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SXSW Interactive to award five scholarship in essay competition
If the rising price of registering for 2012’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival is a deal-breaker for you, there’s a chance you could write your way into attending.
On Monday, the festival and CauseShift announced the rules for its scholarship program, which will award five badges to essay writers who (in 300 words) best answer the question, “Who is using technology or new media to do the most innovative work for good within their community?”
Essays are due 11:59 p.m. Aug. 26th and must be sent to interwebcontent@sxsw.com with the subject line, “SXSW Interactive Scholarship Program.”
The festival said that this year, those entering need not be limited to people working at nonprofits:
While last year’s scholarship program was limited to nonprofits, this year’s iteration expands its focus to recognize individuals from all sectors and from anywhere in the world who are using new media to push the boundaries of tackling community problems. Nonprofit leaders, grassroots organizers, individual citizens and civic-minded entrepreneurs are all eligible.
For more details, CauseShift visit the scholarship page on the official site.
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By Jane Fleming
August 10, 2011 1:50 AM | Link to this
What a splendid program, found this via AssetManagerment on Twitter. Just the program we need in London right now, rewarding the "digital aware" Flaneur who is working with the young misbehaving who have tagged on to the thieves and looters.
Also something that might be mentioned in all seriousness to the London School of Economics who run such study schemes. It is of course "Digital Humanities".