Time for a Mind Mashup: SPARC Announces the Sparky Awards
The Sparky's are a new contest/award from SPARC.
Sharing can also be a vital tool in helping to address complex problems that challenge society - like disease, hunger, global warming, and economic disparity. The sharing of ideas gives us ways to discover, collaborate, and create in unprecedented ways.
This years theme?
Mind Mashup, the theme of the 2007 contest, calls on entrants to illustrate in a short video the importance of sharing ideas and information of all kinds. Mashup is an expression referring to a song, video, Web site or software application that combines content from more than one source.
The SPARC Discovery Awards challenges you to illustrate in a short video presentation what you see as the value of sharing information. Use your imagination to suggest what good comes from bringing down barriers to the free exchange of information.
The Sparky Awards are sponsored by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, who promote the universal benefits of sharing ideas of all kinds.
Rules include
+ Be submitted by December 2, 2007.
+ Examine the theme described above.
+ Be no more than 2 minutes in length.
+ Have been completed between January 1 and December 2, 2007.
+ Be narrated or subtitled in English.
+ Be posted on the Internet and available for public use under a Creative Commons license
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