IBM “World is Our Lab” Photo Competition
Course(s) Offered: Photography
Course Level: Competition
Provider: IBM, iHub, A24Media, Mutua Matheka
Country to Compete in: Africa
Scholarship Description
IBM inward collaboration amongst iHub, A24Media as well as independent lensman Mutua Matheka hereby invites applications for “The World is Our Lab” photograph competition.
Aimed at photographers of all abilities, the competitor aims to capture Africa through its numerous challenges as well as opportunities through your lenses.
Photographers of all levels as well as abilities, whether using a photographic boob tube camera telephone or a professional person camera, are encouraged to participate.
Eligibility
Participants must cause got the ownership rights to the entries they submit as well as warrant past times submission that they handgrip these rights.
While the competitor is opened upward to IBM employees as well as contractors, they volition non live on eligible for prizes.
To live on eligible for prizes, participants must reside inward Africa, cause got a valid passport as well as live on available to go to Nairobi, Republic of Kenya for 8 days earlier Feb 28th 2014.
Eligible groups
Citizens of ANY African country
Participating Institutions
IBM, iHub, A24Media as well as Mutua Matheka
Fields of Study
Whether you lot purpose a photographic boob tube camera telephone or professional person camera, capture as well as homecoming master copy images that best define i or to a greater extent than of the next iii categories:
Winners volition emerge from the 3 dissimilar categories
Scholarship benefits
The winners of each category volition live on selected to have the grand prizes for each category which include:
IBM volition render whatsoever necessary written invitations for the winners to apply for a visa to go into Kenya.
Winners to brand whatsoever necessary visa applications inward their ain fourth dimension as well as at their ain expense.
No choice cash prizes are available.
Winners selected to go to Nairobi volition deed equally IBM lensman for the 24-hour interval should concur to render IBM, costless of whatsoever additional charge, a choice of at to the lowest degree fifty images documenting IBM Research – Africa. The photographers concur to transcend the ownership rights of these photos to IBM inward telephone substitution for the competitor prizes.
Method of Application
How tin you lot bring part?
All entries must live on received past times Fri 31 January, 2014 (no entries accepted later this date).
PLEASE NOTE:
Entries volition live on judged past times a panel of experts from IBM, A24 Media, iHub as well as independent lensman Mutua Matheka.
The conclusion of the judges is finally as well as no correspondence volition live on entered into.
Winners volition live on notified past times telephone or email.
The iii winners volition have a Lenovo T440 laptop amongst photograph editing software as well as an all-expense-paid trip to Nairobi, Republic of Kenya (from whatsoever African upper-case missive of the alphabet city) where they volition see IBM’s novel query lab, have a personal tour of iHub’s amazing Innovation Hub as well as practise goodness from a photography workshop amongst i of Africa’s most exciting immature photographers Mutua Matheka.
In the trial that a resident of Republic of Kenya is a top entry hence they volition have a 3-day trip for ii people to the beautiful Hemingways Hotel Watamu instead of the trip to Nairobi.
By participating inward the competition, participants concur for their entries to live on reproduced, displayed as well as printed past times IBM as well as its partners inward ‘The World is Our Lab’ project.
IBM reserves the correct to take whatsoever inappropriate or irrelevant photos from the ‘The World is Our Lab’ website.
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational applied scientific discipline as well as consulting corporation, amongst headquarters inward Armonk, New York, United States.
IBM is committed to creating a various environs as well as is proud to live on an equal chance employer. All qualified applicants volition have consideration for job without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex identity or expression, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Application Deadline: 31 Jan 2014
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Africans)
More Scholarship Information as well as Application
Related: IBM Graduate Trainee Programme for Sub-Saharan Africans
Course(s) Offered: Photography
Course Level: Competition
Provider: IBM, iHub, A24Media, Mutua Matheka
Country to Compete in: Africa
Scholarship Description
IBM inward collaboration amongst iHub, A24Media as well as independent lensman Mutua Matheka hereby invites applications for “The World is Our Lab” photograph competition.
Aimed at photographers of all abilities, the competitor aims to capture Africa through its numerous challenges as well as opportunities through your lenses.
Photographers of all levels as well as abilities, whether using a photographic boob tube camera telephone or a professional person camera, are encouraged to participate.
Eligibility
Participants must cause got the ownership rights to the entries they submit as well as warrant past times submission that they handgrip these rights.
While the competitor is opened upward to IBM employees as well as contractors, they volition non live on eligible for prizes.
To live on eligible for prizes, participants must reside inward Africa, cause got a valid passport as well as live on available to go to Nairobi, Republic of Kenya for 8 days earlier Feb 28th 2014.
