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World Summit Award – NZ Nominations

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MINA Nominates Aotearoa Apps for World Summit Award

In May MINA will nominate eight New Zealand mobile applications for the WSA award. MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa [MINA] creates interactions between people, content and the creative industries.

New times bring new challenges. Today, in terms of access, mobile usage has outgrown Internet usage by threefold with more than 6.5 billion connections registered around the world to date. Mobile phones are becoming smarter and revolutionising what can be done with them. We are in the middle of the explosive development of mobile applications and mobile content. As a response to this rapid development and focus change on the content scene worldwide, the WSA has started the WSA-mobile. The new award has been launched in 2010 and is dedicated explicitly to selecting and promoting the world’s best m-Content.

The World Summit Award (WSA) is a global UN-WSIS bi-annual award. It selects and promotes the world’s best e-Content and most innovative ICT applications, be it websites, apps or interactive installations. Initiated by Austria in 2003 in the framework of the United Nations’ World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the WSA implements the UN agenda for the development of the information society. Specifically, it supports the UN Millennium Development Goals and turns the WSIS targets in relation to Action Lines Media and Content into action. The 40 WSA-mobile Winners will be invited to the Winners events (conference, exhibition and gala) to Abu Dhabi. At the events a Jury will also vote on 1 WSA-mobile Global Champion in each category to be announced at the gala. New Zealand winners products will be presented as best content from all UN member states in theWSA Catalogue, which will be distributed to the global partner network.


WSA CATEGORIES

From health to business, from science to inclusion: the eight m-WSA categories reflect most crucial social issues of every-day life around the globe.

  1. m-Government & Open Data
  2. m-Health & Environment
  3. m-Learning & Science
  4. m-Entertainment & Games
  5. m-Culture & Tourism
  6. m-Media & Journalism
  7. m-Business & Commerce
  8. m-Inclusion & Empowerment

Full description on each categories, rules, etc.


NOMINATING AOTEAROA APPS FOR WORLD SUMMIT AWARD

You can nominate through one of the following:

App developers can submit:

  • Name of the application
  • Name of the producer / contact of the producer
  • Email contact of producer
  • URL of the application

Strategic partners for WSA award: MINA, UNIDO, UNESCO, UN Global Alliance for ICT & Development (GAID), Mobile Monday.

Contact Max@mina.pro for further information.
We look forward to hearing from you.

Dr. Max Schleser (co-founder Mobile Innovation Network Aotearoa)

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Mobile Phone Filmmaking Workshop

18 -19 November | Auckland | 9am – 4pm

MINA co-founders, Laurent Antonczak and Max Schleser will be leading a two-day intensive workshop that will give an overview of the many styles and techniques used to create films using a mobile phone. Participants will explore the ideas, scripting, shooting and editing processes to enable them to produce a short film; whether it’s an educational video, experimental film or the next viral hit.

Cost: $75 – $150
Location: AUT City Campus WE402, Level 4, WE Art & Design Building, St Paul Street
Register: https://mobileworkshop2013.eventbrite.co.nz/

Team [ MINA ] and partners

gobandit

3D GPS HD ACTION CAM – Shoot your adrenaline. Map your speed, route, altitude.

Do you brag to your mates about how fast and how hard you were actually going… now you can have PROOF.

Using advanced GPS technology gobandit GPS can record your adrenaline in 3 dimensions. Whether you’re launching off a snowy summit, biking down insanely steep terrain or jumping out of an airplane, the GPS – HD records your adventure every step of the way.

Record video on High Definition with 720P (1280×720) @ 30fps or in Standard Definition (640×480) @ 30fps or choose between 2 and 5sec intervals for taking action photos then see your action on google maps.

›› Visit the gobandit website

Team [ MINA ] and partners

ArtRage

ArtRage is a stylish, intuitive painting and drawing package that makes it easy to produce natural looking artwork on your iPad.

Its wide range of artistic tools lets you get right down to the creative process without forcing you to learn complex or technical controls.

ArtRage was featured in a special demonstration at the MINA Opening Night in the Film Archive and at the MINA Mobile Creativity and Innovation Symposium at Massey University.

 

 

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Mobile Screenfest International 2011

Mobile Screenfest International is the mobile film and photo festival in Australia. Mobile Screenfest International is one of  [ MINA ]’s international partners to showcase innovation in mobile filmmaking. My ip . At the moment Mobile Screenfest International is calling for entries for the Best International Film Award. The deadline is 21 August 2011 and any mobile film can be submitted online at  www.mobilescreenfest.com. There are over $10000 worth of prizes, upload your films today.