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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year |
4th Edition of Digital Christmas Competition
Iwith.org is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to promote the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) as a tool of Solidarity and improvement of society.
Iwith.org helps non profit organisations of 4 continents so they can communicate and work better through their websites with the best technological solutions.
For the fourth consecutive year, Iwith.org calls for the Digital Solidarity Christmas Design Competition, open to everybody who wants to collaborate with this solidarity cause.
Requirements of competition
1. Candidates without age or residence limit are invited to participate, sending a maximum of 3 original and new designs, non awarded in other competitions. Iwith.org doesn’t take responsibility of the veracity of the data: the authors that present their card to the competition are the only responsible for its authenticity and originality.
2. Subject: We will accept and select works whose main motif is one of the following:
* NGO’s action and Third Sector organizations
* Results of solidarity actions
* Christmas
* New Technologies
* Forgotten conflicts
Any works whose contents act against human principles and values, or whom jury can consider them offensive will not be accepted.
3. Free style and format. You can use any photo or image software (Photoshop, Gimp, Paint, …) or draw a card and scan it. We will accept Flash cards and animated gifs (under 70 Kb). Iwith.org reserves the right to touch up or adapt postcards. We recommend 350x350 pixels resolution.
4. For this competition, authors can freely take images from Iwith.org’s public album, available at http://www.iwith.org/album
5. Designs are to be sent to Iwith.org through the form available at the website. The data transmission is made by a secure server. Works sent without any author’s data can be rejected by the jury. Designers related with Universities, Colleges or Non Profit Organizations will specify such link in the form to give the corresponding distinction from their entities.
6. A jury formed by Iwith.org members and participants, will value creativity, adaptation and message of the posted works. Iwith.org is entitled to declare the competition void if appropriate.
7. The selected authors accept to grant publishing rights regardless of the format or media to Iwith.org and accept that Iwith.org includes a solidary message, as well as an invitation to support Iwith.org’s activities.
8. The selected card’s authors:
* Will see their creation published in Iwith.org’s website with its authorship recognition as well as the University, College or NGO related.
* Will be designated Iwith.org’s members for 2008.
* Will participate in Iwith.org’s online calendar campaign 2008
* Will be candidates to the “Iwith.org 2007 Design” prize and “The most sent digital card” prize.
9. “Iwith.org 2007 card” prize: The jury will choose the best design among all received cards. The winner will receive a prize consisting of:
* An Iwith.org T-shirt
* the publication at Iwith.org’s website of an interview about his/her collaboration, with the corresponding recognition of the University, College or NGO to which belongs.
10. “The most sent card”prize: The author whose card has been sent more times until 15th January:
* will receive a Iwith.org’s polo
* will be interviewed for an article that will be published in Iwith.org’s website.
11. Deadline to send works is 10th December 2007. The jury will communicate the selected works on 15th December 2007.
To all participants: good luck and thank you for your collaboration! |
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