http://www.iwith.org/album/FotosVerano07

*To send your photos, please click here: http://www.iwith.org/forms/fotos2008