[Nettime-nl] Mimoa, Floss Manuals and Images of our Past win Digital Pioneer Academy 2007

[Corline van Es <ce@kl.nl>]

Mimoa, Floss Manuals and Images of our Past win Digital Pioneer  
Academy 2007

Friday morning, the 28th of October, the final session of the Digital  
Pioneer Academy 2007 and the presentation of the ‘Open Doors’  
publication took place. The meeting was held at  PICNIC Cross Media  
Week in Amsterdam on Friday 28 September 2007 between 09.00 en 12.00  
in ‘Het Ketelhuis’ Amsterdam.

Digital Pioneer Academy
Since April 2007 eleven contestants have been working on their  
Digital Pioneer Businessplan. During this event, the contestants  
presented their plans to a group of experts and competed for three  
prizes (one of € 25.000, one of € 15.000 and one of € 10.000).

The Academy is a spin off from the Digital Pioneer fund. This fund  
gives financial and organizational support to small grass root  
communities that realize innovative projects in the public domain on  
the Internet.

Many of the more than 130 projects that are supported by Digital  
Pioneers have a common problem: after a successful start, projects  
have a hard time to scale up their initiative and to build a sound  
financial and organizational basis. Therefore the Digital Pioneer  
Academy was started.

The following eleven projects competed in this years Academy: Beelden  
uit het verleden, Clip-in, Radio Ruisriet, Haidoe, Wizzi, Routecraft,  
Rnul, Coonda, Floss, MIMOA and Mail de politiek.

The winners
Mimoa
The first prize, which consisted of 25.000 euro, was earned by  
www.Mimoa.eu. Mimoa is an Internet platform for modern architecture  
in Europe. Mimoa is owned and developed by Naomi Schiphorst and Mieke  
Vullings. Both are architects and proud of the Dutch tradition in  
this area. The jury praised the project on its strong focus on a  
niche market, its thorough analysis of its users groups, and its  
overall appeal. The jury has great trust in the growth potential of  
Mimoa.

Floss Manuals
The second prize (15.000 euro) has been won by Adam Hyde with Floss  
Manuals (www.flossmanuals.net) . The platform of Floss Manuals offers  
free manuals for open source software. Adam managed to build a  
convincing business model around his project. The jury praised its  
built up network with Wikipedia and O’Reilly. Adam breathes Floss,  
and is very dedicated to its success.

Beelden uit ons Verleden
The third prize went to Beelden uit ons Verleden (Images from our  
Past website is not online yet). This project aims to become the  
national collection of private visual and audiovisual archival  
material. Initiators Carla Mulder and Jan Gilliam van Arkel were  
praised for their research on the subject and their ability to prove  
the social relevance.

More information on Digitale Pionieers and the Digital Pioneer  
Academy you can find on www.digitalepioniers.nl/ www.digitalpioneers.org

Corline van Es


Kennisland | Knowledgeland
T: +31.20.575.6720 | M: +31.6.26 122 968
www.kennisland.nl <http://www.kennisland.nl/> | www.knowledgeland.org
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Corline van Es

Kennisland | Knowledgeland
T: +31.20.575.6720 | M: +31.6.26 122 968
www.kennisland.nl <http://www.kennisland.nl/> | www.knowledgeland.org
<http://www.knowledgeland.org/>




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