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Prix Ars Electronica 2004 Digital Communities

To mark its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2004, Ars Electronica, in cooperation with SAP, has expanded its international competition for cyberarts to include a new category called "Digital Communities." To match the large number and broad spectrum of projects as well as the diversity of protagonists active in the field of "Digital Communities," two Golden Nicas will be bestowed in this new category focusing on worksof great sociopolitical relevance."Digital Communities" encompasses the wide- ranging social consequences of the Internet as well as the latest developments in the domain of mobile communications and wireless networks. "Digital Communities" will spotlight bold and inspired innovations impacting human coexistence, bridging the digital divide regarding gender as well as geography, or creating outstanding social software and enhancing accessibility of technological-social infrastructure. This new category will showcase the political potential of digital and networked systems and is thus designed as a forum for a broad spectrum of projects, programs, initiatives and phenomenain which social innovation is taking place, as it were, in real time.

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