The Great NZ Mix & Mash Competition launched

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The Great NZ Mix & Mash Competition launched

The Great NZ Remix & Mashup Competition was launched last night at The Mix & Mash Mini Webstock at City Gallery, Wellington.
The competition, organised by DigitalNZ, NZ On Screen, Creative Commons NZ, Open New Zealand, data.govt.nz, Creative Freedom and the National Library, encourages people to make use of New Zealand digital content and data.

“It’s an opportunity for individuals, teams, and organisations to show what’s possible when New Zealand’s creative talent is let loose to remix and remash open content, mobile phone and online applications and datasets,” says Andy Neale, Programme Manager, DigitalNZ.

The competition has some big-name sponsors such as Google, InternetNZ and Microsoft and entrants stand to win over $30,000 in cash and prizes.

The competition aims to broaden New Zealand support for open and reusable digital
content and data, encourage and reward development that uses Kiwi digital
content and data, and strengthen relationships between digital content and data
producers, software developers and creative communities.

One Remix category is for the best alternate music video created from the selected tracks provided by Flying Nun Records, and also using never-before-released Archive New Zealand film footage. The winner will be decided in part by popular vote using the MusicHy.pe voting tool.

Mashup application competition categories include:
• Best visualisation.
• Best visitor experience using DOC data.
• Best search experience.
• Best open government service.
• Best geo application for mobile.
• Best newbie entry.
• Open category for mashup entries.

Remix competition categories include:
• Best poster advert for ‘the great kiwi summer holiday’.
• Best retake of kiwi cartoons by Brunswick.
• Best alternate music video.
• Best poem inspired by the New Zealand Poet Laureate.
• Best redesign of a teaching resource.
• Best school student entries.
• Open category.

The competition is open to all New Zealand residents.

Lead judges for the competition are Helen Baxter, Managing Directrix of Mohawk Media and XMediaLab mentor, and Nat Torkington, who ran the first web server in New Zealand in 1992 for Victoria University, and started Kiwi Foo Camp (an American-style "unconference") and Open New Zealand, which develops and hosts Internet-based civil society projects.
Entries close 30 November 2010 and winners will be announced 10 December 2010
Remix & Mash online: http://www.mixandmash.org.nz/

Sponsors:
InternetNZ
Microsoft
Google
Boost New Media
Codec
InfoConnect
Department of Conservation
NZ On Air
MusicHype

Competition Partners:
Creative Freedom
Ministry of Education
Summer of Tech
Archives New Zealand
Digital NZ
data.govt.nz
webstock
Open New Zealand
National Library of New Zealand
NZ On Screen
Creative Commons New Zealand

ENDS

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