Winners of the SuMa Awards 2011
Liquid Feedback: online software for debates and voting in large organisations (used e.g. by the Pirate Party). For our digital democracy.
Open Access text book L3T: a good example how to produce academic literature in the future – collaborative, with the community and accessible for everyone.
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
This year’s special price goes to:
The Internship database produced by class IT09A of the Joseph-DuMont-Berufskollegs Cologne. Important information accessible for everyone via database technology. An example to follow.
Winners of the SuMa Awards 2010
The OpenGovernment search engine "NewsClub im Bundestag" lets user search the full text of the speeches held in the German parliament. It thus renders these speeches much more accesible to the public and contributes significantly to making politics more transparent.
The online dictionary Linguee uses a novel approach to translation: it searches 100 million translated online texts for words and phrases, thereby providing results with much higher quality. Such a tool is especially important in a European context with its confusion of tongues.
The impressive PhD thesis "Sociotechnical practices of communicating medical knowledge via the web and their epistemic implications" traces the communication of medical knowledge on the web from a scientific, epistemological perspective. It shows how intemediaries like Google impact our ways of dealing with knowledge. (Download | Further information)
Two special awards went to:
The scientific search engine BASE because of its extraordinary acconplishments in indexing OpenAccess documents.
The satire "Google Home View" by Martin Sonneborn, because of the remarkable way it portrays the vanishing of privacy
Winners of the SuMa Awards 2009
Technology
eyePlorer by vionto GmbHeyePlorer is a next generation search engine, a visual and semantic knowledge machine. It provides innovative, interactive, visual methods of working with and discovering facts and information instead of wading through ever longer lists of documents and search results.
Access to information in non-industrialised countries
The "Freedombox Search Project" in Afghanistan, submitted by Mario BehlingThe aim of the project is to provide fast, easy and cheap search infrastructures for public knowledge repositories in areas with limited Internet access. The system is currently being tested as part of the One Laptop per Child initiative in a school in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
Media Art
neocer von Marc Löhe und Pascal BoveeThe project neocer describes a future which encompasses much more subtle means of global domination than described in the famous novel "1984". The fictive company develops a technology which makes it possible to connect the brain directly to the Internet. Is this going to be a major technological breakthrough for the benefit of mankind or simply a nightmare? It is up to the audience to decide...
Winners of the SuMa Awards 2008
Technology
www.opportuno.de by Michael and Andreas Bogen
Media Art
oamos.com by Marc Lee
Music
"Das Lied vom Datenkraken" by the FunPunk band "Die Betakteten"