Down to the Wire, the digital project that tells the story of New Zealand's Internet, today launches 20:20 Foresight, a national competition for students and graduates designed to inspire brilliant ideas about how the Internet will shape our lives in the year 2020.
Down to the Wire, the digital project that tells the story of New Zealand's Internet, today launches 20:20 Foresight, a national competition for students and graduates designed to inspire brilliant ideas about how the Internet will shape our lives in the year 2020.
The winning entry in each of two age groups (17-to-20 years and 21-to-25 years) will each receive the following prize courtesy of Down to the Wire creator, Heyday.
• an Apple iPad
• a 20-day, $2000 paid internship at Heyday
• a personal website designed, developed and released to the world
20:20 Foresight is a competition designed to explore the future: What will online look like? Will traditional media still exist? How will it change our vision of New Zealand and the world? What new role will the Internet be playing in our lives? And what does hindsight tell us about our (in)ability to forecast what lies ahead – after all, could anyone have predicted what has happened over the last 21 years of the Internet?
The competition calls for entries driven by imagination and insight rather than digital knowledge or technical ability. Project Lead Thomas Scovell says: "Entrants don't need to be coders or geeks. We want ideas from students of all subjects – media, philosophy, design, politics, economics, as well as those on digital and computing courses. Their ideas can be submitted in almost any form – images, film, audio, animation or even just words on paper. It's their ideas and vision that we'll be judging, not the physical qualities of their entry."
The competition is open to anyone aged between 17 and 25 years-of-age who is either currently studying, planning to study, or who has completed a course in New Zealand in the last three years. Winners in the two age groups will enjoy a unique opportunity to gain paid work experience at digital agency Heyday.
Heyday Creative Director Luke Pierson says: "The internships will allow winners to see a digital agency in action and work on their own live digital project. We'll create their personal websites by taking them through our process of insight, ideas, design and delivery. We'll then launch their sites on the Web and they'll be able to show it to their friends on their new Apple iPads. It's a truly fantastic prize and we can't wait to start receiving entries and looking at the ideas."
Full details of 20:20 Foresight can be found at downtothewire.co.nz/2020. Eligible entrants should declare their intention to enter the competition by registering online before 01.01.11. Entries must be submitted by 24.01.11.
Down to the Wire is a project created by digital agency Heyday to celebrate the 21st anniversary of New Zealand's Internet. All content on downtothewire.co.nz is published under a Creative Commons licence.