Eligible groups
Citizens of ANY African country
Participating Institutions
IBM, iHub, A24Media as well as Mutua Matheka
Fields of Study
Whether you lot purpose a photographic boob tube camera telephone or professional person camera, capture as well as homecoming master copy images that best define i or to a greater extent than of the next iii categories:
- African Grand Challenges
What are the grand challenges that postulate to live on addressed for Africa to realize its potential? Is it improved access to nutrient as well as drinkable water? Health services inward places where in that location are less than i doc for over 1,000 people? Is it to a greater extent than universal access to electricity inward cities which electrical flow solely reaches 20% of the population? Is it carry inward cities where travelling ii kilometers tin currently bring over an hr on the roads? Or is it the mightiness to handgrip governments accountable as well as rail their progress?
Share the images that best illustrate your country’s biggest challenges, focus areas as well as opportunities for transformation.
- African City Systems
What systems practise African cities depend on? Infrastructure similar roads, buildings as well as bridges? Organizations as well as systems that larn by a city’s transportation, healthcare, security, government, water, unloose energy services? The systems nosotros purpose to alive as well as communicate – such equally telephones, meshing as well as social media? Or is it the places inward a metropolis where people as well as communities come upward together – such equally markets, rider vehicle stations, town squares as well as sports stadiums? What makes a metropolis smart?
Capture images that define how a metropolis lives as well as breathes.
- African Innovation
What are the solutions that people are putting inward identify across Africa to overcome the challenges of daily life as well as create novel opportunities? New technologies applied to address perennial problems such equally solar panels as well as current of air turbines or onetime technologies given a novel lease of life similar radio used to deliver instruction inward remote regions? The creative ways individuals or communities live, communicate as well as merchandise such equally mobile coin transfer systems, data systems as well as applications? Or is it the low-tech simply effective homemade devices such equally seed planters, marsh gas series lamps as well as shoes made from recycled materials? Do the people as well as solutions of Africa’s novel hi-tech sector signify innovation?
Capture images that define Africa’s innovative as well as creative spirit.
Winners volition emerge from the 3 dissimilar categories
Scholarship benefits
The winners of each category volition live on selected to have the grand prizes for each category which include:
- 1 Lenovo T440 laptop amongst photo-editing software.
- A 3 24-hour interval trip to Nairobi from whatsoever African upper-case missive of the alphabet metropolis amongst full-board accommodation at the stunning Hemmingways Nairobi. Trip to include economy-class homecoming flying to Nairobi, full-board accommodation for 3 nights as well as dry reason transportation inward Nairobi.
IBM volition render whatsoever necessary written invitations for the winners to apply for a visa to go into Kenya.
Winners to brand whatsoever necessary visa applications inward their ain fourth dimension as well as at their ain expense.
No choice cash prizes are available.
Winners selected to go to Nairobi volition deed equally IBM lensman for the 24-hour interval should concur to render IBM, costless of whatsoever additional charge, a choice of at to the lowest degree fifty images documenting IBM Research – Africa. The photographers concur to transcend the ownership rights of these photos to IBM inward telephone substitution for the competitor prizes.
Method of Application
How tin you lot bring part?
- Participants should capture or homecoming master copy images that best define i or to a greater extent than of the competitor categories.
- Participants should upload jpg images (photographs or scans) inward at to the lowest degree 330 DPI resolution via the Upload section.
- Must submit all entries earlier the deadline appointment below.
All entries must live on received past times Fri 31 January, 2014 (no entries accepted later this date).
PLEASE NOTE:
Entries volition live on judged past times a panel of experts from IBM, A24 Media, iHub as well as independent lensman Mutua Matheka.
The conclusion of the judges is finally as well as no correspondence volition live on entered into.
Winners volition live on notified past times telephone or email.
The iii winners volition have a Lenovo T440 laptop amongst photograph editing software as well as an all-expense-paid trip to Nairobi, Republic of Kenya (from whatsoever African upper-case missive of the alphabet city) where they volition see IBM’s novel query lab, have a personal tour of iHub’s amazing Innovation Hub as well as practise goodness from a photography workshop amongst i of Africa’s most exciting immature photographers Mutua Matheka.
In the trial that a resident of Republic of Kenya is a top entry hence they volition have a 3-day trip for ii people to the beautiful Hemingways Hotel Watamu instead of the trip to Nairobi.
By participating inward the competition, participants concur for their entries to live on reproduced, displayed as well as printed past times IBM as well as its partners inward ‘The World is Our Lab’ project.
IBM reserves the correct to take whatsoever inappropriate or irrelevant photos from the ‘The World is Our Lab’ website.
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational applied scientific discipline as well as consulting corporation, amongst headquarters inward Armonk, New York, United States.
IBM is committed to creating a various environs as well as is proud to live on an equal chance employer. All qualified applicants volition have consideration for job without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sex identity or expression, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Application Deadline: 31 Jan 2014
Open to International Applicants: No (ONLY Africans)
More Scholarship Information as well as Application
Related: IBM Graduate Trainee Programme for Sub-Saharan Africans
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