SuMa Awards 2011
The SuMa Awards encourage projects that address the future of digital knowledge: New ideas, new perspectives and insights, representations, codes, flows of information and knowledge, which haven't been around before. Our goal is to encourage public debate about the importance of our information environment for the future development of society. This year, the Awards have been presented for the fourth time. They were handed over to the winners at the SuMa Congress 2011, hosted by SuMa-eV, on 28 September, 2011 in Berlin.
And the winners are:
- Liquid Democracy: online software for debates and voting in large organisations (used e.g. by the Pirate Party). For our digital democracy - http://liquidfeedback.org
- Open Access text book L3T: a good example how to produce academic literature in the future – collaborative, with the community and accessible for everyone – http://l3t.eu
- Was hab' ich: Medicine students translate your doctor's diagnosis into understandable language, for free. Valuable project by engaged students that shows how access to information on the internet can be useful for everyone – http://washabich.de
Beside these Awards, endowed with 2.000,- EUR each, the jury has presented one special Award to:
- Internship database produced by class IT09A of the Joseph-DuMont-Berufskollegs Cologne. Important information accessible for everyone via database technology - http://sbl-koeln.lima-city.de/
The following five projects were also nominated for the SuMa Awards 2011, before the final decision was made:
- Dooble: an Open Source Webbrowser with exceptional privacy features - http://dooble.sf.net/
- Ghostery: the Firefox-Plugin that renders otherwise invisible data gathering visible and allows blocking it – http://www.ghostery.com/
- NEEO - Network of EuropeanEconomists Online: a EU-sponsored Project to make publications freely accessible according to Open Access principles - http://neeoproject.eu
- Open Access videos: instructive videos for political education - http://tinyurl.com/33txlk4
- Speicher art project. Our world consists of many closed information spaces. The project visualises how these islands can be brought together - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=231N8iIKsh8
SuMa-eV would like to thank our sponsors who made the Awards possible by the generous donations.
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