The MINDTREK association wishes to support the development of digital media and citizens’ information society-related skills. In the autumn, it arranges a media week in Tampere and provides an award for the year’s best media product.
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| Once again, Mindtrek Conference 2009 offered a wide range of interesting speakers and panels. Social media was discussed by Maria Pienaar, Ido Guy and Teemu Arina. Jyrki Kasvi, member of Finnish parliament, was the patron of the Apps for Democracy Finland competition, but had to step down mid-project due to the emerging Finnish political campaign funding scandal. Otherwise, Rosendahl is a terrific place for conferencing, even though the strange hors d’oeuvres made with ham raised a few eyebrows! | |||
The main prize of 20 009 euros was presented for the MultiTouch display. The winner of the Apps for Democracy Finland competition was Nomen est omen.
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| The MindTrek event has improved over time. At the conference, interesting speeches were made by, among others,Marc Davis from Yahoo and Marko Turpeinen from HIIT. Copyright issues still kept participants occupied with regard to both content producers and users: in the picture, we see Herkko Hietanen and the CC licence. | |||
First prize – 20,008 euros – was won in 2008 by the motion picture production web community Wreck-A-Movie, in which anybody can assemble together a film project with the community providing support. The Star Wreck team functions in the background of the community. The award really hit home for many reasons – among others, the fact that three years ago first prize was not issued for the contending sci-fi parody “Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning” – at the time, the award was won for “Jatkosota 1941-44″ [the Continuation War 1941-44].
Recognition in the MindTrek contest has earlier been given to, for instance Assembly, FogScreen, www.suomi.fi,Helsinki mobile ticketing service and Eilisvisio (in the picture).
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